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A "hobo" story
The reason I labeled this as a "hobo" story is in honor of Ala in the apartment post below, lol.
Saturday a sketchy man came to my door and asked for "Smooth." 
He seemed intoxicated. I told him he had the wrong apartment. He apologized and then asked me for money because his car was about to run out of gas. I told him I never have cash on me, which is true. Even if I did, it was obvious it was set-up.
He was persistent, kept begging, and wouldn't leave my doorstep. He asked me if I'd fill his tank up with my credit card. I firmly said, "NO!" and shut the door.
It left a bad taste in my mouth, so I called DH to tell him about it. DH knew exactly who it was and basically said, "Don't ever answer the door for him again!" Apparently, he's a major creep who goes door-to-door pitching a sob story for money. He's also a well-known druggie, thief, and boxer in the area and has been known to kick some ass to get what he wants. 
We live in a decent area and I usually feel safe, but people are unpredictable... I think I'll go back to never answering the door unless I'm expecting someone.
Re: A "hobo" story
How scary! I've never heard of someone doing that but I guess people are getting more desperate. I'm easily spooked by stuff like that and would be freaking out.
I never answer the door if I'm home alone, but in the summer I will often be in and out of the house doing yard stuff. Although once it's dark out, I'm usually inside with the doors locked.
I try to keep my doors locked too. My H keeps telling me not to answer the door at all when I'm home alone. At first I thought it was silly, but he does have a good point... He arrests angry people for various things on a weekly basis and our city is small so there's no telling who might know where we live. :-/
He said the guy who came to our door isn't really hurting for money and pitches that sob story all the time. He'd gone to a few other doors that day too, but the only thing they could do was cite him for it. Most of the people he's stolen from and has had altercations with in the past were over drug deals, but it still freaks me out! Eek.
Yuck! That would freak me out!
I'm one of those people (if I have cash) who will give them money because I feel bad.
*hangs head in shame*
But in public, I don't think I've ever had someone approach me at my house.
That's really scary!
Stellar, I know what you mean... I've done the same thing by giving money to people in public and then later think, "Why in the world did I just pull out my wallet in front of this person?!" Haha.
Something about him just coming to my door seemed "off," especially after asking for someone with a druggie nickname like "Smooth." He went to a couple other neighbors' doors also but didn't do anything aggressive. He probably didn't realize he knocked on a cop's door which is kind of funny.
It's weird how I get all the inside scoop on weirdos like this now that DH has to deal with them, lol. We have regular town drunks, town schizophrenics, town thieves, etc.
omg, that's so scary! i didn't think that happened in good neighborhoods outside of movies.
when i lived in an apartment, i always answered the door because i got so few visitor... guess maybe not the best idea. whoops.
I don't think he could in this case since the guy was only knocking on people's doors and asking for money (rather than his usual behavior of drug deals and other stuff). My H and his coworker cited the guy for it later that day since he'd been bothering a lot of people, so I'd think they would've arrested him if they could. H was pretty mad and creeped since he knows the guy's history.
This is why I have a "no soliciting" sign on my door. People be crazy
I need to get one of these. Maybe it would keep the neighbor kids from asking us to buy things too!