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Fri 2006-03-10 14:09
The imaginative malice of hardware
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[identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.comFri 2006-03-10 15:44


You know you've got a problem when the door speakers go 'pleased to be of service' and swoosh open with a contented sigh.

Demonic behaviours in automatic doors... This is fertile soil:

  • Unlocking and immediately re-locking just as you put your key down and push the door handle;
  • Sounding the 'open' tone after someone's gone through, so you *think* you don't need the key;
  • Spontaneously unlocking and swinging open on a draughty day;
  • Unlocking every other door in the corridor eaxcept the one you keyed;
  • Intermittent 'open' tone, with random noncorrelated 'unlocked' status;
  • Unlocking and blowing open in your face;
  • Replacing the 'open' tone with static and faint sounds of distorted voices chanting *something* backwards;

You know, there's a lot of material to be written about hauntings & possession of familiar household and office furnishings and fixtures.



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[identity profile] mooism.livejournal.comFri 2006-03-10 15:59
I’d worry if they started following me down the corridor.
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comFri 2006-03-10 16:32
If unlocking door n unlocks doors f(n), how do you unlock door 1...? Also, see 13 ghosts.
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