Cock Fight

A bunch of us get on the elevator on floor -2. That's the second subfloor in the basement parking garage. The first stop to be was floor 3. About floor 1 the power goes out and we're suspended. An emergency light comes on, people groan and it starts to get warm. Someone mentions that we'll head back to the bottom (floor -3) before we go up again when the power comes on.

At that, the dude next to me starts to go off about how easy it would be to code the lift mechanism to remember what floor it was on in case of power outages.

"It just needs a little ROM memory and everything would be fine. It's real easy. I don't know why they don't do it. I did it in college."

I look around in the dim emergency lighting and see eyes rolling, so I blurt out,

"I drank a lot of beer in college."

Everyone laughs (especially the chicks).

Me 1, dude next to me 0.

The power came back on and sure enough the elevator went all the way down before going back up.

Better bring you A game next time dude.

- b

ps. Important thing to note here was the conversation was in English. Most of the time everyone speaks in Hindi - even the people I eat lunch with as we sit together.