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Show Go Love/114 13. When you come to the home you've left behind, your old front door with the eight-penny nail driven into its face for the Christmas wreathe, do you ring the bell, knock, or just walk on across the threshold like you were never driven away. Say? Do you bustle your wife and daughter in front of you or stand first to meet the other side head on? Is it best to turn and look at Jess Greyback's yard while the eye looks you over through the peep-hole, or press right up so the eye sees an eye? And how about this, the knock itself, what's the right way to do that-what code should be tapped on the door of the dead? Three slow, somber knocks? The staccato six? knock-knock-knock-knock-knock-knock? Is it inappropriate to the musical seven-knock duh-duh- duh- duh-duh, duh-duh Beverly Hillbillies knock? Think about it. How long between knocks? And how many separate times do you knock before giving up? Is it proper to stand knocking at a door for, say, five minutes, while your daughter turns cartwheels in the nicely-mowed front yard and the forty-year old fourth grade neighbor's rabbits squeal in the heat and hump each other and shit through the chicken wire cages beyond the yard swing. Is it appropriate to ring the doorbell after first knocking and visa versa? Which comes first, knock or bell? If you |
