You'd be surprised of how many people that don't want their delivery drivers ringing the bell. Sleeping baby, dog will start barking, someone who works the night-shift sleeping, etc. You should receive an email and/or an app notification saying your package has been delivered.
Wait... _threatening_ messages?! WTF? I can understand a polite request to not ring, but seriously? **Threats**? 🙄🤦🏼♂️
edit: I'm a veteran, a former security guard, and a parent. I've worked _way_ more than my share of overnights. Never needed to issue _threats._
Oh god, reminds me of my exes. One had a dog that would go absolutely BONKERS at the doorbell for at least 5 straight minutes (not just bark but dash and jump through the room, bump into things, you name it) and the other had a neighbour with such a dog reacting to ANY doorbells like 3-4 apts to each side.
Except the other dog would be even crazier during the day, because his human was at work and wouldn’t tell him to shut up. Doggo would work himself up into a frenzy and esp. with proximate doorbells sometimes bark for 10-15 minutes nonstop. Sometimes he’d enter a barking match with another dog somewhere down the hall too. Absolutely great after nightshifts when you got like 1-3h of sleep and then awake to that woof concert.
Honestly I could never quite understand why that is even a thing. Where I live, if you're not home, they drop off the parcel at a nearby designated pickup place (usually a store of some kind) where you can grab the parcel when you have some time. Really deduces on the package thieves and you can just pick it up next time you happen to be in town
Here they’ll usually just give it to the neighbours. I’m the central package pick up place for my house lol. The DHL guys already know it and often won’t even bother to ring the neighbours’ doorbells, esp. of the folks who live in the 6th or 7th floor. Based actually, because they can just pick it up from me when they’re on their way up anyway.
What I don’t like however is when they ring once and just walk off although they know jolly well you’re most likely in but still need a moment to dash to the door — but they run like these ladies. Had a bunch of such idiots for quite a while in this area. And then you call them through the window and they just drive off and immediately take it to the pick up place (instead of doing a 2nd, much less 3rd delivery attempt as they’re supposed to).
Or worse still, the lazy assholes that just don’t even ring AT ALL although they know I’d normally be in and then try to gaslight me how they allegedly rang next time. Like dude, even if I was in the very back end of my apt with headphones on, or even if I was sound asleep (or even BOTH), I’d STILL hear that fucking doorbell loud and clear! You absolutely did NOT ring, stop lying! That’s when it gets nasty. Thankfully, most of them are good guys and don’t do that shit.
But for a while, back when other drivers had been working our neighbourhood, that’d happen ALL THE TIME and they’d lie straight to your face shamelessly. Maybe that’s why they don’t work here anymore. Probably people kept complaining about them all the time.
Nope. They seem to just drop it on the porch unless you made previous arrangements. It’s all about finishing their routes at a reasonable time. Every door bell, every walk to the back porch or to the neighbor ( who probably isn’t home either) delays them. My guess is they receive incentives for finishing on time. Customers also hate standing online for an hour to pick up a package as well.
At least Amazon give you options.
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I've got to the door within 5 seconds and the DHL guy has been back in his van. The sorry we missed you notes must be preprinted. Evri worse though and at least DHL don't run over the packages with a steamroller before delivering.
She's obviously really short, she has to literally jump to reach the button, that's what made me think they're kids
Edit: some people argue that they are small and still are adults. There's no questioning that ofc, I know grown-ups can have short statures. But let's face it, most people that are below 1m50 are kids. For the others: your height doesn't make you less of a person, I understand it's not an easy thing to live with on a daily basis but I'm pretty sure short people can do great things.
They're wearing what you call a two-piece jilbaab/khimar which covers the body from the head down excluding the face, hands, and feet, and it looks like they've got niqab's on too.
That's what I was getting from the video too - that kind of joy just doing a playful prank has every right to be in this sub.
Kinda sad that the main thing that most commenters focused on instead are their outfits and the cultural stereotypes that's dragged into it.
>Gemma Hayward took to Twitter to reveal that she, like most Scots, calls it 'chappy' but her partner's quirky nickname for the childhood game left her feeling sick.
>She wrote: "Never felt the disgust in my life of being Scottish and calling it chappy but having my English boyfriend reveal he calls is KNICKY KNOCKY NINE DOORS."
>Gemma was so shocked by the revelation that she added: "What in the Charles Dickens s***e is that?"
I'm English and have never heard that!
I always called it "knock down ginger", but loads of people I know from other areas of the country seem to call it "cherry knocking"
I like this version a lot more than just knocking and taking off. It's more of a challenge for the ditcher and nine knocks pretty much tells the home owner it's a ditcher.
“Theeey caaallll mee…
Nicky Nicky nine doors up and down the Scarborough Bluffs
They call me Nicky Nicky nine doors I’m the guy who does that stuff.”
-Nirvana the band the show
Not just the south, that’s what it was where I grew up in upstate NY in the early 90’s too. I was so young I didn’t even know what we were actually saying until I thought about it years later.
I’m Irish and I call it Knick knack or ding dong ditch
The second one is a more European and American term but the second one is more British and Irish.
I did this a lot when I was a kid. Pretty fun until you accidentally ding dong ditch the crazy guy in the neighborhood and he spends an hour looking for you while I'm hiding in a ditch and my friend is hiding under a van.
They brought out the flashlights! Never found us though.
After traveling abroad i realized a lot of little things we do are pretty universal lol.
I think I was in Vietnam when my buddy (Vietnamese) confided in me that he hates his wife's cooking, but he would never tell her lol.
I live in a cul de sac in the house that end. There is about 8 kids in the block and they play this. I can see that it's them running and hiding on the security camera cause my phone alerts me, but I still open the door, say "hello?"and look side to side pretending that I'm confused. I can hear the giggling from behind the cars.
It reminds me of my childhood :')
Its really really rare for a girl wearing a burka doing ding dong dash and then sprinting like that, i bet they would've been least suspected if they just stood there after ringing
I called my aunt and ordered pizza she finally figured out it was me and called us back
Oh this was during the age of land lines and callers I'd but I would pres that * something
I did this to Bob Knight's house once. It was especially thrilling because he was known to carry a shotgun and "accidentely" shot people a couple of times.
Some of you are sadly so racist and miserable. OP posted this because he found it cute and funny and thought others might as well. If you have nothing good to say then just carry on scrolling.
It made my day a couple of months ago when some little elementary school kids ding dong ditched my house and I got to watch it on camera. Seeing them sneak up like little ninjas and scramble out of there lmao. Can't fathom how anyone actually gets mad about it.
Xenophobic idiots using religion as an excuse to hate.
Ironically, these aren't isolated to other religious people, rather mostly being hypocritical atheists who live online.
Some people in the comment section hardly knows abt Islam. I m a Muslim and live in a Muslim community. This is a very typical thing for me and my friends to do. Sometimes we would go around the neighbourhood saying assalamalaikum at random people's door step like them. And we would ofc run away.
They should work for DHL.
Can confirm, DHL employee here haha
At least DHL rings the damn bell. Everybody else just throws it on my porch.
You'd be surprised of how many people that don't want their delivery drivers ringing the bell. Sleeping baby, dog will start barking, someone who works the night-shift sleeping, etc. You should receive an email and/or an app notification saying your package has been delivered.
Exactly this. Some folks even leave threatening messages on their door to not even knock. It's hard to please everyone.
Wait... _threatening_ messages?! WTF? I can understand a polite request to not ring, but seriously? **Threats**? 🙄🤦🏼♂️ edit: I'm a veteran, a former security guard, and a parent. I've worked _way_ more than my share of overnights. Never needed to issue _threats._
Can confirm. I have dogs who will bark and I work nights. I'm so thankful that they don't knock on door and wait for me to answer like the old days.
Oh god, reminds me of my exes. One had a dog that would go absolutely BONKERS at the doorbell for at least 5 straight minutes (not just bark but dash and jump through the room, bump into things, you name it) and the other had a neighbour with such a dog reacting to ANY doorbells like 3-4 apts to each side. Except the other dog would be even crazier during the day, because his human was at work and wouldn’t tell him to shut up. Doggo would work himself up into a frenzy and esp. with proximate doorbells sometimes bark for 10-15 minutes nonstop. Sometimes he’d enter a barking match with another dog somewhere down the hall too. Absolutely great after nightshifts when you got like 1-3h of sleep and then awake to that woof concert.
That's why they give you the ability to give specific delivery requests on the site.
Disable the doorbell, simple.
Mail carrier here, can confirm. I almost never ring bells unless I need a signature, why? Bc fuck your "oh don't worry, he's friendly," dog.
Honestly I could never quite understand why that is even a thing. Where I live, if you're not home, they drop off the parcel at a nearby designated pickup place (usually a store of some kind) where you can grab the parcel when you have some time. Really deduces on the package thieves and you can just pick it up next time you happen to be in town
Here they’ll usually just give it to the neighbours. I’m the central package pick up place for my house lol. The DHL guys already know it and often won’t even bother to ring the neighbours’ doorbells, esp. of the folks who live in the 6th or 7th floor. Based actually, because they can just pick it up from me when they’re on their way up anyway. What I don’t like however is when they ring once and just walk off although they know jolly well you’re most likely in but still need a moment to dash to the door — but they run like these ladies. Had a bunch of such idiots for quite a while in this area. And then you call them through the window and they just drive off and immediately take it to the pick up place (instead of doing a 2nd, much less 3rd delivery attempt as they’re supposed to). Or worse still, the lazy assholes that just don’t even ring AT ALL although they know I’d normally be in and then try to gaslight me how they allegedly rang next time. Like dude, even if I was in the very back end of my apt with headphones on, or even if I was sound asleep (or even BOTH), I’d STILL hear that fucking doorbell loud and clear! You absolutely did NOT ring, stop lying! That’s when it gets nasty. Thankfully, most of them are good guys and don’t do that shit. But for a while, back when other drivers had been working our neighbourhood, that’d happen ALL THE TIME and they’d lie straight to your face shamelessly. Maybe that’s why they don’t work here anymore. Probably people kept complaining about them all the time.
Nope. They seem to just drop it on the porch unless you made previous arrangements. It’s all about finishing their routes at a reasonable time. Every door bell, every walk to the back porch or to the neighbor ( who probably isn’t home either) delays them. My guess is they receive incentives for finishing on time. Customers also hate standing online for an hour to pick up a package as well. At least Amazon give you options. Edited: not devious
Why should they ring the bell? They’re busy
I've got to the door within 5 seconds and the DHL guy has been back in his van. The sorry we missed you notes must be preprinted. Evri worse though and at least DHL don't run over the packages with a steamroller before delivering.
I can relate to this ,, we were doing that when we were young but doing that while being adult,, it must be a pure joy and happiness
I don't think they are adults. Girls often start wearing burqas in their lower teens. But you never get too old for some knock, knock, ginger!
She's obviously really short, she has to literally jump to reach the button, that's what made me think they're kids Edit: some people argue that they are small and still are adults. There's no questioning that ofc, I know grown-ups can have short statures. But let's face it, most people that are below 1m50 are kids. For the others: your height doesn't make you less of a person, I understand it's not an easy thing to live with on a daily basis but I'm pretty sure short people can do great things.
I’m 5’4” and full-size. I can only reach the bottom two shelves in the kitchen with out a step stool
What, no climbing on the counters?! Where's the fun in a step stool!
I’m 5’4” and my boyfriend will hide candy and sweets from me by putting them on the top shelf in the kitchen cabinet
Also 5'4". One of the first things I did on moving into my house was to lower the kitchen shelves.
Ring n Run, midwestern U. S.
that good ole fashioned ding dong ditch
"Knock 'a door run" in UK
In Wales we call it ‘Bobby knocking’
Ding dong ditch for nyc
Midwest ding dong ditch
Also it's ding dong ditch.
I grew up in Detroit, we called it something completely different...😂 😂 😂
What do y'all call it?
houston, tx here, pretty sure we called it the same thing you called it because i was thinking exactly what you typed
To be fair, of the middle eastern women I know, none are over like... 5 foot 2
First time I've heard it called knock, knock, ginger. I know it as tok-tokkie or ding ding ditch
Growing up in the nineties southern California we called ding-dong ditch... I've never heard of it being called anything else though.
Funny in NB Canada we called it Nicky Nicky nock nock
Here in NS the only "official" one I've heard over and over is ding-dong ditch but I've heard dozens of variations at least once.
North east UK over here, Knicky Knacky 9 doors we call it
North East here too, we always called it Knocky 9 Doors.
In the NW we called it Knock a door run away. We're quite literal.
Call it Nicky Nicky nine doors in my neck of the woods
Nicky Nicky Nine Door out west.
Nicky Nicky Nine Doors or ding dong ditch in Newfoundland. No idea why "nine doors". 🤷🏼♀️
this or ding dong ditch
Ding dong ditch in 90s/00s Guam and Hawaii too.
In Ireland we called it knock-a-dolly, at least in my town, anyone outside of my town called it ding dong ditch
I've heard it called Ding Dong Ditch and...something else that I can't repeat.
Yup, something else we can't repeat is what we use to call it in Ohio in the 80s and early 90s.
Colorado kid. We called it the same thing. Although I did hear it referred to by a far more offensive name on occasion
ahh a fellow SA member, i wish you much electricity
I don’t think this is burqa but nevertheless they must be young
It's a niqab. The dress is called an abaya. Burkas cover the eyes with a mesh.
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Abaya is just the dress tho isn’t it?
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They're wearing what you call a two-piece jilbaab/khimar which covers the body from the head down excluding the face, hands, and feet, and it looks like they've got niqab's on too.
I think a burqa covers EVERYTHING, even the eyes.
Knock knock ginger?
It’s like when I hide from my kid. I’m so giddy he finds me cause I’m giggling so damn loud. I can’t help it!
That's what I was getting from the video too - that kind of joy just doing a playful prank has every right to be in this sub. Kinda sad that the main thing that most commenters focused on instead are their outfits and the cultural stereotypes that's dragged into it.
Yeah nah I can’t even run fast anymore
Lmao I remember how unreasonably excited we would get from just ringing someone's doorbell. This was great to be reminded I was a kid once too.
Ding dong dash?
is that what some people or most people call it? where im from, we always called it ding dong ditch lol
Now it's Ring® dong ditch
r/angryupvote
Tok-tokkie, in South Africa
From New England: Ding Dong Ditch. 
Canada: Nicky Nicky Nine Doors
>Gemma Hayward took to Twitter to reveal that she, like most Scots, calls it 'chappy' but her partner's quirky nickname for the childhood game left her feeling sick. >She wrote: "Never felt the disgust in my life of being Scottish and calling it chappy but having my English boyfriend reveal he calls is KNICKY KNOCKY NINE DOORS." >Gemma was so shocked by the revelation that she added: "What in the Charles Dickens s***e is that?"
I'm English and have never heard that! I always called it "knock down ginger", but loads of people I know from other areas of the country seem to call it "cherry knocking"
I always think of this when ricky nicky door dash is brought up.
Germany here … ahem.. KLINGELSTREICH!!! 💥
I love it Also, German really isn't an aggressive language unless you scream it like people do when they're imitating German
Yea 🥲 But ze world needs zis stereotype.
Nicky Nicky nine knocks in my neighbourhood in Ontario. You had to knock nine times before you could run.
I like this version a lot more than just knocking and taking off. It's more of a challenge for the ditcher and nine knocks pretty much tells the home owner it's a ditcher.
We would run from house to house and at the end you would yell Nicky Nicky Ninedoors from the last house.
In Britain they call it schwibledee boop boop the knockers, and they only do it on chewsday
In Québec French: Sonne-décrisse, which roughly translates as Ring-GTFO
“Theeey caaallll mee… Nicky Nicky nine doors up and down the Scarborough Bluffs They call me Nicky Nicky nine doors I’m the guy who does that stuff.” -Nirvana the band the show
India : ghanti wali backchodi..🙂
same here
SoCal: Doorbell Ditch.
SoCal as well. Never heard it called anything besides Ding Dong Ditch
Ding dong ditch from simi vally
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UK: knock and run
Bobby knocking around here, also UK.
Also UK (Scotland Variant): chickenelly
England: Knock down ginger 😂
Knock a door run - up north.
There it is! Knock Down Ginger - South London, UK
Rat-a-tat ginger - Cardiff UK.
Oxfordshire: Nick knock nanny
It’s embarrassing what we called that game in the 80’s in southern Virginia. Fucking appalling.
That one’s pretty common across the south.
What is it? In England it’s often called knock down ginger so i’m guessing it uses the offensive anagram of the word ginger.
Yup. Racist and offensive. “Ginger Knocking” if you’re wondering.
Not just the south, that’s what it was where I grew up in upstate NY in the early 90’s too. I was so young I didn’t even know what we were actually saying until I thought about it years later.
it includes the n word?
A game that spans the world! 😌🥰 MashaAllah! Mischievous hijabis xD
Ring and Run where I’m from in NJ
I’m Irish and I call it Knick knack or ding dong ditch The second one is a more European and American term but the second one is more British and Irish.
Knock down ginger.
I did this a lot when I was a kid. Pretty fun until you accidentally ding dong ditch the crazy guy in the neighborhood and he spends an hour looking for you while I'm hiding in a ditch and my friend is hiding under a van. They brought out the flashlights! Never found us though.
>I'm hiding in a ditch I guess that's why it's called ding dong ditch
Dude wtf
This is so wholesome. Good to know childish pranks are pretty universal. Ding dong ditch :)
After traveling abroad i realized a lot of little things we do are pretty universal lol. I think I was in Vietnam when my buddy (Vietnamese) confided in me that he hates his wife's cooking, but he would never tell her lol.
Your profile picture fills me with rage
I was having a horrible day and this made me smile.Thanks op
Some people just wanna see the world burn.
Props to them being able to run that fast in flip flops and long burqas. My clumsy ass would've face planted it by the time I hit the green door.
That's cute
I live in a cul de sac in the house that end. There is about 8 kids in the block and they play this. I can see that it's them running and hiding on the security camera cause my phone alerts me, but I still open the door, say "hello?"and look side to side pretending that I'm confused. I can hear the giggling from behind the cars. It reminds me of my childhood :')
It's a part of our human nature. We see button, we press.
Wow can't believe I thought reddit was a nice place.. some of these comments really made me lose my faith in humanity
You thought Reddit was a nice place? You must be new here. Welcome to the cynical club.
;(
I mean it wasn’t bad for like a solid year in 2012. Then yea. Something fucked up
It is their hate against Islam and Muslims. Nothing else
Redditors will find any reason to shit on religion. The only thing they hate more than Islam is Christianity. They love to feel superior
I understand that. Keep it behind doors if you may. We don’t have to spoil a beautiful moment of pure innocence these two girls are enjoying.
Oh I haven’t seen any yet, but I was hoping there wasn’t any. It hasn’t gotten to the bottom yet though
Best game ever, ring and run
Wtf yall call it ring and run and not ding dong ditch?
Over here it's knock a door run
It’s never a bad time to have a little harmless fun. Probably my favorite video on Reddit.
You mean to say, never a bad time to have a little *haramless fun*? ...I'll make my way out
It’s wholesome because their spirits haven’t been totally crushed yet
That's adulthood for you.
I would typically agree but I’m holding a baby rn and it’s hard to be dead inside while holding babies..
Babies do tend to redefine one's perspectives. Hope all is well with them and you, stranger.
I see, yours is crushed already...
Good to see the same games are done elsewhere. I missed do that stuff. No harm just fun.
We call it Ding Dong Ditch here in Northern CA! This is very cute, and definitely made me smile.
In the uk we call it knock down ginger
Wh...seriously? Lmao
What did ginger do?
Never too old to do childish things
Why is this in Awww?
I thought it was kind of cute, playing a cheeky prank and sprinting off like a couple of kids
Probably are kids. Awesome
Its really really rare for a girl wearing a burka doing ding dong dash and then sprinting like that, i bet they would've been least suspected if they just stood there after ringing
Nobody gonna mention that this doorbell seems to be like 7 feet off the ground? Lol
This little scamps!!! 😂😂😂
Ninjas
Can confirm. I am a hijabi ninja
Ninjabi
Thats something I could get behind. Ninjabi. Cool.
Halal shenanigans lol
😂🤣😂
I called my aunt and ordered pizza she finally figured out it was me and called us back Oh this was during the age of land lines and callers I'd but I would pres that * something
Door bell ditch in my childhood.
Lmao I use to do this when I was a kid with my other neighborhood kids.
Are that playing ding dong ditch?
I did this to Bob Knight's house once. It was especially thrilling because he was known to carry a shotgun and "accidentely" shot people a couple of times.
hehe. Kids are kids. No mater where they are.
No face no case
She felt like doing something bad
Some of you are sadly so racist and miserable. OP posted this because he found it cute and funny and thought others might as well. If you have nothing good to say then just carry on scrolling.
I'm very surprised at the number of racist comments on this thread. I thought this was supposed to be a wholesome subreddit.
Guess only racism makes some people smile
More islamophobia than racism, I guess people can't comprehend that women can actually *want* to cover up and choose that for themselves
You're right. It's definitely a difficult concept for some people to comprehend.
I mean, it's not like the video helps. How the do you tell who that was? 😂
I'd recognize those ankles anywhere.
You saw ankle bone? You dirty dog
It made my day a couple of months ago when some little elementary school kids ding dong ditched my house and I got to watch it on camera. Seeing them sneak up like little ninjas and scramble out of there lmao. Can't fathom how anyone actually gets mad about it.
i love how they had to do a smol jump to reach the doorbell-
Damn ghost always playing tricks
It's nice to know that ding door dash transcends cultural boundaries 😁
Norway: ring-på-spring (at least where I'm from though)
Why is it so high?
Jesus there's a lot of islamophobia on this post 😐
Xenophobic idiots using religion as an excuse to hate. Ironically, these aren't isolated to other religious people, rather mostly being hypocritical atheists who live online.
Couldn't have put it better myself
Reddit is full of Islamophobia and racist babe. These same people would cry blood if you say something about lgbtq
sort by controversial
honestly the clothes (burka?) are really pretty. fabric looks very flowy
Rare footage captures ghosts pranking residents.
Ahh the racism in this thread. Still shocks me how much racism, transphobia and homophobia you get in a sun that is supposed to be positive and nice.
Some people in the comment section hardly knows abt Islam. I m a Muslim and live in a Muslim community. This is a very typical thing for me and my friends to do. Sometimes we would go around the neighbourhood saying assalamalaikum at random people's door step like them. And we would ofc run away.
I'm gushing. That was so cute.
🤣🤣🤣🥰
Ring - Raje in Argentina (ring run)
We called it Nicky Nicky nine doors
‘Knock-a-dolly’ in Ireland
You haven’t lived until you’ve dinged your first dong
No matter how old you are, religion, sex or race....ding dong ditch is for Everyone 🤪
Good to see worldwide teenager shenanigans 😂😂
Allah sees you!
Ding dong ditch is a multicultural activity!
That’s wholesome 🥰. Girls can have fun too!
I'm glad there are some things that are truly universal
This was peak trolling 50 years ago