So I stopped at a coffee shop mostly because I needed to go to the bathroom. I asked the young man behind the counter where the bathroom was ...
"You have to go in the building next door, up one floor in the elevator, along a corridor, down some stairs, through a door and they are there."
Now I don't have the best sense of direction by any means, but by some fluke of anti-Cleo nature I actually found the toilets. It was when I came out of the bathroom that the trouble started.
I went through a door then on the left I see 'fire door do not use'. So despite the clear message I am convinced that is the door I came through and promptly go through that door (lucky it wasn't alarmed!). It must have been right, thinks I, because I come out by the elevators. So I get in an elevator and press the lower ground button. I press it and eventually the doors close, but the elevator is not moving. So, thinking the elevator must be broken, I get out of that elevator and get in another one. Only the same thing happens.
Then it slowly dawns on me. I'm already on the lower ground floor that's why the elevator wasn't going anywhere. I turn around and there is the door to go back to the coffee shop.Labels: ditsy event of the day |
