Rule #2: there is no law that says you have to answer your door.
You've just been trained to do these things, like Pavlov's dogs.
Rule # 1: Trust no one.
When I feel in the mood, I answer unknown numbers in Chinese. It’s fun for me and it confuses the people that called.
What I wished would happen is to have those call centers burned to the ground and all the workers jailed for at least a decade.
I always look before opening it but I answer the door with my right hand opening it. In my unseen left hand is my Glock 19.
Exactly, I don’t answer call unless they’re from my family and my close friends.
Very few people know how to actually get to my house and that is by design.
Installed a Ring doorbell before winter and my wife loves it because you can see who is there and choose whether or not to answer it or not. We live in Iowa and we were getting lots of canvassers wanting to push their particular candidate.
As children, the majority Americans born in the 1920 and 30s did not have telephones in their homes. Strangers might come to one's door, but they needed to do so formally and respectfully - especially if selling something.
After WWII, telephone adoption obviated the need for personal interaction, but the cultural norms of respect and proper behavior when presenting oneself at someone's home continued - for a while, at least.
My parents (and most Americans) would answer every telephone call, and treat the caller respectfully, expecting similar good faith.
By the end of their lives several years ago, my parents finally learned to hang-up on marketers, foreign voices, potential scammers and all kinds of "disrespectful visitors"
Now most young people simply do not answer their phones.
We have thus seen a full life-cycle of this communications format - and destruction of a social norm.
Back when my grand daughters were very little and just started talking, I used to hand the phone to them whenever I got a nuisance call from a telemarketer or scammer..
I have three ringtones for my phone.
My family or very close friends and if I hear that I know to answer it, if at all possible. At the very least, I check to see who is calling.
The other is for my general contact list. So if that goes off, I check and see who it is first to decide if I want to answer it.
The third is the carrier’s default ringtone and when I hear that, I just ignore it and figure if it’s important, they’ll leave a message. And on rare occasion they do.
But under no circumstances will I answer it from an 800 number or some oddball area code.
Women on the whole are targets for a reason - they’re easily tricked or manipulated on the whole.....
One thing I'll give Gen-Z credit for. They never answer their phones.