[webheart]

What’s over? Just don’t buy a ring doorbell and don’t talk to alexa. Not that difficult. It’s stupid to even have a ring doorbell. There’s no paperboy collecting, Girl Scout cookies can be bought online, deliveries are announced by text messages and email, home invasion robbers don’t ring doorbells, most people don’t want to buy things from sales people who come to your door, and if someone is coming over, you already know they are coming. If you aren’t home and someone rings the doorbell you can’t do anything. Hi I am not home go ahead and rob the place.

As far as Alexa, I don’t like talking to machines. I guess I am grumpy. I don’t use self checkout because it is always telling me what to do. Other people like being told to put the item in the bagging area. Not me. I would rather talk to a rude cashier than have a machine tell me what to do. Same as I absolutely will not try to converse with one of those phone answering systems. I’m sorry I didn’t understand that.

[TexasGator]

“If you aren’t home and someone rings the doorbell you can’t do anything.”

You can tell them to leave before you get the 12 gauge and calls 911.

[who knows what evil?]

When the ‘voice’ at self-checkout starts playing instructions to my wife, I sneer in a loud voice ‘Shut up, Alexa!’...most patrons in the vicinity smile or LOL.

[usconservative]

I guess I am grumpy. I don’t use self checkout because it is always telling me what to do. Other people like being told to put the item in the bagging area. Not me. I would rather talk to a rude cashier than have a machine tell me what to do. Same as I absolutely will not try to converse with one of those phone answering systems. I’m sorry I didn’t understand that.

I can relate. Oh, and get off my lawn!

[CodeToad]

Totally agree. Seems the younger generations are drama queens that like making hysterical declarations.

[skr]

Criminal activity caught on Ring doorbells:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRDZ5X0pj8

At the very least, some of the porch pirates left without stealing anything because the homeowner, home or not, was able to warn them to leave.

Surveillance cameras aren’t “stupid”. What’s wrong is not the camera itself but that people unauthorized and unknown by the cameras’ owners have access

[\/\/ayne]

These make pretty good doorbells.

[cgbg]

What is a doorbell?

What is a neighbor?

This thread is very confusing for this country boy...

Now if Alexa gets connected to auto horns, then we have a problem...

;-)

[SamAdams76]

I'm totally with you on most of your rant but we part company on the self-checkout. I love the self-checkout. Gets me in and out of the stores quickly. I guess I'm a natural whiz at scanning things as it never gave me any trouble. I ignore the "place in bagging area" messages as I just toss the items back into my cart and bail. Nobody gives me a hard time.

I have boxes in my car trunk to place the items for toting into the house so I don't even worry about bagging anything.