‘Postmen and tradesmen have been sharing the strangest things they’ve seen in people’s houses – 21 uncomfortably close encounters

11.

‘Used to do electric and gas meter reading. One house I went to the guy had lots of shotgun shells on his kitchen table.’
–bigfatdog353

12.

‘A girl wearing a gorilla mask on a skateboard with a video camera.’
–Wolfdarkeneddoor

13.

‘A man on his hands and knees who made barking sounds pretending to be a dog running to the door as I delivered his mail.’
–devildance3

14.

‘Former postman here. On my round there was a long terraced street with a gap in the middle where several houses appeared to have been demolished, leaving a patch of waste ground. In the middle of it one lone house still stood, it had broken windows and looked completely abandoned. I had only ever delivered the occasional piece of junk mail there, so assumed it was unoccupied.

‘One day, to my surprise, there is a parcel for that address. So I knock on the door, and it is opened by the palest man I’ve ever seen. He looked like he hadn’t seen daylight for at least 20 years. He takes the parcel without a word and closes the door. Never saw him again, and that was the last time I ever saw any signs of life from that house.’
–Ergophobe470

15.

‘I used to do grocery delivery and a lady once answered the door in tiny leopard print underwear too. Usually if they were going to be in undies on opening the door then they were male. To be fair I’ve seen way more weird stuff as a paramedic since then.’
–Armodeen

16.

‘My husband (runs a plumbing business) once got shown into the house and to the work that needed doing by a 12-year-old, while his parents sat on the sofa playing computer games!’
–ShockingHair63

17.

‘I found £6k of heroin behind someone’s kitchen unit when I was installing their washing machine.’
–rockdecasba

18.

‘Lots of couples having blazing rows on the other side of the door, answering with a smile on their face and then immediately going back to screaming at each other.’
–Latter_Table193

19.

‘I used to deliver leaflets, and I once saw a bloke washing his car with a watering can and a brush. The sort of brush that usually comes with a dustpan.’
–CyndersParadigm

20.

‘I had to move a bed in Manc/UK to do some wiring, full double divan, couldn’t budge it. I was a strong 20-year-old, called the apprentice, still couldn’t shift it. I said ‘pull the drawers out, see if it’s fixed to the floor’, and each drawer was stacked with bundles of £1000 stacks of £20 notes….. Before you ask, I didn’t take a one.’
–YSOSEXI

21.

‘A scuba diver friend was trying his gear at home. He was wearing a dry suit, like a wetsuit but not rubber. He was wearing two air tanks on his back. So he answered the door looking like he’d just come out of a scuba diving session in the sea.’
–ReddityKK

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