"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

One of the places I visit regularly is an older establishment, with an elevator to match. Not to worry, it has a current inspection certificate to show it is perfectly safe. During operation it has the usual creaks and groans, with the occasional thump as it gets under way. If you really want to get going in a reasonable length of time you have to select your floor, then the 'close door' button. Otherwise you are standing there with the door open while it waits for another passenger that must be ten kilometres away.

But the elevator does it's job. It gets you up or down where you need to go. So I have used this elevator many times without a care.

Then yesterday I noticed something. It has been doing it all along, but caught my eye a little more strongly for some reason.

When you are standing in the hallway and push the button to request the elevator, every light in the building blinks. Let me say that again: "When you are in the hallway and press the button to bring the elevator to the floor to pick you up, every light in the building blinks."

No big deal I guess, those things must use a lot of power for their electric motors. But it kind of reminds me when you plug too many things into one circuit and the lights blink and then the fuse or circuit breaker goes.

Maybe they have that elevator plugged into the same circuit as the coffee maker. What do you think?

-=One Day At A Time=-

This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License