On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:15:12 +0100, Mark Goodge
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:55:03 +0100, Alex Heney put finger to keyboard
and typed:

Just because Mark is male, that does not mean any other males share
his views.

I certainly don't.

If I was renting accommodation and came home to find a stranger in the
house without any warning, I would be holding him until the police
arrived, when I would expect him to be arrested and removed by them.

For the umpteenth time, I am not talking about a situation where there
is "no warning". I'm talking about a situation where the tenant has
informed the landlord that something needs fixing, and therefore has
reasonable grounds to expect that someone will attempt to fix it.

Mark


I said:
I will be surprised if anyone else admits to this "normal" behaviour
of allowing unknown people to enter their house whilst they are not
there for whatever purpose.

and you took exception to it.

Why?

note the word "allowing"

I still believe that "most" people just would not do it.

(there has only been one person other than you who has said that they
would)


It is not normal behaviour for someone to allow unknown people to
enter their house whatever the reason whilst they are not there.

("Unknown" "Unplanned")

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:05:16 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 15:55:04 on
Sun, 20 Jul 2008, judith remarked:
I would never let an unknown person in to my house on his own; I
cannot imagine that any sensible person would do so either.

Are your electricity and gas meters outside?


No - and the relevance is?

In message , at 08:35:05 on
Thu, 24 Jul 2008, judith remarked:
I would never let an unknown person in to my house on his own; I
cannot imagine that any sensible person would do so either.

Are your electricity and gas meters outside?

No - and the relevance is?

Would you let an unknown meter reader into your house on his own (ie
without a friend).

But maybe that's not what you meant. (I was trying to tease out what it
was you actually meant).
--
Roland Perry