Woken up at 8am on a Saturday morning?

[Louise_mckenna]

Has anyone else had someone ring on their doorbell around 8am on a Saturday morning recently? For the last two Saturdays our doorbell has gone, but as we live on the top floor we've not bothered to get up, get dressed and answer. We live on Crystal Palace Road, and just wondered if it's someone going door-to-door? The people in the other flat also didn't answer the door, so I know it wasn't someone for them.

I'm not very happy at being woken up this early at the weekend, and I'm hoping it won't happen again this week. If it does, they will be greeted by a very grumpy woman with scary bed hair and no make-up :X

[SeanMacGabhann]

It's usually utility company readers OR Jehova's Witnesses in my experience. I was getting paranoid at one point as they seemed to all bunch up visit-wise (much as you describe) but the went away after a few weeks

[Asset]

postie?

[reetpetite]

postie! at 8am you gotta be kidding.

[Asset]

mine comes then when there's a parcel to deliver

[bigbadwolf]

Don't worry I know exactly what it is as it's been happening in forest hill too. They're Mori poll employees with questionaires. I know because I opened the door to them and closed it about 5 seconds later.

[Asset]

You could put a sign up on the bell saying 'no callers before 10am' (or whenever). Probably be ignored but worth a try.

[reetpetite]

Re parcel....Didnt think of that ,even so you would normaly be expecting one to be delivered so would answer door .no?

[JohnL]

I took about 2 minutes to answer my postie knock - he was halfway down the corridor (flasts) then and wasn't happy with me at all.

reetpetite Wrote:

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> Re parcel....Didnt think of that ,even so you

> would normaly be expecting one to be delivered so

> would answer door .no?

[Cassius]

My postman comes much earlier on a Saturday than he does during the week.

[bigbadwolf]

Cassius we don't want to hear about what you and your postie get up to in the bedroom thank you very much!

[Cassius]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Cassius we don't want to hear about what you and

> your postie get up to in the bedroom thank you

> very much!

Doh!

[Moos]

8am? You lucky, lucky..

Sorry. Carry on.

[????]

What Moos said, I dream for a wake up call at 8am,I'm nearly on my first beer by then.....um, this could turn into a Family Room Vs the Rest

[SeanMacGabhann]

For some reason i took the "lucky" comment to not mean sleep. But that might say more about me

[Asset]

ha ha, I thought that first too Sean

[tommy]

8am is a lie in if you've got kids...

[Louise_mckenna]

I don't have kids, and I cherish my two lie ins a week so really resent being woken up to someone ringing my doorbell at 8am (actually last week it was 7:45)...

[louisiana]

Once upon a time people had signs up that said 'no hawkers' and so forth.

But people have probably forgotten what a hawker is.

[shoshntosh]

what moos said.

[Moos]

Louise, no offence meant - was just joshing with you. Agree that a lie-in is a sacred thing!

[Louise_mckenna]

Oh no its OK, no offence taken Moos :)

[louisiana]

You could always turn it into a blues song :)

[louisiana]

I woke up this morning

There was a postman at my door

He said 'You done gone and gotta letta'

I said 'You're a-having a-me o-on'

[dulwichmum]

I should like to concur with Tommy...