Door Buzzer Roulette - a game for really, really stupid people
Created | Updated Aug 26, 2004
Hey! Need to get into a building? Faced with a block of door buzzers? Why not just push them all and let the first person who answers let you in?
Asshole.
This is why not:
When you press the first button, the buzzer goes off in that flat. The person in there lays down their lunch, puts on their slippers and walks to the intercom, picking it up...
...just as you press the second button and cut them off. You can *only* talk to the last flat you buzzed. Of course, now the person in the second flat is pausing the video they were watching and walking to the intercom, picking it up...
...just as you press the third button. This goes on until everyone in the building has been interrupted in whatever they're doing and is now standing holding a dead intercom, at which point...
...you try the "Services" button, cutting off the last phone you called. For the next two or three minutes you're standing outside wondering why there's nobody in the building, while everybody in the building is replacing their intercom, calling you an asshole and returning to their business.
At which point, of course, you press all the buttons again, "just to be sure". Then you go back to your place of work and tell them you couldn't gain access because "nobody was in".
Asshole.
(The moral? Push one button and wait for a response. After you've given enough time, say, for the person to get out of the bath and reach the door intercom without any response, only then should you try the next buzzer.)
This has been a public service announcement.
