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Would be funnier if it weren't so often true!

The building I'm in on campus has this very problem -- the entire building is clearly set up as Floor 1 and Floor 2 (plus an additional restricted-access floor for the rooftop cooling units and the small observatory which, since I've never been up there, I don't know how, or if, the rooms up there are numbered). But the elevator is set up with G, 1, and PH (penthouse).

A few years ago they updated the entire elevator -- and replaced the panel with the same, old, wrong markings.

 

wrong markings

They might be wrong in the US, but they're correct in the UK.

 

They might be wrong in the US, but they're correct in the UK.

So, in the U.K., if you want to go to Room 219 on Floor 2 of a building, you expect to get into an elevator and having to press Floor 1?

What makes this elevator wrong is that it doesn't match the building that it is located in.

If the building floors and rooms were numbered consistent with having a ground floor and a Floor 1 above it, that would be fine. But that's now how the building was designed, planned, or set up.

 

 

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Just push all the buttons. Step out. If not the right floor step back on before the doors close

I had a brother-in-law (GRHS) who got lost on an elevator. Had two floors.

 

 

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Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the first smartphone:

 

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Next year will be the 60th anniversary of the first smartphone:

I just loved the rotary dial on that thing ...

 

LONG LONG time ago I had a girlfriend whose phone number did not include numbers higher than #4. Her phone number consisted of some 4's, some 2's and some 1's. The phone in the snack bar had a dial phone with a lock on #4. Used to call her from work all the time. Her number was in another exchange and was considered a long distance call even though she lived less than a half mile away. But work was in that same exchange, and even though I was 8 miles away it was not a toll call. Go figger.

Dial phones worked on a pulse base. Simply by tapping the receiver cradle you could dial any number from 1 to 0 (0 = 10 taps).