I found that in recent antisocial times, more and more people elect to ignore doorbells and not even check the door unless they specifically know someone they expected is there. They just act like nobody is home
To be fair, the vast majority of the time someone is at my door that I’m not expecting, they’re trying to sell me shit I don’t care about. I do not answer my door.
one of the perks of living in an apartment, the outer door is locked so if someone’s knocking on my door it all but has to be the neighbours and they’re not gonna bother me for no reason.
I live online, no one I know lives anywhere close enough to casually visit me, let alone just pop over unannounced. If someone rings my doorbell they either want to sell me something or are dropping a package off. Either way, why go to the door?
My door is just really far from my bed, and opening it to then see someone I don’t want to see is just too much effort. And everybody I want to see knows to text ahead.
I don’t live online, but I don’t have friends in my neighborhood. In addition, I work from home and I record music at home. My friends know not to drop by unannounced because they could be interrupting one of those things. In that case they spent half an hour driving to my place just to catch me grumpy and telling them it’s not a great time.
Your neighbor telling you that you left your car’s window open. Or you have a leakage/broken pipe/your roof is on fire/something is wrong that is advised to be taken care sooner rather than later.
There can be legit reasons why people are trying to warn you in your home who don’t know your online handles.
It made sense when everyone had landlines. Buzzer in a multi-unit building rings the phone in reach unit. Door intercom used to talk to the occupant, and usually they could control door access by hitting ‘9’ or whatever to unlock the door and admit whoever was there.
Saved the building from needing to have a separate intercom system wired to every unit, just use the phone lines that are already going to be there.
Fast forward a few decades, land lines are gone, everyone has a cell, and if more than one person lives in a unit the person with the one the door rings might be out and the person at home has no way to admit people, while the person elsewhere still has to answer door calls.
On the upside(?), it allowed us to be extremely sure that UPS was lying to us when they told us they tried to deliver and no one answered the door. Had them tell us that several times with no missed calls on the phone. :P
Why did they not just put a dedicated door answering phone disguised as a doorbel in the apartments? Why am I even asking probably because it would cost money.
I’m not sure what you mean by “disguised as a doorbell”. It’s for controlled access buildings where you need to be able to talk to the person at the door and selectively admit them.
That’s the system I had in the previous two buildings I lived in instead of those wall panels you are in many places, much less trouble for the manager since it doesn’t require more wires running all over the building.
Maybe some people have this weird technology where they put things in or over their ears to hear only what’s in the device they’re texting through and can’t hear any outside noises.
If only we had some sort of technology to let us know that someone is at the door.
Ring the doorbell, or knock like a normal fucking person.
I found that in recent antisocial times, more and more people elect to ignore doorbells and not even check the door unless they specifically know someone they expected is there. They just act like nobody is home
To be fair, the vast majority of the time someone is at my door that I’m not expecting, they’re trying to sell me shit I don’t care about. I do not answer my door.
I get mad if you set the dogs off lol
one of the perks of living in an apartment, the outer door is locked so if someone’s knocking on my door it all but has to be the neighbours and they’re not gonna bother me for no reason.
Why in the world do people do that? Are they that damn afraid of each other?
I live online, no one I know lives anywhere close enough to casually visit me, let alone just pop over unannounced. If someone rings my doorbell they either want to sell me something or are dropping a package off. Either way, why go to the door?
My door is just really far from my bed, and opening it to then see someone I don’t want to see is just too much effort. And everybody I want to see knows to text ahead.
I don’t live online, but I don’t have friends in my neighborhood. In addition, I work from home and I record music at home. My friends know not to drop by unannounced because they could be interrupting one of those things. In that case they spent half an hour driving to my place just to catch me grumpy and telling them it’s not a great time.
Your neighbor telling you that you left your car’s window open. Or you have a leakage/broken pipe/your roof is on fire/something is wrong that is advised to be taken care sooner rather than later. There can be legit reasons why people are trying to warn you in your home who don’t know your online handles.
They have my phone number.
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How is it a problem?
It means he’s too much of a damn shut in and that’s not healthy.
I see you’ve never lived in a shitty apartment/one where the door bell calls your phone but can only be programmed for one number
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An old one.
It made sense when everyone had landlines. Buzzer in a multi-unit building rings the phone in reach unit. Door intercom used to talk to the occupant, and usually they could control door access by hitting ‘9’ or whatever to unlock the door and admit whoever was there.
Saved the building from needing to have a separate intercom system wired to every unit, just use the phone lines that are already going to be there.
Fast forward a few decades, land lines are gone, everyone has a cell, and if more than one person lives in a unit the person with the one the door rings might be out and the person at home has no way to admit people, while the person elsewhere still has to answer door calls.
On the upside(?), it allowed us to be extremely sure that UPS was lying to us when they told us they tried to deliver and no one answered the door. Had them tell us that several times with no missed calls on the phone. :P
Why did they not just put a dedicated door answering phone disguised as a doorbel in the apartments? Why am I even asking probably because it would cost money.
I’m not sure what you mean by “disguised as a doorbell”. It’s for controlled access buildings where you need to be able to talk to the person at the door and selectively admit them.
Well I understand that. I meant to make it look like an intercom while the inside is basically just a landline.
Because the whole fucking reason was to reduce costs, since everyone is going to have a landline anyway.
My building is like this, it was built in the 60s the concept of multiple phones in a house hold was completely unthinkable at the time.
I fucking know. I meant why did they not do that after landlines stopped being used.
That’s the system I had in the previous two buildings I lived in instead of those wall panels you are in many places, much less trouble for the manager since it doesn’t require more wires running all over the building.
Maybe some people have this weird technology where they put things in or over their ears to hear only what’s in the device they’re texting through and can’t hear any outside noises.