Friday, July 17, 2015

I did used to have a brain really I did

So I'm in the Civic Centre and I need to get to the second floor. I walk to the lifts and go to press the button when I stop: which button do I press? Now that's not as stupid as it sounds*, trust me. The choice looked liked this:
I was on the ground floor so where was the up button? Why was there only a down button and what did A mean? (You'll have to believe me that it looked more like an A than it might do in my drawing.)

I walked to the next set of buttons and they were exactly the same. How was it possible to go upstairs if there wasn't an up button?! (I was struggling to carry a baby in a car seat at the time so I wasn't being lazy by not using the stairs.)

And maybe the fact that I'd carried said seat from a distant car park contributed to my blankness, I don't know, but eventually I decided I might as well try the A button and see what happened. It wasn't until I was stepping into the lift, when the light must have been hitting the buttons from a different angle (that's my excuse), that I realised the error of my ways.

Join me again next week when I try to push a pull door.

*Okay, possibly it is.

7 comments:

Rose said...

I have problems with any signs that are just pictures--does that stick figure have a skirt on or pants? If you had gone the wrong way, at least you would have been on the wrong floor and not in the wrong restroom:)

Liz Hinds said...

I'm glad it's not just me, Rose!

Leslie: said...

Thanks for my laugh of the day! Sometimes you really crack my up.

SmitoniusAndSonata said...

Who else remembers lift operators ? No danger of being unable to find the Corsetry department ....

Ole Phat Stu said...

The sign said "Lift", so I did, but it wouldn't come off the wall :-(

Liz Hinds said...

Memories of Are You Being Served? Sonata!

nick said...

Just another instance of random brain clog. Happens to me at regular intervals. But some symbols are genuinely perplexing and a word or two of explanation would be helpful. I still have to think twice about the skirt/pants distinction. I mean, women wear pants, right? And men wear kilts....