{"id":140,"date":"2013-09-13T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2019-10-21T04:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T09:28:02","slug":"casual-friday-phone-knocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Casual Friday &#8212; Phone Knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/cncomic\/cn041126.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/cncomic\/comics\/041126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the advent of the cell phone brought with it the concept of phone knocking.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what happens:\u00a0 Someone unexpectedly shows up at your door, might be telling you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industrialdoorcompany.com\/repair\/\">click here to learn about Commercial door repair sacramento<\/a>, instead of knocking, they call you on the phone to tell you they&#8217;re there.\u00a0 This is disconcerting\u2014even now\u2014but in 2004, when this comic was posted, it was alarming.\u00a0 For a while after cell phones became ubiquitous, the assumption remained that people called from landlines.\u00a0 No really good reason for that except that human perceptions are slow to change.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the phone knock, unlike other means of announcing your presence (the doorbell, the conventional knock, laying on your car horn like you&#8217;re an unsupervised\u00a0five-year-old with no concept of &#8220;3am&#8221;), has (or had) the double whammy of allowing your victim to breathe easy for a few moments, thinking they had time to prepare for your arrival, before pulling the rug out from under them.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m saying is, if you&#8217;re going to phone at all, phone when you&#8217;re about to leave, not when\u00a0 your purse dog is doing his diddles in the petunias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the advent of the cell phone brought with it the concept of phone knocking.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what happens:\u00a0 Someone unexpectedly shows up at your door, might be telling you to click here to learn about Commercial door repair sacramento, instead of knocking, they call you on the phone to tell you they&#8217;re there.\u00a0 This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}