I wish tradesmen gave me more time to answer the doorbell
Oh, I do wish tradesmen would extend just a touch more consideration when calling at the door. One does try to be prompt, of course—but it’s not as if I live in a bungalow, for heaven’s sake. This is a stately home with multiple levels, and I cannot be expected to sprint down from the third floor like Usain Bolt every time the doorbell rings.
I suspect they’re simply not accustomed to homes with such grandeur. Probably used to knocking on the doors of semi-detached dwellings where the lounge doubles as the front hall and the entire household can be traversed in six paces. But really, in a residence such as mine, it takes time to descend with dignity. I refuse to arrive at my own front door panting, especially without my caftan.
A little respect for the domestic architecture, that’s all I ask.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 1, 2025 10:24 AM
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[quote]I suspect they’re simply not accustomed to homes with such grandeur.
I suspect they're simply not accustomed to homes with such grandeur NOT even having a majordomo, let alone a butler.
Quit being cheap, dear. A fancy house is useless without servants.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 31, 2025 7:40 PM
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You answer the door yourself?
The trade entrance?
My my.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 31, 2025 7:50 PM
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0/10 Fail. Get another hobby - stop littering up Datalounge with your bad attempts at humor and attention.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 31, 2025 7:58 PM
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If you have prearranged a time, why aren’t you waiting outside to greet them? I wait outside so I can see who it is that is approaching my home and so that I can direct them to go around to the back.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 31, 2025 8:27 PM
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OP, how do you handle things when a tradie politely requests to use the facilities?
Do you have a separate [italic]salle de bains[/italic] for such awkward occasions?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 31, 2025 8:30 PM
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R5 If they were hot, I would probably hold their dingaling for them.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 31, 2025 8:33 PM
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Direct them to the powder room with the peephole drilled in the wall, r5
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 31, 2025 10:51 PM
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Who taught you proper etiquette, OP?
When it comes to receiving tradesmen, your front door must be open and you should already be waiting for them face down/ass up in the hallway.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 31, 2025 11:35 PM
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They took one look through the glass double doors of you prancing down the staircase in rainbow colored craftans and ran like the wind.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 31, 2025 11:50 PM
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[quote] I cannot be expected to sprint down from the third floor like Usain Bolt every time the doorbell rings.
You could get a ring doorbell.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 1, 2025 1:00 AM
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Will tradesmen bring food?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 1, 2025 1:01 AM
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Always meet a man in the doorway wearing nothing but Chanel No. 5
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 1, 2025 1:04 AM
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R12 I has not even showered yet so I was wearing odor de body.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 1, 2025 1:05 AM
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Perchance your local itinerant tinkers, peddlers and knife-sharpeners have busy days?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 1, 2025 1:17 AM
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By Tradesmen you mean your rent boys?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 1, 2025 2:07 AM
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In my experience with trade they were always eager to get down to business.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 1, 2025 8:34 AM
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This was a 3 AM anonymous glory hole call
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 1, 2025 10:15 AM
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