You Have Been Denied

I work out of my house, which means that when I'm in town I'm pretty much home for most of the day. I live in a building with multiple units and like most apartment-style houses guests need to be buzzed into the building. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I'm home or the fact that people buzz as if it were a game of roulette, but not a single week goes by when I don't get a request from a stranger to enter my building.

Despite popular belief, I am not the doorman or a security agent, nor will I be responsible for allowing random people roam around my building. It's not my problem if someone misses a package delivery because of my refusal to let UPS into the building nor is it my life-fulfilling duty to buzz in a dirty hippie because their friend can't hear the buzzer over their wicked awesome music. Personally I would freak the fuck out if some random person banged on my door without first ringing the buzzer. I'm fairly convinced that the UPS man, FedEx worker, and the sushi guy are stand-up people, but I still meet them outside because I don't want them anywhere near my unit. My neighbor poor Mrs. S is half-deaf and probably wouldn't hear my screams anyhow.

I can't understand how someone without a key would expect to enter a building they don't live in because they made a compelling case over a squakbox. I have no idea who most of my neighbors are, which is why I seriously don't care about denying their shady friends and deliverymen entrance into my brick fortress. It's 2008 though and I honestly have to wonder if unauthorized people actually think that I'd buzz them in just because they perceive me as a trusting character. So far I haven't fielded one complaint from my neighbors about my buzzer surliness and I certainly hope that they follow similar protocol.