Would you consider it rude for someone to poke their head through the window and loudly say hello if you don’t answer the door?
As per the title. Our upstairs neighbour is quite annoying and has a habit of expecting us to let people in for them (2 flats with a communal main entrance door).
She had a workman round this morning and let them in, then she went out as he went on lunch. She wasn’t back when he came back and so he knocked but we didn’t answer (the landlord usually gives the code to a keybox to his workmen so this was half out of the principal of not letting someone in for the neighbour, and I knew that worst case the workman would be able to still get access). I then get a text from neighbour asking us to let him in as she’s gone out, which I haven’t replied to.
Now after knocking and getting no answer, the workman poked his head through our bedroom window (we’re ground floor) and said hello, but we ignored it and were in different rooms anyway. He then came round to the living room right round the side and poked his head in to loudly say hello and I couldn’t ignore it as it was right next to me.
I then let him in. I’m conflicted because on one hand I feel like a dick for having to make the workman wait due to a principle with the neighbour, but on the other hand I feel like it was quite rude to knock on and call for us through the windows- in my opinion it doesn’t matter if you’re in or not, you can choose to not answer your door and that should be it.
Am I just being a twat about this?