• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My grandparents’ house was built this way. The front door was facing the street and connected to a family room that they never used, while the back door was facing the carport and connected to a sitting room that they were always sitting in. So the back door was regarded as the front door, even by the neighbors.

    Even they were surprised when someone rang the front doorbell.

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      7 months ago

      My childhood home was like that too. We only ever went in the garage door on the side of the house so the front door felt foreign to me and the few times we used it felt weird.

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        We also just go in through the garage. Either via car or through the door at the back. The only people using the actual main door are guests.

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    7 months ago

    I see this a lot in car-dependent cities… the street entrance is closed and you have to go through the parking lot, which just sucks especially if the neighborhood is otherwise walkable.

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      My second favorite sandwich place, the front door is by the counter and the back door (by the parking lot, behind the place) is behind bathrooms, on the other side of the dining hall. They have both open though. Their city planner, they have no fucking clue what to do with downtown despite everyone there wanting it to be walkable. I’m pretty sure there’s significant grift going on. They install stoplights then take them out on the main drag downtown every five years and that’s where they are.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    7 months ago

    To get around back, go left. Because left is right and right is wrong so the only thing left that’s right is left.

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      7 months ago

      The one on the left is on the right, the one in the middle is on the left, the one on the right is in the middle and the one at the rear is a Methodist.

  • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    My front door faces the back by normal standards. The side of our house facing the road has no door. Our one door opens onto the porch, and having that porch face the road instead of the forest would have been ridiculous.

    You would not believe the number of people who walk up the driveway, don’t see a door, and get absolutely flummoxed about where to go… The gravel path CLEARLY goes around to the other side of the house, but that is not hint enough. We have had people knock at our bedroom window instead of following the path to find a door.

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      7 months ago

      You have to ask it a carefully crafted question, something along the lines of “if I were to go through other door, would I then be outside the house” and if it says yes you have to go through it but if it says no then you have to go through the other one.

  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    growing up in my grandmothers house, she never ever ever used the front door except if there was some kind of event like a funeral. It was like, the fancy door.

    they also almost never used the living room except when people were visiting.

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    7 months ago

    Everything you know is wrong, black is white, up is down and short is long- Weird Al Yankovic