When you're too deaf to hear the doorbell...

[skalie]

....but the dog lets you know when it rings, what do you do when your friend takes the dog for a walk?

Sit and wait on the stairs?

[Mudflap]

Basic closed circuit TV cameras and monitors are hella cheap.

[/jailer]

[Billyman]

Does the closed circuit TV thing worth with the telephone ringing too?

[skalie]

When winter comes the telephone line attracts too much moisture to be able to be called, although it is possible to ring out.

[skalie]

.....get a doorman, should have thought of that before.

[MAC]

you know, an annoying cartoon character once pointed out that it's rabbit season duck season ...never mind.
On to my point:

When I first read this post I thought about the fact that although this presents a problem of convience for the deaf man it should reassure him of the dog's value...but life rarely seems to work that way.

So I asked myself, "if I was so dependant on one creature for something vital to the comfortable flow of my daily activities why would I let it go away from me?" But it seems that when we stress over the things that make our life better our life gets worse.

Then I realised that the things we WANT near us to make life better (when we HAVE other options) are the things we love.

And despite all the story books, love's power isn't to magically bridge some physical gap but to motivate you to cross that distance yourself.

A deaf man could figure out a hundred ways to know when someone's at the door and a man with perfect hearing can ignore a knock all day long but neither can force themselves to live with the knowledge that things they can love exist on both sides of the door and hinges & latches are our way of being together and seperate based solely on our will.

so, metaphorically speaking, I am currently waiting for my friend to return with my dog, despite not really caring who's at the door.

that's my allegory and I'm sticking to it

[Koliedrus]

As you should. It's fitting.


Originally posted by Mudflap
Basic closed circuit TV cameras and monitors are hella cheap.

[/jailer]

That discludes the chance of taking a nap while the dog is out.

High(ish)-tech would be a system that includes a wireless, short-range transmitter attached to the doorbell button which sends a signal to a small device, attached to the homeowner's waist or wrist, that vibrates.

Low-tech would be a rope/pully system attached to a bucket of water (or nest of bees, bag of sand, anvil etc) placed in strategic areas of the home.

I'd lean toward the high-tech stuff and hope that a power failure during walkies is a rare event.

[skalie]

....maybe a hearing aid.

[Koliedrus]

Sure, if the person in question is "hearing impaired" and not full-out deaf.

Ok, so this person presumably has some hearing function. And a dog.

Let's establish or eliminate the need for a power supply.

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It worked on sailing vessels.