10 Lessons Doctor Who Teaches Us About Christmas
8. If Out Carol Singing Avoid The Blue Doors
The Doctor likes to choose his friends carefully. He has been known to stalk them through their childhood to prep them or test their eligibility. And they tend to share his aversion to some of the most irritating aspects of human life.
Take Amy Williams, nee Pond, for instance. You really would not want to get on the wrong side of this fiery redhead - just ask her long suffering husband, Rory. One of her most intense dislikes is carol singers. If you happen to make a house call, hoping to bring some Christmas cheer, you might end up with a wet face from Amy's water pistol.
The Doctor gifted Amy and Rory with the town house, and it is no coincidence that he asked the estate agent for a property with a TARDIS blue door. It’s more than possible that behind any blue door on your street, lies another former companion of the Time Lord, and the chances are that they too might make your Christmas a bleak midwinter.
The Doctor doesn’t like carollers either, and once left a very polite notice to ward them away from knocking on his door. Even if you stumble across a police box without such a note, remain cautious - the TARDIS has a habit of forcing the Doctor to be festive and might have sneakily removed it.
Best advice - avoid blue doors altogether, jazz up your carols with a good guitar riff or hire the services of Welsh opera singer, Katherine Jenkins; probably the only person whose voice can break through the Doctor’s frosty exterior.