Journal #6443

Posted 14 years ago2010-03-12 19:50:16 UTC
I just have to mention something that occurred earlier today. I'm currently working with my uncle who is in the moving-business. Today we were going to help a student move from his dorm to a proper apartment in another part of town, and his father wanted to help.

So, as I was stacking boxes and whatnot into the elevator at the ground floor of the apartment complex, the guy's father suggests that he do the stacking and I do the unloading on the second floor. I proceeded to the second floor to wait for the elevator to appear, but after waiting for around two minutes the damn thing still hadn't showed up.

I could hear muffled noises coming from downstairs and I thought that the old man had managed to get himself stuck or something, so I rushed down to help. It turns out that he had pressed the button to go to the floor he was already on and had not noticed this, so he had unloaded all the boxes onto the exact same place there were at before!

A failure of the highest calibre indeed!

4 Comments

Commented 14 years ago2010-03-12 21:07:17 UTC Comment #34747
<giant truck of disachievement here>

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Commented 14 years ago2010-03-12 21:25:38 UTC Comment #34749
Elevators aren't such a new, rare and innovative technology that you can just dismiss as "omg n00b lol". This goes much deeper into the roots of this man's perception of the world surrounding him. It's amazing how he was unable to notice that the elevator hadn't moved at all and he was still at the ground floor. Especially because the ground floor is always different than the other floors above it.
Commented 14 years ago2010-03-12 21:53:50 UTC Comment #34748
You'd have to wonder how he missed that.
Commented 14 years ago2010-03-13 12:13:47 UTC Comment #34746
Lolevator.

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