That one's easy. If the neighbors have more than one person in their family, they assign someone to wait for the guests in the lobby. If it's just one person, then he or she goes down to the lobby at the time when the guests are supposed to arrive to let them in. It's what pretty much everybody in that situation does. It's not like there has never been a religious family living in a building without a doorman before.
I'm a little confused as to why this isn't happening.
I'll be at the Amsterdam airport for 8 hours on Christmas.
If it makes you feel any better, it sounds very cool and worldly and stuff.
Doesn't it? Marvel at my jet-settingness.
YAY Sparky and fam! That's awesome, and enhancing the Buffistaness in teh world. Excellent. We shall succeed in our evil plotting yet. Mwhahahahahahah!
Er, I mean...um. Yay, babies!
Congrats Sparky! You're the third person in three days that I've found out is pregnant!
I'm a little confused as to why this isn't happening.
Most likely (if this is the Upper West Side, especially), the neighbors are twenty-somethings just out of college who went from living in a suburban house to living in a dorm to living in an apartment, and they just haven't thought of it. (The Upper West Side is pretty much where youngish Orthodox Jews go to live for a few years after college, find someone to marry, and then move to New Jersey. There have been a few hysterical reports in the past few years in some of the Jewish newspapers about the "situation" there, where people are staying until they're in their thirties and not getting married, and just living the single life until then, and this is clearly going to destroy everything! The usual culprits are either that "these young people don't want to grow up and be responsible adults" or "everyone's too picky.")
Woot! Congrats, Sparky and DH!
Oh my goodness, what wonderful news! Big BIG yay for Sparky and DH! Woo!
Skipped well ahead to say
Congrats to Sparky & DH!!! W00t!
And now back to catching up. Vacations are awesome (especially when Hawaii's involved), but I feel like I'm spending weeks to catch up from being gone one week.
Hope to see you all again later today!
Edited 'cuz +3 was really obnoxiously large.
As long as we're reading Salon letters...
What could POSSIBLY be more fun than the "Obama is not a natural born American" conspiracy folks.
It's the weakest conspiracy EVAH. They give no reason WHY he's spent his
entire life
pretending to be American. They can't even decide what nationality he supposedly is.
The best part is Camille Paglia is to some degree one of them and now I never have to read another sentence of her's ever again.