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In reply to the discussion: How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]noamnety
(20,234 posts)regardless of the position of the sun.
Daylight or not, you don't know if the person there is working a graveyard shift, and you just did the equivalent of waking a person with regular hours at 3am.
You don't know if the person just spent an hour trying to get a crying baby to sleep and is almost in tears in frustration - and your knock or bell ringing just woke the baby up again. (This happened to me with Jehovah's witnesses several times, and decades later I am still resentful.)
You don't know if you are intruding on someone who is ill or injured, who is in physical pain trying to get to the door.
You don't know if the homeowners are in the middle of a discussion about something serious, or tragic - or if they have social anxiety issues, or if a stranger at their door is going to trigger a PTSD issue.
There are just too many ifs to be assuming it's okay to interrupt people in their private space at your convenience to get something you want from them when they haven't solicited your opinion or advice.