The Knock

I like to say 'Hello," Dmitri... just not right now.

Knocking Etiquette seems to be something that's degrading at a fair clip.

Over the last two years or so, I've noticed that virtually anyone knocking on our door does so with a volume and fervor normally seen only in officers serving warrants and angels announcing the End of Days.

And the person knocking in this fashion (usually but not always male) always wants something from me they're not going to pay for -- permission to take hay off the North field, permission to put 100 beehives on our property, permission to shoot deer on our property, or some other goddam thing.

And these knocks always come either before 9 a.m. or after 8 p.m..

So now I just don't answer the door when some dumbass knocks in this fashion because there's nothing in it for me and in any case, learn how to knock, asshole.