Lack of common sense & courtesy could be scary!

For the second time in two days I’ve had to go rescue idiot contractors from my doberman.

What happened to common sense, not to mention common courtesy when entering someone’s yard? I mean seriously, contractors for the phone and cable companies park their trucks then they put out the safety cones around their vans but yet they don’t take the two seconds to knock on the door to the person’s yard in which they’re about to enter. That’s just rude, not to mention unsafe here! It doesn’t matter that there are notices on file that if anyone comes to the house, they are to knock first and get permission to enter yard, it’s just common sense and courtesy to do that. Apparently many in the South Florida area lack those two things.

If they lack common courtesy along with common sense I supposed that’d be proven while walking through the yard to the cable box and  listening to barking from within the yard/house, dodging a few land ‘mines’ from 100 lb doberman because they still haven’t grasped the idea there’s a dog in the yard? If that didn’t do it, not sure why the deep barking from within the house didn’t get their attention. Seems nothing really gets their attention until they see a 100 lb doberman come barreling around the corner of the house and then and only then did it enter their mind there was a dog there and perhaps they should’ve knocked on the door FIRST!

Or better yet is when they hear the chihuahua (all 5 lbs of him) barking insanely and they kinda laugh it off until…doberman comes charging out and scares the bajeebers out of the poor sole who’s standing there laughing at “what could the chihuahua do to me” or other comments like “oh wow such a big dog” in their sarcastic tone…until….doberman comes to ‘greet’ them. Then they’re singing a different tune!

C’mon common sense and courtesy could very well save them from a dog attack, but guess to them it somehow makes more sense to unlock a clip on a gate, enter the yard, dodge ‘land mines’ and take a chance in encountering anyone that may not want them in the yard (be it human or dog) rather than take 2 seconds and knock on the door to ask permission. Yea that makes sense! NOT!