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General etiquette, visitors to your home.
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What is the correct etiquette for the following situation?
Your partner invites his/hers friend and their partner over. You feel slightly uneasy around the friends partner because the partner is somewhat sensitive and emotional unstable (in your opinion).
Your partner hasn't returned home, but his/her friends have arrived and you are alerted by the fact by someone. So you look out and see and they are just sitting in their car.
You call your partner and tell him/her that his/her friends have arrived and where he/she is and they say they are on their way.
You don't go to the door because, you are expecting them to ring the door bell, like most people do when they are ready to, announce their presence and come into your home.
You wait about 5-10 mins and call your partner and your partner says "why haven't you let them in" and your reply "because they are sitting in their car".
So you go and wave them in. Now your partner tells you that they complained about the situation to them and they say they saw u in the window.
Do you think the friends, are overreacting? Because in all my years on this planet people do not sit in their cars, when they reach your home and expect you to call them in. What if they were having a domestic or private chat?
What are your opinions please.
Your partner invites his/hers friend and their partner over. You feel slightly uneasy around the friends partner because the partner is somewhat sensitive and emotional unstable (in your opinion).
Your partner hasn't returned home, but his/her friends have arrived and you are alerted by the fact by someone. So you look out and see and they are just sitting in their car.
You call your partner and tell him/her that his/her friends have arrived and where he/she is and they say they are on their way.
You don't go to the door because, you are expecting them to ring the door bell, like most people do when they are ready to, announce their presence and come into your home.
You wait about 5-10 mins and call your partner and your partner says "why haven't you let them in" and your reply "because they are sitting in their car".
So you go and wave them in. Now your partner tells you that they complained about the situation to them and they say they saw u in the window.
Do you think the friends, are overreacting? Because in all my years on this planet people do not sit in their cars, when they reach your home and expect you to call them in. What if they were having a domestic or private chat?
What are your opinions please.
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I certainly would not go outside and usher them in. I am not a doorman.
That was my thought, who comes to someones door and expects them to call them in?
Weird people!
Yes, that's what I'd probably do too
NO! but should of left them their, till he came...lol
Take no notice, is my advice. Maybe they won't come again.
I think they are too. I think I offended the friends partner once and she has held onto it. I only said what I said to stop her force feeding me.
I only ate at her house out of politeness and I didn't want my partner to feel uncomfortable. But the last straw was when she gave me some food and I got home and was sick (only time that happened what when I was pregnant).
Nobody I know anyway.
They sound very high maintenance tbh.
One of our dogs was sat on the garden wall (8 foot high) right next to his car and he was too scared to get out in case the dog jumped onto his head
People who sit outside other people's houses?
People who invite guests round and are then not there when they arrive?
People who have to phone someone for advice because visitors are sitting outside.?
They were waiting for the butler to open the doors and bring umbrellas.
This. If they don't make their own way to the door they are not coming in.:D
For them to complain to your OH about not ushering you in is a bit silly really, most people would have knocked the door as is the normal etiquette! So I wouldn't worry if I was you, now had you ignored their knocking at the door that would have been different but since they didn't bother you're fine.
Nowt as strange as folk.