# Did anyone here ever have someone knock on your door and ask for food?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 19, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-here-ever-have-someone-knock-on-your-door-and-ask-for-food/740835 "2015-12-19T04:58:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-here-ever-have-someone-knock-on-your-door-and-ask-for-food/740835/41 "2015-12-23T00:40:31Z")

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When I lived in my old house, I had a guy knock on my door and ask if he could mow my lawn, and quoted a price. It needed to be done, and we were having a stretch of very hot weather, so I said yes. He mowed my lawn, and honestly did a very good job. I did cringe a bit when I saw him with a cigarette in his mouth while pushing my gas-powered mower. :smack: Never saw him again.

I also had a woman knock on my door after a snowstorm and offer to shovel my sidewalk because she said she needed money to buy diapers. I had some diapers that I was going to donate to a food pantry, and they happened to be the size she needed, so she shoveled my driveway too. 🆒

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-here-ever-have-someone-knock-on-your-door-and-ask-for-food/740835/42 "2015-12-23T11:02:37Z")

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I’ve done the knocking before–as part of a Christmas canned foods drive. Though I notice we now get a note in the mail, mentioning that we can hang a sack by our mailbox and that they’ll come and pick it up.

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