I am on a semi WBL these days and I leave late round at 10 PM. Considering the fact that I never used to stay after 8 PM in office this is very late for me :).
Today considering the long weekend ahead, I left a bit early at 9PM and walked towards the lobby. The director of another group in my company joined me in a bit and then a person who is doing carpentery at our office joined us. I had already pressed the Down Arrow Button for the lift and we all were waiting for either of the two lifts to come from the 7th and 9th floors, as they were shown on their downward journey. Our office is in 5th floor and none of the lifts resting at the ground floor were bothered to serve us. So tired you know!!
These lifts use some strange logic to move around across all the 9 floors. We are depended on the two lifts coming from floors above us to take us down rather than any of the four lifts staying idly at ground floors. Suddenly the carpenter presses the Up Arrow Button for the lifts and then the two idle lifts at ground floor rush to the 5th and open right in front of us in a space of few seconds. As the person who pressed the button and the director entered the lift, I stayed there cribbing - "Its going Up, Its going Up". But that person called me with his hands to come in fast and I reluctantly joined them thinking that the lift will go up. And then it took us down.
Never in my life I have pressed a lift button in the wrong direction. I have seen people getting in the wrong directions only to make the lift more crowded. And I hate it, when some one in 1st floor who wants to go to 5th floor, takes the downward lift, go to the basement and then come back up only to frustrate people who have pressed the correct button and waiting to go up from the basement.
I do not know whether that person's move was good or bad, but it took us down rather than waiting there for the lifts. And that was smart. It was just pure common sense to think that the lifts coming from upper floors are to take more time than the ones coming from the ground floor. And I just didn't think about that. Rather I waited in the methodical way by pressing the Downward Arrow Button.
Oh God! Life is such a great Teacher.
Tail-Piece: My Mom always tells me: "Nee Oru Enjineeear Aayittentha Kaaryam Common Sense Ennu Paranja Saadhanam Ninakkundo" , when I messes up any trivial job, she asks me to do. Very True!!
12 comments:
:) Nice Post...
Thats a standard thing I get to hear from my dad too :) :)- "nee oru engineeraannu paranjitenthaa karyam " ...
ippo teknikku pidi kitti
Preetha - Welcome Here and many thanks.
Joju - Athaanu .. That is..
use the stairs...
--who else but anon
PS: good that frequency is increasing...
ha ha haven't tried this technique yet.. btw common sense angaadiyil vaangaan kittummo? engi namukkokke oru 1/2 kg vaangaayirunnu :P
anon - need to. my weight is increasing these days :)
dhanya - athenne entha cheyya. oru divasam marathahalliyil onnu karangi nokanam. factory outlet-il aarenkilum sale-inu vachittundenkilo :)
Athinu stairs alle best option...considering the fact that iam impatient and that I dont want to begin the morning and end my day in office with irritation..i take the stairs:) self help !
Talking about common sense - well isnt it extinct element like the extinct DINO :)
Will take the tag soon !
nice one. Anubhavangal... palichakal :)
Seema - Stairs ;) I am lazy;) But the fact is that we do not have a proper staircase except the Fire Exit :).
Sree - Very True. May be at my end its more of Palichakal :)
"Nee Oru Enjineeear Aayittentha Kaaryam Common Sense Ennu Paranja Saadhanam Ninakkundo" why they all say the same line!!;-P
I was scary of getting into lifts alone as a kid..I lost that fear only after I travelled in an aircraft.. ;-D
Even my mom says that dhanush... ahh these moms are all same everywhere...
Mathew n Preetha - Yep everywhere the same line, probably they are all the same :) Mathew, I am still scared when I think about getting stuck in a lift. Thank god that has not yet happened.
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