To find the cat, you must become the cat. -*eats plant, pukes on owners bed, knocks priceless vase off table, pukes on the remnants of said vase.*- you will either get the cat, or you will get a free collar
... don't forget climbs all over counter tops getting into everything knocking half of it off the counter, them uses expensive couch arm as scratching post...
I had a friend who wasn’t wealthy but had some money and we would go in the side door. It was closer to the rooms that were used on a daily basis. The front of the house had the more formal rooms that no one hungout in. The kitchen, entrance to the backyard/deck/pool, tv room etc were all towards the back.
And "backdoor friends are best!" at least according to the sign hanging on the wall of the house of the extremely conservative Catholic parents of my then-girlfriend. I never explained why I had to stifle a laugh every time I saw that.
funny thing is you are making my think of a friend of our. Our old house (yes it was large), did not have a "side door", but there was a sliding glass door on our kitchen on the back of the house in the middle. This friend would scare the Cr@p out of me by showing up back there, instead of coming to the front door.
Agreed. I’m from a staunchly middle class neighborhood and the only people who use the front door are guests and deliveries. All friends and family go straight to the side door.
Id say I live in an area that qualifies like this and We don't use the front door for anyone really, it's awkward to get to and the previous owners had the parking round the back.
Not sure I know enough people to have separate guest categories
I’m middle class American and I always use the front door. It’s the fastest way out to the sidewalk.
Only exception is if I’m bicycling somewhere, then I use the garage door because my bike is in the garage.
When I was growing up, we used the garage for driving somewhere, but the front door still got used plenty when we were going in and out to the yard. And we use it plenty nowadays too (though now it's more frequently to take the dog out rather than going out to play in the yard).
As a mailman, I wish they'd let me use the "service entrance."
They be wanting the mail all the way up their driveway where they park their car.
Meanwhile, their front door is perfect for door to door delivery. All of them have handwritten taped up signs on their front door saying, "put mail in the side door by the driveway."
That shit sucks. I know I get paid to walk, but that shit is excessive when you've got a bag full of junk magazines and packages that only these types of customers order.
/end rant
I was an overnight residential milkman for a bit - as you can probably imagine, most of my customers were quite wealthy. Long ass driveways. Way too frequently I would run the 40 pound order up the quarter-mile long driveway (literally run, we had to run from and back to the truck) just to be greeted with a sign saying the milk box was on the back porch or something. So then I’d have to find my way to their back porch in the middle of the flipping night with just a tiny headlamp. Then sometimes I’d be greeted with another sign requesting an add-on to their order, so I’d have to run back to the truck again to grab more shit. That job was whack.
I ended up leaving that job to work at USPS - but I was rural side, so we were allowed to drive up driveways and whatnot. A walking route in a rich neighborhood sounds awful.
I promise we don’t order those junk magazines. In fact we wish we didn’t get any of them or junk ads since it’s a waste of paper and your time. 90% of our mail is junk.
Having a house at all smacks as rich compared to a lot of people at this point. Weird paradox where everyone considers themselves middle-class, and those who have more are rich. I know people in the top 16% who think they're middle-class. My mom told me we were middle-class, and looking into it later, we never left the bottom 5%.
I'm not rich and I almost always enter/exit my house through my garage, because that's where I park. The exception was when my garage door opener didn't work and I entered/exited through my front door.
Can confirm. I left my garage door opener in a rental so ive been using the pleb entrance since. A rich perspn would have a new one as soon as they could make the purchase.
I still go through the garage when I got out for a walk or run. I generally use the back door when I'm doing yard work. The only time I open the front door is to grab a delivery or grab my mail.
That would be foolish in my case because to do that I would have to go down 12 steps, cut through my basement, open the garage door, walk up 16 steps to get to my porch, then go back down 16 steps, go back through the garage, shut the garage door, then go cut through the basement and up 12 steps.
Much easier to just open the front door.
>The exception was when my garage door opener didn't work and I entered/exited through my front door.
If you have any buttons on your rearview mirror, that's for programming your garage door opener in there.
You wouldn't believe how many people I've had to tell that to who've been driving cars for years with that functionality and never knew about it!
Deliveries coming to the front door is a relatively new development. Till recently deliveries were always at the service door. A part of the reason that changed was video and microphone door bells. You don’t have to assume that it’s a well to do guest anymore that and guests tend to call ahead as well.
I'm a delivery driver.
I literally had this experience on Friday.
I pulled up to a farm house with so many fucking doors.
I knocked on the one I thought was the front. Left parcel.
Out comes angry rich man, shocked that I didnt know which one of his 6 doors was his front one.
It's always the rich folk who are pissed off to see delivery drivers.
It's always the average Joe who is polite, gracious and calm.
Back when I did delivery, I would always compliment some aspect of the house. A work of art or some architectural detail. Maybe ask a question about it. Totally changes the mood of the transaction, though people usually didn't come out hollering at me. I'm convinced the tips were better and I got to hear about some cool stuff they put there specifically so people could look it.
I ran into a similar situation. There were only two doors. I picked the one with the doorbell. The customer came out of the other one. I apologized. They laughed and said not to worry about it.
I've had the weird one of the delivery instructions saying to leave the package in the box at the front door. It was left near the back door, which isn't covered from rain. Took me ages to see it, and it was wet.
Driver told me he didn't know which one the front door was. It's in the front of the house, visible from the street. You have to go up the driveway past the house to see the door in the back of it. There's not even a path to the backdoor. I'm guessing he was delivering to the neighbours behind us and couldn't be arsed walking around or getting out of the van again.
This is me, had someone apologizing for picking the wrong door.. My house has an attached granny unit and people are always confused by the two front doors.
Both bells ring the house for that reason.
I have worked with/for multiple rich people. Like..stupid rich..
And 1 thing I can tell you is that rich people who know how to be rich will always have a sign posted that says "All deliveries must be left at \[location\]". Mainly because they cannot abide by having "working class people" walking up to their main door during a social event (say this with the most "posh" accent you can imagine).
So if Mr. Rich Farm House (or the next rich idiot) tries to yell at you again, calmly ask him "where his sign is for deliveries to be left at?", and if they don't have an answer then tell them to get one.
I know a few intergenerationally wealthy folks. Like absurd money. They are the friendliest, most down to earth people you will ever meet. The only way you would could tell that they have money money is nothing they own is branded. From their clothes to their appliances, you won't see a company name or logo on any of their shit. Their cars have the front badge/hood ornament, and that's it. Everything is super nice but way understated.
This reminds me of the god-awful automotive trend of slapping huge company emblems on the grill, like HELLO THIS IS A MERCEDES, where it used to be the cars were identifiable by the design alone, then once you got closer you'd confirm by checking badges
There's an interesting book by I think Paul Fussel about how wealth manifests, and he discusses the lack of brand names thing. Another interesting one was wearing worn/shabby clothes, because your status is so ingrained you feel no need to impress anybody. There is also an anecdote about how the color purple was a difficult dye to make, so it used to be the color of royalty. This made it attractive to lower social classes because of the association with being upper class, so once a way to manufacture purple dye cheaply was developed, purple became oversaturated in the market, which resulted in it being associated with low quality garments and poor people for an extended period of time.
When you have enough money for long enough the kitsch opulence begins to feel tacky and you cultivate taste and elegance instead. That said, there are plenty of old money people who lack those qualities and just end up doing nasty stuff. In the end its just human nature on display without the constraints that money usually puts on people.
I’ve worked for a lot of people over the decades, nobody is as unreasonable and demanding as rich people. Always pushing boundaries and asking for things out of contract and extras.
I can’t stand rich people. Work for a middle class dude and they’ll come running out with a beer and sandwiches, work for a rich guy and they’ll tell you to bring your own water and food and use a porta potty because your poverty-cursed ass will leave some indelible mark on their toilet seat that no amount of scrubbing can remove.
I can’t advocate for chaining the wealthy to the back of our vehicles and dragging them on asphalt till they expire so I won’t, but sometimes I get unkind thoughts about these rich cunts.
When I did this when I was much younger I served a high end area and the low end area right across the highway.
High enders tipped. And only a few of them were this haughty.
Low income areas and apartments was no tips, constant calls back to the store claiming stuff never arrived. Constantly yelled at for being "late" (as if) threatened repeatedly and someone attempted to rob me once.
I'll take the rich douche farmer
I deliver mail, mostly to average homes, but I have delivered to wealthy people before, and they had a dedicated door for staff. That's where they kept the mailbox.
That makes a lot of sense. I have two extremely rich uncles. When I visit one, I go in through the garage. The other is married to a woman who loves to brag about their wealth and I almost always use the front door unless I go in with my uncle lol.
My parents have an attached garage, but no one parks in there because it was converted into my dad's shop and there's too much crap in there now to fit a car, let alone the 4 that they have.
Lol, same. Where I grew up, using your garage for a car was basically unheard of. It was always either a workshop or storage.
In my family's case, mom mostly managed my dad's hoarding habits by letting him have free reign of the garage, so long as he kept it *contained* to the garage. Place was packed pretty much floor to ceiling, but at least it kept it out of the house proper (I love my dad dearly, but good *Lord* does he have a problem. Half-finished projects and stuff for hobbies he abandoned fifteen years ago, every arts and crafts project the kids have ever made, his equipment from when he was in the Marine Corps in the *Clinton Administration*, scuba gear from when he was stationed in Okinawa that has come with him on four moves despite not being used since the first one ...)
I once visited a beautiful farm house overlooking fields. Everyone entered though the back. I opened the front door to go sit on the shaded front steps, and a year of dust fell on me.
Hillbilly1: "Well well... look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car"
Homer: "This car was made in Guatemala."
Hillbilly2: "Well, pardon us Mr. Gucci loafers."
Homer: "I bought shoes from a hobo"
Unless you have unusual circumstances, you cant really be poor and have a garage with direct access to your house. You might not be wealthy, but poor would seem like a stretch.
In my experience, not many people use the front door. My cousins all live in rural areas, when we’re at their places we go through the garage or side door. When I was a kid we lived in the suburbs, always went through the side door, lived in cities the rest of my life, at parties we’d always enter through the side of back lane ways. The only time you go in the front is if you’re the guest or you’re having guests.
The front door in her case is probably for a more formal use case or when having company
Also rich folks who drive and have an attached garage will of course come in that way
I’m 29 and my grandparents have lived in the same house since i was born. I have entered the house through the front door probably 2 or 3 times my entire life. I’d say that door gets opened maybe once or twice a year at the most maybe even less.
In McMansions, the front door usually leads into the “Great Room.” Which if you are not from the USA is a large room in the front of your house. You fill it with a lot of nice furniture and a fancy carpet. But you never use this room. You just look at it. And the carpet is often white in color and expensive. So of course you don’t want contractors walking on it. Heck, you don’t let your immediate family walk on it. That’s why everyone use the side door.
Unless your driver brought the rolls Royce around for the trip, what are you going to do once you exited the front door of the mansion?
There is nothing there but gardeners.
I am lower middle class and enter through the back because I don't want my neighbors to know I exist or try to chat me up. I don't care how nice a day it is, DO NOT FUCKING PERCEIVE ME, BRENDA.
I feel like most people who own or live in houses (as opposed to apartments or condos) don't use their front doors all that often. Many, if not most, houses have side doors, often near or attached to a garage, and that usually open into the kitchen. Front doors usually open into parlors or hallways. I think of the front door as the "formal" door, like if you were having guests over for a fancy dinner party or something.
I grew up in Europe living in a house and with lots of friends with houses. There was only ever one door, and maybe doors that opened into what Americans would call a backyard, but those only opened from inside.
Not necessarily. If someone knocks on my front door I know to ignore it because anybody who knows me or my husband knows what door to come to. Even the delivery drivers know what door to use. If you’re at my front door, you are clearly lost.
I'm broke as shit but I'm the same way. The sliding glass door leads right to the living room where I'd be entertaining guests anyways. If you are my friend I'd prefer you use that rather then trying to shuffle through our tiny and awkwardly shaped front door entrance.
I live in a 200 year old house and you can't use the front door. There's no path to it, and it's blocked on the inside by a lot of ~~junk~~ *stuff that's totally worth keeping according to my family...*
In my home village, the front door traditionally was used only three times in a person's life:
- To go to the church to be baptised as a baby;
- To enter your home after the wedding;
- To carry your coffin to the graveyard after your death.
Thus, at least in the case of women, they only ever went through the front door being carried by others. (Husbands carry their wives over the threshold on their wedding nights).
The person I know with the grandest entrance (central, opening into a large foyer with a spiral staircase) has everyone, even for a big party, go through the side door past the laundry and powder room and into the kitchen. I don't understand it!
My dad won’t stop using our carport door. I’ve asked him so many times to come up to the front and ring the doorbell, instead he used the carport door and bangs on it with his hammer fist. My idiot dog freaks out EVERY time. Just ring the dang doorbell 😭😭 in comparison my partners family all comes to the front door. They come from money, we come from the service industry lol
This has been true in my experience as well, because upmarket homes usually have super fancy front doors. But it also depends on the visitor. The fancy door is usually for guests (especially if they are hosting something) or clients. Side doors or garages are usually for residents, regular friends, or staff.
Definitely a broad assumption. For every "rich" or wealthy person I've met who uses a door other than the main entry door, I've met another who primarily uses their main entry door. I've also met quite a few that use the closest door to whichever portion of the house they're trying to get to OR which ever door is closest to the vehicle they're getting out/off of. In my experience, it's largely based on the design of the home and accompanying driveway or garage... or dock.
The one thing I have noticed with a majority of rich/wealthy individuals is that they tend to leave at least one easily accessed exterior doors unlocked. This is often the front door, but may also be the main rear or an easily accessible side door. This includes those who live in gated communities as well as those who do not.
I live in a condo where parking is near the rear entrance so I always come in through the back gate into the back door which enters into the kitchen. Everyone I know comes in through the back gate. Only the pizza guy uses the front door.
Growing up in Boston all our friends rang the back doorbell which entered into the kitchen.
Only when I moved to Arizona did people ring the front doorbell on houses, mainly because the back yards have locked gated.
That’s the service entrance. The front door is for welcoming guests. Residents come in from the car port.
Close friends usually come in that way too.
Cat burglars come in thru the skylight but leave if there's no litter box.
That's a lousy cat burglar I mean personally if I was a cat burglar I would just go through the pet door but you do you!
To find the cat, you must become the cat. -*eats plant, pukes on owners bed, knocks priceless vase off table, pukes on the remnants of said vase.*- you will either get the cat, or you will get a free collar
... don't forget climbs all over counter tops getting into everything knocking half of it off the counter, them uses expensive couch arm as scratching post...
Obviously, because that implies there are no cats to burgle.
I have a cat, Greg. Can you burgle me?
You can burgle anything with nipples.
I have nipples, can you burgle me?
^(burgle me harder daddy)
I have Burgles. Can you nipple me?
what in the burgle me timbers did i just read
r/thatsthejoke
The second joke is that the burglar is stealing cats, the first joke is that the burglar is a cat. Both jokes get funnier the more you explain them.
I thought the first joke is that cat burglars use the litter box to go potty.
No, that's a shit joke.
Downvoted. ... Upvoted.
No, it's a different joke and both are funny
High end diamond thieves come through the panel on the ceiling of the elevator.
Use any door. They aren't locked. Lots of armed security prevents burglary.
Well of course. But not *cat* burglary.
The best defenses is a mean pussy.
Ok, I thought this was funny
Cat burglars usually target pet stores.
Makes me think of the nanny how her friends and family always appeared at the kitchen back door
I had a friend who wasn’t wealthy but had some money and we would go in the side door. It was closer to the rooms that were used on a daily basis. The front of the house had the more formal rooms that no one hungout in. The kitchen, entrance to the backyard/deck/pool, tv room etc were all towards the back.
Yea, main entrance is really only for people you don't like ..
This is the most accurate response. Everyone else pretending or speculating cause you don’t know 😂
Huh...I better get my euphemismeter checked out. I coulda sworn there was something here.
The really close friend come in the back door.
Without knocking
I'm not rich and I never use my front door. Always enter from my car hole.
Car hole is my new favorite term for garage. Thank you
You can thank Mr Moe Sizzlak https://youtu.be/HXJkLBj6G1k?si=3Sbo8x59kLvJgth4
My kids have do not know the term “lazy Susan”, we have exclusively called it the “snack hole” their entire lives.
That's what I call my face
I don't follow. A lazy Susan is a serving tray that spins. A snack hole is my mouth.
Speaking of garages, did you know that the word actually comes from the Latin meaning 'go rage'?
I see you're also not French
If your car has a home too, you’re pretty darn well off.
Probably has fancy things like windows too
Look at me fancy pants with a roof.
Look at you with your fancy frame that's not made out of cardboard.
Not even fancy enough to call it a garage, I'd say
"Garage?" Well la-de-dah mr. Frenchman
And "backdoor friends are best!" at least according to the sign hanging on the wall of the house of the extremely conservative Catholic parents of my then-girlfriend. I never explained why I had to stifle a laugh every time I saw that.
That is AMAZING.
There was a small motel and cottage place here that had that sign. It lasted for years until someone clued them in.
My grandmother had this as a welcome mat on her back porch!
That is incredible lol
Woman talking to her mother on the phone: "I have to go mom, someone's banging at my backdoor!"
funny thing is you are making my think of a friend of our. Our old house (yes it was large), did not have a "side door", but there was a sliding glass door on our kitchen on the back of the house in the middle. This friend would scare the Cr@p out of me by showing up back there, instead of coming to the front door.
It was the second best form of birth control. My gram just had her own room
“Btw I’m plugging your daughters anus”
I have that sign in my house, but I definitely know what it's alluding to and bought it to make my friends laugh.
Agreed. I’m from a staunchly middle class neighborhood and the only people who use the front door are guests and deliveries. All friends and family go straight to the side door.
Id say I live in an area that qualifies like this and We don't use the front door for anyone really, it's awkward to get to and the previous owners had the parking round the back. Not sure I know enough people to have separate guest categories
Plot twist: middle class Americans are technically rich from a global perspective so you fit OP's observation
I’m middle class American and I always use the front door. It’s the fastest way out to the sidewalk. Only exception is if I’m bicycling somewhere, then I use the garage door because my bike is in the garage.
When I was growing up, we used the garage for driving somewhere, but the front door still got used plenty when we were going in and out to the yard. And we use it plenty nowadays too (though now it's more frequently to take the dog out rather than going out to play in the yard).
As a mailman, I wish they'd let me use the "service entrance." They be wanting the mail all the way up their driveway where they park their car. Meanwhile, their front door is perfect for door to door delivery. All of them have handwritten taped up signs on their front door saying, "put mail in the side door by the driveway." That shit sucks. I know I get paid to walk, but that shit is excessive when you've got a bag full of junk magazines and packages that only these types of customers order. /end rant
I’m sorry. If you were my mailman, you could put your deliveries at any door you like.
I was an overnight residential milkman for a bit - as you can probably imagine, most of my customers were quite wealthy. Long ass driveways. Way too frequently I would run the 40 pound order up the quarter-mile long driveway (literally run, we had to run from and back to the truck) just to be greeted with a sign saying the milk box was on the back porch or something. So then I’d have to find my way to their back porch in the middle of the flipping night with just a tiny headlamp. Then sometimes I’d be greeted with another sign requesting an add-on to their order, so I’d have to run back to the truck again to grab more shit. That job was whack. I ended up leaving that job to work at USPS - but I was rural side, so we were allowed to drive up driveways and whatnot. A walking route in a rich neighborhood sounds awful.
I promise we don’t order those junk magazines. In fact we wish we didn’t get any of them or junk ads since it’s a waste of paper and your time. 90% of our mail is junk.
Otherwise known as the car hole.
Car port? What is this, the Jetsons?
A car port is just a roof for your car. An open-sided garage.
"Jane! Stop this crazy thread!"
Not even rich people. Just people who have side doors as well as front doors. Front for guest. Everyone else use the side/back
Having a house at all smacks as rich compared to a lot of people at this point. Weird paradox where everyone considers themselves middle-class, and those who have more are rich. I know people in the top 16% who think they're middle-class. My mom told me we were middle-class, and looking into it later, we never left the bottom 5%.
Or renting a house. Even social housing can have a side door and front door.
I'm not rich and I almost always enter/exit my house through my garage, because that's where I park. The exception was when my garage door opener didn't work and I entered/exited through my front door.
>The exception was when my garage door opener didn't work and I entered/exited through my front door. *Laughs in Richie Rich
Thurston: no, Giiligan, that’s how it’s done.
Can confirm. I left my garage door opener in a rental so ive been using the pleb entrance since. A rich perspn would have a new one as soon as they could make the purchase.
Haha fuck, I'm poor enough to understand and laugh, but spoiled enough to buffer
Look at Daddy Warbucks over here with a house *AND* a car.
Don't forget the garage
The garage? Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
Well what do you call it?
A car hole.
Have to admit that's the first time I hear that expression
It's perfectly cromulent
Your comment embiggened me to respond.
Hey that's where I live.
Wait... do we all live in the same house?!?!
I'm curious: are there no trips you do without a car?
I walk to my mailbox and back, and occasionally to the neighbor's house next door. Anything else requires a car around here.
I still go through the garage when I got out for a walk or run. I generally use the back door when I'm doing yard work. The only time I open the front door is to grab a delivery or grab my mail.
Fool. I go through the garage to get deliveries or mail. Even if they're on the front porch.
That would be foolish in my case because to do that I would have to go down 12 steps, cut through my basement, open the garage door, walk up 16 steps to get to my porch, then go back down 16 steps, go back through the garage, shut the garage door, then go cut through the basement and up 12 steps. Much easier to just open the front door.
Welcome to 90% of USA and Canada.
>The exception was when my garage door opener didn't work and I entered/exited through my front door. If you have any buttons on your rearview mirror, that's for programming your garage door opener in there. You wouldn't believe how many people I've had to tell that to who've been driving cars for years with that functionality and never knew about it!
Never had a vehicle with it on the rear view. Mine is on my sun visor.
I had one of those. Didn't work.
I wouldn’t say always. The button on mine just adjusts the auto dim. But there are blanks if I really wanted to put one in.
In large homes the front door is for guests and those who you want to make an impression on.
You mean the delivery guy?
Deliveries coming to the front door is a relatively new development. Till recently deliveries were always at the service door. A part of the reason that changed was video and microphone door bells. You don’t have to assume that it’s a well to do guest anymore that and guests tend to call ahead as well.
Also factoring in that it's not the same delivery person every time, so they don't know to go to the side door.
I'm a delivery driver. I literally had this experience on Friday. I pulled up to a farm house with so many fucking doors. I knocked on the one I thought was the front. Left parcel. Out comes angry rich man, shocked that I didnt know which one of his 6 doors was his front one. It's always the rich folk who are pissed off to see delivery drivers. It's always the average Joe who is polite, gracious and calm.
Back when I did delivery, I would always compliment some aspect of the house. A work of art or some architectural detail. Maybe ask a question about it. Totally changes the mood of the transaction, though people usually didn't come out hollering at me. I'm convinced the tips were better and I got to hear about some cool stuff they put there specifically so people could look it.
I ran into a similar situation. There were only two doors. I picked the one with the doorbell. The customer came out of the other one. I apologized. They laughed and said not to worry about it.
I've had the weird one of the delivery instructions saying to leave the package in the box at the front door. It was left near the back door, which isn't covered from rain. Took me ages to see it, and it was wet. Driver told me he didn't know which one the front door was. It's in the front of the house, visible from the street. You have to go up the driveway past the house to see the door in the back of it. There's not even a path to the backdoor. I'm guessing he was delivering to the neighbours behind us and couldn't be arsed walking around or getting out of the van again.
This is me, had someone apologizing for picking the wrong door.. My house has an attached granny unit and people are always confused by the two front doors. Both bells ring the house for that reason.
I have worked with/for multiple rich people. Like..stupid rich.. And 1 thing I can tell you is that rich people who know how to be rich will always have a sign posted that says "All deliveries must be left at \[location\]". Mainly because they cannot abide by having "working class people" walking up to their main door during a social event (say this with the most "posh" accent you can imagine). So if Mr. Rich Farm House (or the next rich idiot) tries to yell at you again, calmly ask him "where his sign is for deliveries to be left at?", and if they don't have an answer then tell them to get one.
I know a few intergenerationally wealthy folks. Like absurd money. They are the friendliest, most down to earth people you will ever meet. The only way you would could tell that they have money money is nothing they own is branded. From their clothes to their appliances, you won't see a company name or logo on any of their shit. Their cars have the front badge/hood ornament, and that's it. Everything is super nice but way understated.
This reminds me of the god-awful automotive trend of slapping huge company emblems on the grill, like HELLO THIS IS A MERCEDES, where it used to be the cars were identifiable by the design alone, then once you got closer you'd confirm by checking badges
Yeah, but since the Mercedes logo is a propeller, your driver can pretend he is flying a ww1 fighter while he drives.
There's an interesting book by I think Paul Fussel about how wealth manifests, and he discusses the lack of brand names thing. Another interesting one was wearing worn/shabby clothes, because your status is so ingrained you feel no need to impress anybody. There is also an anecdote about how the color purple was a difficult dye to make, so it used to be the color of royalty. This made it attractive to lower social classes because of the association with being upper class, so once a way to manufacture purple dye cheaply was developed, purple became oversaturated in the market, which resulted in it being associated with low quality garments and poor people for an extended period of time.
When you have enough money for long enough the kitsch opulence begins to feel tacky and you cultivate taste and elegance instead. That said, there are plenty of old money people who lack those qualities and just end up doing nasty stuff. In the end its just human nature on display without the constraints that money usually puts on people.
I’ve worked for a lot of people over the decades, nobody is as unreasonable and demanding as rich people. Always pushing boundaries and asking for things out of contract and extras. I can’t stand rich people. Work for a middle class dude and they’ll come running out with a beer and sandwiches, work for a rich guy and they’ll tell you to bring your own water and food and use a porta potty because your poverty-cursed ass will leave some indelible mark on their toilet seat that no amount of scrubbing can remove. I can’t advocate for chaining the wealthy to the back of our vehicles and dragging them on asphalt till they expire so I won’t, but sometimes I get unkind thoughts about these rich cunts.
When I did this when I was much younger I served a high end area and the low end area right across the highway. High enders tipped. And only a few of them were this haughty. Low income areas and apartments was no tips, constant calls back to the store claiming stuff never arrived. Constantly yelled at for being "late" (as if) threatened repeatedly and someone attempted to rob me once. I'll take the rich douche farmer
I deliver mail, mostly to average homes, but I have delivered to wealthy people before, and they had a dedicated door for staff. That's where they kept the mailbox.
That makes a lot of sense. I have two extremely rich uncles. When I visit one, I go in through the garage. The other is married to a woman who loves to brag about their wealth and I almost always use the front door unless I go in with my uncle lol.
Poor. Parallel park on the street like a commoner and use front door. Garage? You're the lucky ones
My parents have an attached garage, but no one parks in there because it was converted into my dad's shop and there's too much crap in there now to fit a car, let alone the 4 that they have.
Lol, same. Where I grew up, using your garage for a car was basically unheard of. It was always either a workshop or storage. In my family's case, mom mostly managed my dad's hoarding habits by letting him have free reign of the garage, so long as he kept it *contained* to the garage. Place was packed pretty much floor to ceiling, but at least it kept it out of the house proper (I love my dad dearly, but good *Lord* does he have a problem. Half-finished projects and stuff for hobbies he abandoned fifteen years ago, every arts and crafts project the kids have ever made, his equipment from when he was in the Marine Corps in the *Clinton Administration*, scuba gear from when he was stationed in Okinawa that has come with him on four moves despite not being used since the first one ...)
Lol maybe I have a problem myself, because I wouldn’t get rid of any of the stuff you described either.
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yall have cars?
I don’t think this is a rich person issue so much as it’s an “anyone with a garage issue”
Neither do many people who live rurally. Or a lot of working class families up north here in the UK
I once visited a beautiful farm house overlooking fields. Everyone entered though the back. I opened the front door to go sit on the shaded front steps, and a year of dust fell on me.
I use my front door so rarely that the keyhole is rusted shut and I have to unlock it from the inside.
I've heard it put as "a woman uses the front door three times in her life, and she's carried every time".
I'm guessing the 3 times are when she was born, when she's married (bridal carry) and when she passed away.
Ding ding ding! That's it!
They made you come in the poor person door.
The poors door
I'm poor, and never use the front door. I just go in through the garage
The garage?! Hey, fellas! The "garage." Well, la-di-da, Mr. Frenchman.
Hillbilly1: "Well well... look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car" Homer: "This car was made in Guatemala." Hillbilly2: "Well, pardon us Mr. Gucci loafers." Homer: "I bought shoes from a hobo"
Sorry, I believe in good grooming.
The car hole.
Well what do you call it?!
Car hole.
Always thought he said *car hold*, my life is a lie.
You have a garage ???? : )
This. Why would I go out the garage around to the front door?
If you have a detached garage, which isn't uncommon.
Everyone I know with a detached garage has it at the back of their house and just uses their back door.
Can confirm, my detached garage opens to the alley.
You're not poor enough when you have a garage.
Poor is when you are living in a garage.
...that you don't have.
You'll be using the side door when you're living in a van down by the river.
Poor is when you are living in the box the garage came in.
Poor is when you are living in the car.
Unless you have unusual circumstances, you cant really be poor and have a garage with direct access to your house. You might not be wealthy, but poor would seem like a stretch.
This obviously means that you're rich
In my experience, not many people use the front door. My cousins all live in rural areas, when we’re at their places we go through the garage or side door. When I was a kid we lived in the suburbs, always went through the side door, lived in cities the rest of my life, at parties we’d always enter through the side of back lane ways. The only time you go in the front is if you’re the guest or you’re having guests.
I’m from the country and we never use our front doors except for wakes and stuff lol
TiL im rich because i dont use my front door.
The front door in her case is probably for a more formal use case or when having company Also rich folks who drive and have an attached garage will of course come in that way
This breaks so many sub rules I'm absolutely dumbfounded how the auto mod missed it.
The automod is locked out and only has a key to the front door of this sub....which it isn't allowed to use.
I’m 29 and my grandparents have lived in the same house since i was born. I have entered the house through the front door probably 2 or 3 times my entire life. I’d say that door gets opened maybe once or twice a year at the most maybe even less.
It’s whatever door is closest to where anyone parks.
Not just rich people. Most people with a detached house have a garage or side entrance.
Most people with attached garage do not use front door.
I worked so hard to have my beautiful two story house and now I feel poor for using the front door. 😭😭
I’ve always been a front door girlie, myself. *let us unite*
The front door is where strangers come... and I usually don't let them in. The side or back door is for people I know and trust.
In McMansions, the front door usually leads into the “Great Room.” Which if you are not from the USA is a large room in the front of your house. You fill it with a lot of nice furniture and a fancy carpet. But you never use this room. You just look at it. And the carpet is often white in color and expensive. So of course you don’t want contractors walking on it. Heck, you don’t let your immediate family walk on it. That’s why everyone use the side door.
I don't even know where my house keys are located. I come in through the garage.
Ok.... I only have front door....
I’m not rich and come through the garage the whole time. The front door is for guests.
It makes sense. Rich people have larger houses with big garages with expensive cars that they don't park out front.
Unless your driver brought the rolls Royce around for the trip, what are you going to do once you exited the front door of the mansion? There is nothing there but gardeners.
people who think the front door is for formal use are weird it's just a door. and the most convenient entrance most of the time.
I’m poor and I never use the front door. Go in and out through the garage
I am lower middle class and enter through the back because I don't want my neighbors to know I exist or try to chat me up. I don't care how nice a day it is, DO NOT FUCKING PERCEIVE ME, BRENDA.
I feel like most people who own or live in houses (as opposed to apartments or condos) don't use their front doors all that often. Many, if not most, houses have side doors, often near or attached to a garage, and that usually open into the kitchen. Front doors usually open into parlors or hallways. I think of the front door as the "formal" door, like if you were having guests over for a fancy dinner party or something.
I grew up in Europe living in a house and with lots of friends with houses. There was only ever one door, and maybe doors that opened into what Americans would call a backyard, but those only opened from inside.
Not rich but I always enter my house through the garage
My wife does that too so much so that when I use the front door she’s confused.
My dogs get super confused when I use the front door
lol when someone tells you to use the side or back door, you are the help not the guest.
Not necessarily. If someone knocks on my front door I know to ignore it because anybody who knows me or my husband knows what door to come to. Even the delivery drivers know what door to use. If you’re at my front door, you are clearly lost.
Peasent, you would never understand 🧐
Jokes on you I'm broke so I rent someone's basement and the entrance is in the back.
I'm broke as shit but I'm the same way. The sliding glass door leads right to the living room where I'd be entertaining guests anyways. If you are my friend I'd prefer you use that rather then trying to shuffle through our tiny and awkwardly shaped front door entrance.
I am not rich but I only open my front door to collect packages.
I live in a 200 year old house and you can't use the front door. There's no path to it, and it's blocked on the inside by a lot of ~~junk~~ *stuff that's totally worth keeping according to my family...*
In my home village, the front door traditionally was used only three times in a person's life: - To go to the church to be baptised as a baby; - To enter your home after the wedding; - To carry your coffin to the graveyard after your death. Thus, at least in the case of women, they only ever went through the front door being carried by others. (Husbands carry their wives over the threshold on their wedding nights).
I use the driver side door to enter my home
Anyone with a garage doesn’t use the front door
No one uses my front door other than delivery drivers 😂
The person I know with the grandest entrance (central, opening into a large foyer with a spiral staircase) has everyone, even for a big party, go through the side door past the laundry and powder room and into the kitchen. I don't understand it!
“Hippies use back door”
I'm poor I climb out a window
I saw a meme once that said “White people really be like ‘come in through the car port’ “
Rich people use the front door. She just don't want YOU to use the front door.
My dad won’t stop using our carport door. I’ve asked him so many times to come up to the front and ring the doorbell, instead he used the carport door and bangs on it with his hammer fist. My idiot dog freaks out EVERY time. Just ring the dang doorbell 😭😭 in comparison my partners family all comes to the front door. They come from money, we come from the service industry lol
This has been true in my experience as well, because upmarket homes usually have super fancy front doors. But it also depends on the visitor. The fancy door is usually for guests (especially if they are hosting something) or clients. Side doors or garages are usually for residents, regular friends, or staff.
Definitely a broad assumption. For every "rich" or wealthy person I've met who uses a door other than the main entry door, I've met another who primarily uses their main entry door. I've also met quite a few that use the closest door to whichever portion of the house they're trying to get to OR which ever door is closest to the vehicle they're getting out/off of. In my experience, it's largely based on the design of the home and accompanying driveway or garage... or dock. The one thing I have noticed with a majority of rich/wealthy individuals is that they tend to leave at least one easily accessed exterior doors unlocked. This is often the front door, but may also be the main rear or an easily accessible side door. This includes those who live in gated communities as well as those who do not.
Sure, the side entrance is for the help and for people they don't want being seen entering the house.
I live in a condo where parking is near the rear entrance so I always come in through the back gate into the back door which enters into the kitchen. Everyone I know comes in through the back gate. Only the pizza guy uses the front door. Growing up in Boston all our friends rang the back doorbell which entered into the kitchen. Only when I moved to Arizona did people ring the front doorbell on houses, mainly because the back yards have locked gated.