ECKLEBURG
2004-04-26 - 1:41 p.m.
So this past weekend Grublecake and I were lounging at home and watching “School of Rock” – the movie where a past his glory 70’s rock guy creates a rock band out of 10-year-olds while substitute teaching. All of a sudden, our doorbell rings, -- strange because it is about 10:00 at night and we know virtually nobody.
Grublecake ran to the bathroom to hide, while I, as the closer-to-sufficiently-dressed of the two of us, ran to answer the door. Only nobody is there. I have visions of ding-dong-ditchers, although our apartment has relatively few good safe hiding places, and if I was the kind of person inclining to partake in such an act, I would probably also have even more interesting things to do on a Saturday night.
So I go back inside and Grublecake comes out of hiding and we go back to our surfing and watching. Sure enough about 10 minutes later, the doorbell rings again. Gruble hides, I answer, and again nobody is there.
Now this second time, I do an even more thorough job of looking for people – I peek around the corner of the building, I check the hallway of the floor below ours. Nothing.
Now here is the strange part – in my through search, I found that not only were there no people, but there was also NO DOORBELL!
That’s right, our apartment doesn’t even have a doorbell. This led to a fair amount of confusion and question of reality on our part. So we went back to watching in surfing, not knowing what else to do.
Of course, about 5 minutes later, the definitely real and unmistakable sound of a doorbell once again sounds. This time Grublecake is smart enough to look on my computer screen and notice a banner ad for a real estate company on the webpage I was reading. This banner ad included a cartoon picture of a house, and sure enough if you move your mouse over cartoon door, it made a doorbell sound. Aye!
So we were had by a cheap banner ad! I guess this also goes on to demonstrate just how effectively one is able to block out the banner ads on websites – I would have never put 2+2 together had it not been for Gruble.
