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Y'now those times when you wish the door would just open
when you got to it .Well if you could ring the bell before
you
got to it ,with a remote controll door bell, then you'd be
cured
One solution for [gizmo]
http://bz.pair.com/fun/loo.html
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Do you mean one's own door, or a door of someone else's abode? |
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My own, someone else's, both, I think, maybe... |
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Remote control door locks are baked, but I don't think that's what you mean. |
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I'm still not clear. You want to be able to ring a doorbell before you get to it? Any doorbell? If you're walking along pressing the button, people's doorbells would be going off? |
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Oh for crying out loud waugs, read the idea, it's all right there. What do I have to do, anyway . . . draw you a picture? |
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Hmm, "chappy-door-run" made simple. |
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I vote for bris to draw a picture ;-) |
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giz, why would you ring your own doorbell? What you need is a automatic door opener for your home like an automatic garage door opener. For other people's doors....well, not a good idea here....to much abuse would be possible (like driving down the road pushing a button and ringing all the doorbells in the neighborhood) |
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relocate the door bell button to a post or something on the walkway aproaching the house. problem fixed, make it a big button you can hit with you hip when your arms are full. |
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Doesn't seem worth the few seconds it would take for someone to come and open the door. Patience is a virtue, and waiting at a door takes very little of it. |
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. . . unless you are carrying heavily laden bags of groceries with the handles cutting into the skin on your fingers. At that point, seconds count and patience be damned. |
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Seems to me each of these ideas is somewhat baked in its own way. We already have remote doorbells, remote garage door openers, remote door locks, automatic door openers, comfortable plastic handle thingies for carrying grocery bags (or better yet, re-useable canvas grocery bags with large loop handles that fit over the shoulder). And if you want your neighbour/friend to already have the door open when you drop by for a visit, simply phone them before you get there. Where's PeterSealy when you really need him? Baked, baked, baked! |
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// What do I have to do, anyway . . . draw you a picture? // |
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I don't understand! I'm so confused! |
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I think a remote door opener activated by a biting motion would be useful. For when you have your hands full... |
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Just get a cell phone and ring them up a minute before you get to the door. |
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OK, I have it! Hands free voice activated cell phone combined with a) an interface in your house that allows you to dial in and open the door by voice command and b)a hydraulic door mechanism. |
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Or, just maybe, don't try to carry so much? |
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"Chappy-door-run"? Is that what you call it? |
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'Knock a Door Run' we call it.
I only came up with the idea because I had been playing
footie at the Park (avoiding all the dog poo) I was bursting
for the loo, I knocked on the door ('cos I don't have a
key), but my Mum took ages to answer because she was
on the telephone. I just thought if I could knock on the
door when I left the park, my mum would have answered
it and by the time I got home the door would be open.
Maybe a battery operated knock activator carried in my
pocket (or sock) which I could press at a good distance
from the house would alert my Mum to open the door. |
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you need a key gizmo, you live there after all! |
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Aye stupop. Almost as much fun as petty vandalism. |
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gizmo at the park: <activates "knock knock" device. |
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gizmo mum (not yet on the phone): "Is someone there?" <opens door> "Hello...hello...is anyone there?" <closes door>. |
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gizmo: <reaches door, knocks real loud> |
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gizmo mum (now on the phone): "No, Elinor, I don't know what it is, it sounds just like someone knocking on the door, but when I open the door, there's no one there! I s'pose I'll have the handyman 'round tomorrow to take a look at it. So your sister Louise is laid up with the bursitis, is she now?..." |
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Many thanks Bris for the wonderful picture. |
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Solution: Instead of a normal front door just have an automatic garage door. Push the button and voila. |
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"chappy door run" is a lot more PC than the American name for it... |
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Yeah, among other things. |
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