A friend shows up at your door without calling first. Nice surprise or rude?

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In a wisehumans poll of 116 voters across 7 countries (26 August 2026), 58% chose "Nice surprise". Source: wisehumans.org/q/a-friend-shows-up-at-your-door-without-calling-first

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<p>Source: <a href="https://wisehumans.org/q/a-friend-shows-up-at-your-door-without-calling-first">wisehumans.org</a>, 26 August 2026. CC BY 4.0.</p>

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Self-selected online poll, no accounts: one vote per browser per day, capped per network address to limit repeat voting. Country derived at the network edge; age and profession self-reported from fixed lists. Buckets under 25 votes fold into "Everywhere else"; buckets under 5 are never published. Not weighted, not representative of any population.