!Tuesday, June 06, 2006
If you stay in a condo, you should have the same problem as me:
The dreaded intercom.
I never actually know what to say to the intercom when someone buzzes. If you say something too long, the person will already go pass the gate thing and not listen. If you say something too short, the person will not know you pressed the button and buzz again.
Throughout my life, I have tried the following lines:
1. "Come in!"
2. "Hello." -The problem with saying this is that it forces the other person to answer back.
3. "Open Sesame"
4. "What's the secret password?"
5. "Who are you?"
6. "May I take your order please?" -The common response for all such stupid questions is 'Huh?"
And some really creepy people, intercom first-timers, I suppose, stare right into the camera so when you pick up the receiver you get the shock of your life- this pimply, black and white ghost-like face staring right at you.
And my brother now answers the intercom with this mystically spooky voice: "enter" when once I was walking home from the bus stop at night, and then I really got freaked out because my condo is right next to Bukit Timah Hill and all the WW2 ghost stories etc. it scared the hell out of me.
And Andrea's condo is quite cool in the sense that once you pick up the receiver you can see from the camera whichever unlucky soul that happens to be standing near the gate. And you can say really creepy things through the receiver and the other person can hear it. Haha.
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If you stay in a condo, you should have the same problem as me:
The dreaded intercom.
I never actually know what to say to the intercom when someone buzzes. If you say something too long, the person will already go pass the gate thing and not listen. If you say something too short, the person will not know you pressed the button and buzz again.
Throughout my life, I have tried the following lines:
1. "Come in!"
2. "Hello." -The problem with saying this is that it forces the other person to answer back.
3. "Open Sesame"
4. "What's the secret password?"
5. "Who are you?"
6. "May I take your order please?" -The common response for all such stupid questions is 'Huh?"
And some really creepy people, intercom first-timers, I suppose, stare right into the camera so when you pick up the receiver you get the shock of your life- this pimply, black and white ghost-like face staring right at you.
And my brother now answers the intercom with this mystically spooky voice: "enter" when once I was walking home from the bus stop at night, and then I really got freaked out because my condo is right next to Bukit Timah Hill and all the WW2 ghost stories etc. it scared the hell out of me.
And Andrea's condo is quite cool in the sense that once you pick up the receiver you can see from the camera whichever unlucky soul that happens to be standing near the gate. And you can say really creepy things through the receiver and the other person can hear it. Haha.