The first thing I liked about my new house when I was originally came to look at it was that it had a video entry-phone. I remember the estate agent pointing it out to me as we went through the front door and I said something like “Cool. I’m definitely buying this house”.
As it turns out, I did and I think the video entry phone played a large part in my choice, which is stupid, because instead of buying a house I could have bought several thousand video entry phone systems.
Of course then I would have no-where to live so I wouldnÂ’t be able to install them, but still imagine having that many video entry phones. It would more than make up for the inconvenience.
The decision to buy this house due to its entry phone has paid off already. I was working in the office today, which is on the top floor in a converted loft. The doorbell rang (actually the door buzzer buzzed) and rather than having to trudge all the way downstairs, I merely had to go out to the landing and pick up the entry phone and I could hear and SEE who was there.
It was a stranger who was asking me if I would be interested in taking part in a survey about the BBC. I told him I was too busy and hung up and walked back into my office and carried on working.
In any other house I would have had to go all the way downstairs, tell him I wasnÂ’t interested and then head all the way back upstairs again. By which time I would be tired and would need to go back downstairs for a cup of squash. Or I would have ignored the doorbell and spent the rest of the day wondering if my future wife had been at the door and I had missed my one opportunity to meet her, so I would die a sad and lonely old man.
But thanks to my video entry-phone I neither had to do all that exercise, or worry that I had lost another potential spouse (I didnÂ’t fancy the bloke at all. Not only was he unattractive, but I think I deserve somebody better than a door-to-door canvasser. IÂ’m not being arrogant, just honest).
I have saved valuable work minutes and have calculated that I only have to be visited by one unwelcome visitor a week for the next 579 years and the investment I have made on this huge video entry-phone holder that I call home will have paid off.
