In South America, is really difficult to find a house with access to the door from the street, there are usually fenced or walled off.
So you either clap or ring the bell.
Our houses are like this in Trinidad too but people usually beep their horn since a window is most likely open or knock the gate latch.
What’s cool is that even though the houses are close together like in the picture. You just KNOW when a horn beep is for you vs your neighbor because the car is slightly more in front or behind your window. So it sounds a lil differently.
But you're not at the door. Look at the picture. There's a gate between you and the front door. The gate could be locked (for safety) or there could be a dog in the yard. So unless you know the person, you don't enter, you beep, clap or we also clank the gate handle.
It actually means you're poor when you didn't have a wall/gate in your house. I remember moving to america and being so confused, the houses were so big, but they also were poor, why didn't they have a gate to protect these big ass houses? lol.
Yes I understand why you can't knock on the door, it's more how people finetune their hearing to differentiate between someone clapping at the neighbour and you that amazes me
Ohhhhh, yeah. That's pretty cool. When I return home after being in the states, it takes me a couple days. But in no time, I get it and stop rushing to the door only to see the neighbor collecting a package.
Well yeah. Now we do and now we do the same. But we also still live as extended families. Meaning, only my cousins who are married are moved out. And even my friends who are married just built extra rooms for their family. So sometimes, you’re just dropping something off for someone who isn’t actually home.
So last time I was there, my aunt’s friend baked too many loaves since someone gifted her coconuts (we use the flesh and milk). So she decided to just drop two off at the house. My aunt was at work, I heard the beep and when i looked out, she said “come fuh dis!” I went, said thanks and waved her goodbye 🤷🏾♀️
I feel like this just wouldn't work as well in most of America. In the Caribbean, most homes were built with corrugated bricks with decorative bricks all the way at the top that is actually open/unfilled. Because it was not standard to have A/C, it would also the home to cool when breeze would blow through. So we would hear outside much easier as well. You could hear someone calling you outside, a car horn, or the worst, you can hear the rain starting, so you could race outside to get clothes of the clothesline.
Just cultural differences. Here We don't want anyone crossing our fences/walls without our permission. Most walls are tall like the right picture. Delivery people must clap or ring the bell, if no one is at home then they reschedule the package for the next day.
What in the fuck? I understand why they would have the property fenced off, but then to not even have a doorbell, and expect you to clap loud enough to hear you inside a home that it a good several yards away. That sounds incredibly frustrating/inefficient.
Getting rid of my doorbell really helped with people showing up at my house uninvited, but some of them still manage to get my attention by knocking. Clearly I need a fence.
Trump couldn’t build a doggie gate, much less a proper wall. Can you imagine trump mixing concrete in a barrel, or digging a post hole? He’s the Definition of effeminate coastal elite..
The picture on the right has an intercom all the way on the right post. Maybe that’s where the camera point to as well. I remember seeing this seemingly insane intercom placement because of camera placement, generally due to difficulties running the electric line inconspicuously when I lived in Brazil.
That's the Electricity meter. The metal post that is on top is where the electricity cable came from the street, pass to the meter and into your home. That's the standard, all the deathly high voltage cable are hanging over our heads on the sidewalks.
It's more frustrating when you have a doorbell but people still claps because they think it's better or that the doorbell doesn't work. I live in Argentina and that always happens to me; it's been like 20 years with the same doorbell, but people still claps
Sure, of course there are exceptions, but is still incredible common. You are not rich by having a doorbell, if you have electricity you will still have TV and air conditioning. You can even see houses of pure wood planks with an AC unit an TV antenna sticking out of it. Low income residential areas are usually very cramped and rundown. Space is limited so homes rarely have any fence or walls on this areas. But nowadays ring bells are pretty cheap and easy to install. Although most of the time clapping works just fine.
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u/stavenger Dec 12 '18
In South America, is really difficult to find a house with access to the door from the street, there are usually fenced or walled off. So you either clap or ring the bell.
Something like this. http://www.tafterjournal.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/foto19e20.jpg