Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 06, 2023

Yeah, times have changed. My wife, with her phone, can see me put the dog out thru the doorbell in our new house!

No doorbell at my apartment; you just knock on the door (no, there’s no decorative knocker either).

What else is a doorbell suppose to do?

Eh ? So what else you expect doorbell to do? Tell knock knock jokes?

So Anita Ward is a plugger?

Another … True That … Moment !

“Dead as a doornail, dumb as a doorbell”: Advertising slogan for A-Eye® Door Safe.

About half of the Pluggers’ doorbells don’t do anything.

Oh, we (even though we’re Pluggers!) have doorbell cams! They even ping my phone when someone rings the bell, and I can talk to the person. Sometimes when I’m at work I check the back door one and see if my husband is out there having a smoke.

A hundred years ago when doorbells were new, same strip: “A plugger’s doorbell is his knuckles.”

Yep.. all these new surveillance tools disguised as doorbells and watching everything about you, just like your TV, these new smart refrigerators, etc…

If Pluggers didn’t have doorbell cameras then the Nextdoor app would be a mighty boring place.

And the newfangled ones like Ring can be hacked so thieves know when packages are delivered, etc.

Doorbell? I don’t have one.

Not so.. that one goes Ding- Dong.

I don’t even have a doorbell. If you want in, knock, crack the door open and holler (and yes, I live in a city).

Triggers the dog to ‘protect his pack’. "Just doing my job ma’am. "

And it doesn’t have a name, unless you count “doorbell.”