Well here's a thing.
Recently our doorbell has rung and when we open the door nobody is there. A quick glance up and down the road confirms there is no evidence of giggling schoolboys or disappearing delivery vans. We put it down to icy conditions thinking water in the doorbell could turn to ice and that could make the contacts necessary to ring the bell.
But today we think we have worked out what is happening. On opening the door to find nobody there today, I did notice a caller at the house opposite. Hmmm! We decided to construct a careful experiment. If our doorbell is ringing when their doorbell is pressed could it be the same in reverse? Like naughty school children we pressed our doorbell and retreated to the living room to see our neighbour open his door and peer up and down the road in puzzlement.
We are going to have to have a conversation with our neighbours. No idea how to solve this but hope we do before our "open house" later in the new year when the whole church is invited here!
What fun!!
ReplyDeleteI did hear of a man who found that whenever you pressed his doorbell, the toilewt flushed. The plumber said it was a chain reaction.
[this is a very VERY old joke, Nobody flushes their loo with a chain anymore]