Really just wanted to share this take with someone other than my dad and boyfriend because they don't even understand!!

I live in an urban area and go to a lot of apartment complexes. Of course I'll go to the leasing office first if it's still during business hours but often it's not. almost always there's a key card or code needed to get in and I'll wait a max of ten mins by the door for someone coming or going and they see my census badge and bag and clipboard and always let me in. Until today!

I was at an apartment complex that had two separate buildings. Someone exiting the first building held the door for me and of course, all the cases I needed were in the other building. I waited outside the other building and saw someone with two dogs walking towards the door so I waited, like always, and when he opened the door, I held it for him and the dogs and then he YANKED the door from my hand and slammed it shut so I couldn't get in. Rude. My dude could have just said that non-resident a aren't allowed (and one of the hundreds of other residents would have let me in anyway). I let out a little snicker. Someone else came by a few minutes later and let me in.

I went to my first case in this building, going towards the far end of the hallway, where the person was coming from. I looked at the notes and this person has refused multiple times and the notes said that the previous enumerator heard dogs barking and respondent did not answer the door. I knocked and then happily slipped a Nov through the door, praying to the only God I know that there was a relation between this door and the previous incident!