Jill Murray
If you buzz my apartment and ask me to let you into the building and I don’t know you or the person you’re really trying to buzz, I am not going to be a sport and let you in. Neither will the Delightful Rapper.
I’m not trying to be rude, that’s just where I draw the line, and if you were my mom, you’d be behind me on this. I think if you consult your manual, in Appendix A, subsection L, you’ll see that any letting in of random strangers would be in direct contravention of the logical precept of trying to keep random strangers out. It might, in fact, blow your mind to realize that not letting strangers into the building is the exact intention of having a buzzer system in the first place– the very same buzzer system that is generating this paradox for you at this exact moment. That’s right. If not for The System, we would not even be having this conversation. Whaddya think of that?
Don’t get snippy with me. I want to keep cranky people out of rainbow fairy marshmellow land too.
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man, i am So With You. my roommates think i’m a big meanie for not letting people in, but come ON: this is new york city.
and why exactly should i let you in, if i don’t know you, and the person you’re supposedly visiting isn’t going to let you in? this makes no sense.
however, in total contradiction to this practice, i tend to let random people in if they show up at the door while i’m unlocking it. i think because i’ve seen them, i feel better. this is not logical.
Aleza, Ruby, may I call you Ruby?
I am totally with you on this. I too have let people in when they show up while I am letting myself in, and I too have spent many a long walk up the stairs and down the hall to my appartment contemplating the meaning of my contradictory actions.
But there you go. We are women of many layers. Layers which must be kept safe behind at least two layers of locked doors, at least 50% of the time.
That’s just all there is to it. No need let logic into the argument. Did logic even have the courtesy to buzz? No. Sorry logic, you’re staying outside with that weird guy who says he knows some girl named Jessica down the hall.