OUT OF ORDER!!!
In the Leith area of Edinburgh, there are some new flats being built around what is now known as Western Harbour.
In this area, the flats are very nice, very expensive, and - as I inadvertently found out this evening - very, very funny!
I was visiting my eldest brother in one of these aformentioned flats, and played his XBox360 [RBK: Pro Evo, incase you wondered.]. For a couple of hours, fun was to be had, and was being had, until myself and my brother-between-me-and-the-eldest had to leave, to go back to our other flat.
So... we step outside, and go toward the elevator. The man-in-the-elevator* calls from downstairs: "Going Up". As the lift made its way from "the basement" to our floor, my big brother decided to see if he could force open the doors we were standing by.
No, he couldn't.
"They must put some sort of anti-grip stuff on these doors to stop people doing that" said he.
"No, it's just that they're polished clean every now and again", corrected I.
So, we step in the lift, and I push "-1" [The Basement].
I decide to prove to Brother that I am in fact right, and as the doors close and Mr.Lift proclaims
"Going Down", I push open the doors, only to hear, BARKING out of the speakers in the same manner a furious Doric-speaking father asks
"dae yi wint a fuckin' skelp?"
The lift-man screams at me:
OUT OF ORDER!
This is not in the same manner as those polite vending machines in a hospital, that never have a twix or anything else in them, and tell you with a bit of paper sellotaped onto the glass that it is "out of order". No, this automated voice sounded like I had ANGERED him. And, to me... this is just funny.
So, I let go of the doors, not in fear, but in absolute hysterics, as I fall to my knees, giggling away like a MonkeyonAcid, followed shortly by my brother for whom the penny fell slightly later, as we realise that I've just been exposed as a wee whippersnapper by an elevator!!
Of course, this leads us to many, many, many more stories which I shall relay to this blog in due course.
*NB - not really a man, just an automated voice through the speakers.
In this area, the flats are very nice, very expensive, and - as I inadvertently found out this evening - very, very funny!
I was visiting my eldest brother in one of these aformentioned flats, and played his XBox360 [RBK: Pro Evo, incase you wondered.]. For a couple of hours, fun was to be had, and was being had, until myself and my brother-between-me-and-the-eldest had to leave, to go back to our other flat.
So... we step outside, and go toward the elevator. The man-in-the-elevator* calls from downstairs: "Going Up". As the lift made its way from "the basement" to our floor, my big brother decided to see if he could force open the doors we were standing by.
No, he couldn't.
"They must put some sort of anti-grip stuff on these doors to stop people doing that" said he.
"No, it's just that they're polished clean every now and again", corrected I.
So, we step in the lift, and I push "-1" [The Basement].
I decide to prove to Brother that I am in fact right, and as the doors close and Mr.Lift proclaims
"Going Down", I push open the doors, only to hear, BARKING out of the speakers in the same manner a furious Doric-speaking father asks
"dae yi wint a fuckin' skelp?"
The lift-man screams at me:
OUT OF ORDER!
This is not in the same manner as those polite vending machines in a hospital, that never have a twix or anything else in them, and tell you with a bit of paper sellotaped onto the glass that it is "out of order". No, this automated voice sounded like I had ANGERED him. And, to me... this is just funny.
So, I let go of the doors, not in fear, but in absolute hysterics, as I fall to my knees, giggling away like a MonkeyonAcid, followed shortly by my brother for whom the penny fell slightly later, as we realise that I've just been exposed as a wee whippersnapper by an elevator!!
Of course, this leads us to many, many, many more stories which I shall relay to this blog in due course.
*NB - not really a man, just an automated voice through the speakers.
posted by SuperRoo at 23:24
1 Comments:
Ha ha that was so funny!!! I cant believe i checked to see if someone was behind us!!
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