# Would this freak you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641 "2010-01-12T08:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/1 "2010-01-12T08:50:20Z")
Yesterday, I came home to find a ribbon on my doorknob. It was an award ribbon, like you might get from the dollar store- you know, the kind that say “#1 kid” or “Birthday Girl” or whatever on them. This one said, “One of a Kind” on the front and had my name on the back. Nothing else. No note, no signature, just a ribbon with my name on it. I told a few of my friends about it (pretty much exactly as I just typed it there, not with extra drama added or anything), and their reactions were, “wow, aren’t you scared? that’s so creepy!” It didn’t even occur to me to be scared. I’m still not, now that it’s been suggested. At most, I’m amused. So, dopers- are my friends being overly dramatic, or should I be sleeping with the lights on? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/2 "2010-01-12T08:59:22Z")
I just finished watching _Criminal Minds_ about a stalker. Yes, I’d be freaked, but ask me again in the morning. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/3 "2010-01-12T10:26:26Z")
I would personally be fairly upset [I have had a stalker] mainly because I rarely leave the house [especially in the winter, I don’t’ want to fall and break anything, I’m gimpy enough as it is] so it would mean that someone snuck up to the house without me seeing them and did it, and the dog didn’t go apeshit with barking. Being in a rural area, we do not get many pedestrians… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/4 "2010-01-12T10:39:32Z")
Try to think of all the guys you know, however tenuously. Are any of them whimsical and flirtatious? It might be him, and that could be good. Are any of them **seriously** lacking in social cues? It might be him, and that could be bad. BTW, was it your first and last name, or just first? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/5 "2010-01-12T15:19:07Z")
Is it an apartment or a house? In a big apartment building, I could see some drunken kids horsing around, and just putting it on some random doorknob as a lark. If you have a house, someone went to the effort of walking up your yard to the door, which would ping my warning sensor. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/6 "2010-01-12T15:41:50Z")
Yep, it would freak me out. It wasn’t random if it had your name on it. I’m easily freaked out though. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/7 "2010-01-12T15:54:51Z")
Well it all depends, seems you have no clue who it might be from? I guess that makes it slightly creepier than if you at least had a suspect in mind, in which case it would be kinda neat. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/8 "2010-01-12T16:03:26Z")
It wouldn’t freak me out, but I’d be damn curious. I’d be trying to think of any good deed I’d done lately . . . and really not coming up with anything. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/9 "2010-01-12T16:11:19Z")
Yes, it’s creepy. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/10 "2010-01-12T16:12:54Z")
I’d probably see it, think “What the hell this?” then throw it in the trash. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/11 "2010-01-12T16:14:50Z")
Are you living in a dorm? (Sorry, I can’t remember.) I’m thinking you’ve got it right. Just doesn’t seem very threatening to me. More like a card from a secret admirer. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/12 "2010-01-12T16:37:32Z")
Cards from “secret admirers” are also creepy. What kind of weirdo actually does shit like that in real life? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/13 "2010-01-12T16:37:32Z")
I don’t think it’s creepy at all; it sounds very sweet. If someone did this for me, it would make my day. Or week! ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/14 "2010-01-12T16:39:39Z")
Yes ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/15 "2010-01-12T16:40:47Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Cards from “secret admirers” are also creepy. What kind of weirdo actually does shit like that in real life? Funny! Most things that are romantic in movies are creepy in real life. Couple of weeks ago I received a Xmas card in my inbox at work that didn’t have a name on it. I don’t know if it was some sort of super-Secret Santa that nobody else was in on but the giver, or a secret admirer, or a coworker happy with my work or what, but I had no idea who it was from. I threw it away. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/16 "2010-01-12T17:57:05Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’d probably see it, think “What the hell this?” then throw it in the trash. I think that would be my reaction, too. I might add a thought about, “Damned marketers.” ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/17 "2010-01-12T18:55:34Z")
Or, it might be someone in the neighborhood trying to do a “good deed”. They might have decided to give one of these ribbons to everyone in the neighborhood in an effort of good will. Not necessarily the best idea, due to the more nefarious meanings these ribbons could have, but might not necessarily freak me out. More would have had to happen to make me freak out. Odds are, I’d be more in line with **MeanOldLady** and **Cat Whisperer** on my first reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/18 "2010-01-12T19:06:28Z")
The fact that it had her name on it is what puts it into the creepy category. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/19 "2010-01-12T19:11:57Z")
I think that would be awesome. It would make me happy. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641/20 "2010-01-12T19:13:54Z")
Wow, there are people who would actually like it if sombody was spying on them, and stalking them and leaving them creepy messages? Amazing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-this-freak-you-out/524641.md?page=2)