Today for the first time I walked into a tall building in Jerusalem, heading for the third floor. The elevator was going down and a woman told me "I don't think the elevator goes up". Now, that sounded a bit strange...
I nevertheless waited for the next elevator. When I got in I pushed the button 3 and waited. The elevator started to make its way down and not up. I figured someone had called it downstairs.
Downstairs, nobody was waiting for the elevator. I pushed the button 3. The doors closed. Nothing happened for a few seconds and then the doors reopened. I tried the same three times. Three times the doors closed, stayed closed for a few seconds, then reopened. That's when I decided to use the stairs.
Situated two floors below the entrance of the building I started to climb the stairs towards my target: the third floor. Imagine my astonishment when one floor up I read this sign: 4. I was on the fourth floor. Let me repeat this just in case you lost your concentration: I had started walking up the stairs two floors below the entrance and after climbing only one floor I was on the fourth floor.
So I went down one floor hoping to read the sign 3 when I would get there. And I did. I also found the office I was looking for. The conclusion of all this is of course that, for reasons to be examined some other time, the ground floor is on the fifth floor.
And I ask, would it be too much of an inconvenience to place at least one sign next to the elevator signaling that the ground floor , which innocently appears to be the ground floor is in fact the fifth floor ?????????????
Nathalie
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