Do you get irritated if you are disturbed by a phone or doorbell while sleeping?

it's true, i got disturbed if a phone and doorbell ringing while i was sleeping, especially if it's doesn't stop usually if the phone keeps ringing i will pick up with an anger tones speak, and after that i unplugged the cable phones and continue sleeping ...

Yes, I get irritated when the doorbell or phone rings after I've gone to sleep. It's nearly always some drunk that dialed a wrong number, but I'm afraid not to answer it because it just could be an emergency. In the 50+ years that we've been married, there have been real emergencies and imagined emergencies. The doorbell is more likely to indicate a real emergency than the phone, but even that has proved to be a fake one. Once when there was a policeman at our door at a late hour, the emergency was my husband's ex wanting to know where he was. At the time, we had been at the same address for at least 15 years. She had our address. We had just had our phone number changed and made it unlisted. There was NO emergency. However, twice the knock brought news that we were about to get flooded. This was for real. We had only a few minutes to get our clothes on and get out.

I feel disturbed. Because, according to my observation, hardly it is really urgent. Some people are like that they will disturb on unearthly hours by nature. I am planning to put a board outside my door -- 'Sleeping, please do not disturb.'

Hey, for me this is very much irritating somebody makes a loud noise...Coz its very hard to me to drop to sleep...And if after that somebody breaks the silence... then...I cant control and I used to shout...and scream and ...

Most of the people who are calling us are telemarketers who are kind of harassing, not all of them, but a few of them, and it's quite annoying to be woken up by it. They aren't people in trouble. If they were people in trouble,I'd be more understanding, however!!

Yes, i agree that most of the peoples irritates when some one calls or ring doorbell while they are sleeping. But when some ring your doorbell at night, then it would be risky to open the door directly. So for that i suggest you for a video door phone, which helps you to see and talk to the person who is outside their home premises. http://videodoorphone.org/vdp-manufacturers/toyama-video-door-phone.html

Nobody ever called my house after i was in bed. BUT it has happened way too often that i get awoken by the phone in the morning on my day off from work, and that pisses me off royally!! Especially when im telling the other person at the end of the line that i was sleeping, and instead of saying they'll call me back, they keep on talking! Like hello? didn't u just hear , i am sleeping?? If it's a family member or friend in trouble, i will take the call and not be mad, but if they just want to talk and don't let me get back to sleeping, then i get upset.

You bet I do...I have made it clear to everyone what time I take a nap and boy, am I a bear if I get woke up. Most ppl understand and respect it but there's a couple that just ignore it and do it anyways. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

Hi mercuryman3a, Definitely! If I am sleeping, then it is my rest time and I would want to be woken! That is also why I switch off my mobile phone at night. But if the door bell or house phone rings at night, it doesn't smell good... I would ask for God's blessings before I get up and answer the call. As for what you said, yes if someone is calling you at that hour, he must be really in need of help - once I ascertain it is a serious call, no, I would not be irritated. I will just do my best to help.

Yes.I dont get sleep in the afternoons.I sleep only on nights.I feel very angry if am tired or planned to go anywhere in the early mornings.Even then i manage myself and answer them.

Frankly, I would be very upset to hear the phone at inappropriate moment, it must make me much crazy, but the fact is that, I have to pick it up and show a very positive attitude, escepecially at the midnight. When a person call me at midnight or some unimagine time, she or he must have something trouble and want me to help her or him. It's my friend's trouble and I must help her or him, though I am tired adn upset, I still pick the phone up and happy to say: Hello

Yes i feel irritated when i am disturbed by a phone or doorbell while sleeping.I am in a very deep sleep relaxing then someone rings the bell.I have to get up walk a long passage and then open the door.Sometimes there is no one at the door which makes me really angry.If i am not feeling well then i just leave the bell ringing.

I'm definitely irritated if it is a nonsense call but if it is an important call I will not mind at all.When a doorbell rings while I'm asleep it must be important or else we will be both in trouble especially when I'm tired I don't want to be disturbed because my heart usually palpitates.

I get irritated, but I never let the person know that. Nothing is ever solved by yelling at someone. If I don't feel like answering, I ignore the call. Though I do listen to the answering machine to ensure that it isn't urgent. If I'm sleeping at night and its something stupid, I just let the person know that its not okay to call me this late, end of story.

I dont get irritated by such matters. As you also mentioned that if somebody is trying call you or knocking at your door on such odd timings he must be in some trouble and what i think its really a feels me good that my friend or a known one is calling me for help in is trouble times. Friendship is based on trust and if someone is come to you with a lot of hope and you dont respond him well how much he will be disappointed. Every one a friend of good times but i really try be a friend of bad times for my friends and who who gets irritated and handle pplz rudely could never find a help for their own bad times.

I do get angry and irritated when I hear the door bell ring while I am sleeping. But after I hear the person out and understand why he/ she has disturbed me at the odd hour I may cool down a bit. But if I find that I have been unnecessarily disturbed then I do yell at the person.

I don't think anybody's ever come to my door in the middle of the night, but we have gotten phone calls a few times. We usually won't answer it if its while we're sleeping, we have an answering machine, and if we hear them leave a message then I'll get up to check it or call them back. I just think that if its important or an emergency they should leave a message, I will listen to it.

The only time I get mad is during the week. Especially because all of our friends know that I wake up early for work so I feel by calling or knocking on our door it is being disrepectful to me. During the weekends I don't really care. I am a night owl most the time and am usually up until about 2-3am so it doesn't usually bother me then.

My phone doesn't ring in the middle of the night..If it did it would really scare me because I would think that something had happened to someone in my family..The thing that bugs me is my phone always seems to ring when I am taking a nap or washing dishes or cooking or when I am in the bathroom..Almost always it is a telemarketer. It very seldom rings when I am sitting down doing nothing.

Yes, I do because it seems like as long as I am up nobody wants to cal or come by but as soon as I lay down the phone wants to ring and people all of a sudden wants to come by.