Hello, this is
Carleton, your doorman…
Our friends bought a new house a couple months ago, it’s on
a small lake and it’s lovely.
Last month we went out and saw the place for the first time
– it’s an early 1990’s built home and the original owners just moved out, so
they have some updating to do, you know – when the person whose house you just
bought tastes vary wildly from your own? Yeah, that kind of stuff, just takes a
little time.
Last month we were joking, the house has intercoms all over
the place. Funny, besides apartment
building entrances, who uses intercoms?
Were they ever popular? And well,
they must have been ‘cause there is more than one on each floor, in the garage,
the utility areas and outside as well, this place has tons of them.
Fast forward to this past weekend. Still fascinated by all the intercoms, you
notice them as you walk by, pretty much wherever you are walking (hmmm, big brother?). We are sitting out on the deck, getting ready
to eat the fabulous BBQ and I’ll be damned – not only did they figure out how
to use the decades old intercom, the silly thing is useful!
We are all around the table, our friend is in the kitchen getting paper towels and her son is nowhere to be found.
Boom, she’s on that intercom, you know – the one in every
room, utility areas and outside?
Yeah suddenly her voice is in loud speaker trailing
through the wilderness and across the lake, calling for her son. Like a flash he was there. There was NO possible way he could claim he
didn’t hear here or didn’t know dinner was about to be served. Inside our outside, no matter where he
was.
Poor little bugger, he’s never going to get away with
anything – the whole lake community will know when he is being searched for and
send him home if he is at their place.
The
intercom speakers are better than a cell phone he can lose, those suckers are
attached to that house, have been for 20 plus years and I would guess are going
to be there another 20 years.
This just goes to show you, one should never underestimate
“old” technology. The retro intercom,
well, I declare it pretty much Brilliant!!
I was looking for a 1970’s Rhoda clip (Title reference) I
found this sound bite http://rhodaonline.com/carlton_doorman.wav
or http://www.hark.com/clips/crqpvfszmk-this-is-carlton (he sounds drunk in this one)
AND I also found this great 1960’s movie clip…. http://movieclips.com/vLbK-the-party-movie-the-intercom/
I guess they have always been party fun!
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