Higgins and Miggins Hate the Intercom
March 31st 2009 21:00
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Recently, some crazy woman has been coming to the block of units where I live and rings everyone’s intercoms late at night. When I answer she doesn’t respond apart from continuing to ring my intercom. I know it’s a woman because I went downstairs to have a look to see who it was. I didn’t recognise her so I in the end, when she wouldn’t stop ringing my intercom I told her I was going to call the police. She then left me alone but continued to ring my neighbours’ intercoms.
Now anyone who has lived in a block of units knows about how annoying ringing intercoms are. They don’t make a nice ding-dong noise. Instead, they emit this loud buzz which is enough to wake the dead.
This reminded my of my ex-neighbour’s cats, Higgins and Miggins. My old neighbour also had a crazy woman who liked to ring people’s intercoms as well. This drove my neighbour nuts as she also hated the sound. More importantly, it frightened her cats. They hated the sound of the intercom and she would have to calm them down.
My neighbour would run downstairs and nine times out of ten she would catch the woman out and ask why she was ringing her intercom. Unlike my crazy woman, this one would say she wanted someone to let her into the building so she could knock on her boyfriend’s door. But if that was the case, why not ring her boyfriend’s intercom to begin with? And if he was not answering, why would she still want to come into the building?
I don’t get this. Neither does my friend Fred, who works as a cleaner/caretaker for my old building. The way we saw it was if your friend wouldn’t let you in, why should anyone else?
It later turned out the boyfriend needed his personal space so he wouldn’t answer his intercom. In the end, the property manager received so many complaints about the intercom ringing the woman was banned from the building.
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