I think we can probably relax a bit on this concern
[QUOTE=TheAcorn;6037734]I personally don't think it would be wise to email the management of the building / apartment location to complain about the door though. I'm not trying to potentially bring attention to the operation and ruin a good thing for all of us.
Your comment about dudes pacing around dramatically and frantically trying to get the door to open is exactly what I was trying to avoid. I read about those embarassing stories on this forum. Its difficult not to draw attention to yourself in the Tustin location though because the dial / call / release tone is loud as hell and whoever is pressing the button to release the gate lock always has the button pressed down for what feels like an eternity. I know everyone who frequents the Tustin location knows what I'm talking about. It always gives me anxiety hearing that tone when entering through the gate. Now imagine doing that 3 times consecutively but the gate door won't budge. I just calmly walked back to my car and then started texting the booker about the issue but their solution was just to do it again and again. Yeah, nope. I'm not trying to draw more unnecessary attention to myself.[/QUOTE]In the time I've been on review sites, discussion about mongers drawing attention to themselves has probably been among the top 10 subjects. And I am totally in agreement that the best way to go about one's business (and in life in general), is to not draw attention to what one is doing. However, I think this really is not as important as the space we give it. From a personal safety standpoint, I have not heard of any mongers getting busted because they were caught outside of some apartment complex trying for the umpteenth time to use the call box. Cruising Western Ave, for sure, but apartment entry ways are mostly safe. And from the larger perspective, I doubt that the otherwise law-abiding tenants at said complex are going to be pushed over their tolerance-boundary into calling in the vice squad for some ridiculous number of call box attempts. Perhaps they'll be pushed into calling their building management's repair line to get the box fixed, but given the frequency that these events occur and the duration each malfunction seems to last, they've probably given up hope on that, too. Although when we're in the act of going to a building it seems like the only ones using the entry keys are mongers, in truth other people doing random stuff at the building are encountering the exact same situation, and none of them are trying to be discrete or worrying about using the box 5 or more times in a row.
I actually have and had friends at the Norton, New Hampshire, and Sawtelle known locations, and have had the same issues getting in to see them as I have when visiting some girl. But I never give it a second thought when I have to have some actual friend throw me a key out a window to visit them. And if anyone were to look at me suspiciously, it'd be pretty easy to remind myself that unless I stare back at them and loudly shout "hey, I'm just here to see escort Diet Coke for an hour", I am unlikely to encounter them again nor have to be worried that they're going to follow me to a specific room on a specific floor. Maybe even if I was some shmuck holding a big bouquet of balloons.