Answer The Door?

I don't remember being taught to answer the door.  I do remember having safety measures handed down to me from somebody about how to answer the door.  Make sure to look and see who is at the door before you open it, if you can.  If you don't know the person, make sure the safety chain is latched before you open the door.  Don't give out any personal information.  Don't have sex with the person at the door more than twice without wearing a condom.  Don't eat cheese 30 minutes before getting in the pool, or you might have hair grow on your palms.  There were other things, too, that I can't remember.

The other day, I ordered a pizza for dinner.  My son was sitting in the front room, and I was tucked away in the bedroom.  I heard the doorbell ring, and figured it was the pizza delivery person.  I heard the chair in the front room creak, indicating my son was getting up.  I figured he was going to answer the door.  By the time I got to the front room, I noticed that he had moved away from the door and into the kitchen, almost hiding.  I was a bit confused. 

After getting the pizza, I asked him why he didn't get the door.  He told me that he never got the door.  I asked why.  He said because it was usually somebody selling something and he didn't want to be bothered with them.  That sounded like a decent answer to me.  I don't want to be bothered with people selling stuff.  He went on to say that he was at home most of the day and there were lots of people who came to the door selling things.  If he had known it was a pizza, he would've behaved differently, he told me.   I took a stab and said that he had gotten up and moved away from the door so that the person at the door might not see him through the window and stay at the front door longer than needed.  He said that was right.  Then he asked me if that was a bad thing, and I didn't have an answer for him.  I told him I'd get back to him with an answer.

I don't know how long ago that was, but it was a while, and I'm still uncertain how I feel about it.