Members Billster Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Yes folks, it's March 13. I work in a so-called 15 story building. We load into the elevator this morning, and there's a guy who has a bicycle with him kind of blocking access to the floor buttons, so he asks what floor everyone wants. I'm on ten, the third guy in the elevator says "14", but the button pusher misheard and thinks he said "13". No, no, 14. ha ha. There is no 13th floor. Since I go to 10, I never noticed the other buttons go 11-12-14-15. Can we get past this kind of thing in this day and age? We survived Y2K and changing to DST two weeks earlier. Do we really need to be afraid of #13? I said to the guy "you realize it's really 13, no matter what they call it, right? ;)" He's probably sitting upstairs nervously looking over his shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 Aren't the buildings that are "missing" the thirteenth floor tend to be older buildings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BLAblablah Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 At least he's thankful it wasn't on a...FRIDAY Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted March 13, 2007 Members Share Posted March 13, 2007 In the older days, the telephones did not include the letter Q and most telephone numbers were dialed by a letter prefix rather than a 3 digit number. For instance "At Water 1 or AT1", was 281, Drexel 1 or DR1, was 371... Whenever a guy would start annoying a girl while trying to get her phone number, if she wasn't interested in him and she just wanted him to get lost, she would give him a QU1 prefix. The guy, satisfied in getting the girls' number, would leave her alone and he usually wouldn't realize that he'd just got the big "brush off" that was common knowledge to most girls until after he got home and tried to call. I noticed that Q is now displayed on the push buttons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted March 14, 2007 Members Share Posted March 14, 2007 I didn't think you were old enough to remember that, Ani... But, Bill, I have this dreadful fear of this album: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted March 14, 2007 Members Share Posted March 14, 2007 I didn't think you were old enough to remember that, Ani... Ah, but dearest Tedster, I "WAS" born in the 50's..... just barely, but..... Yeah, that QU1 phone trick came in handy at least a couple of times during the younger years.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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