Also, since the economy turned south a few years ago, we've gotten more door to door salesman than at any other time in the nearly four decades we've lived in this neighborhood. It's a nuisance and many other neighbors and I do call the police on them and the cops scare them out of town, because they never have a permit.
In our town, it's legal to leave a flyer in the doors with your name and number. Leaflet people's homes the day before a storm and the people will call.
” but having strangers knock on the door can be scary. “
My grandma found driving scary. She never got a license and didn’t like anyone driving. Since driving can be scary, it should be BANNED.
SCARY? If you are going to live your life being afraid of a knock at the door why bother living at all?
Your screen name “old and tired”, I am willing to bet I am just as old and tired. I live alone in the middle of no where (nearest neighbor is 3 miles away), when I get a knock at the door that I don’t expect I answer the door with my dogs and a Ruger 45 caliber Blackhawk.