Permit Yourself to Show Your Elevator Permit

Many thoughts can cross your mind while you're in an elevator: what do I have to do today? I wonder who's home? This elevator is slow. This elevator is fast. Why didn't I take the stairs? Who is this Otis guy? Etc. But have you ever looked at the sign somewhere in the elevator that says, "ELEVATOR PERMIT LOCATED IN MANAGER'S OFFICE"?

I've seen it a bunch of times and thought of going to the manager's office just to see if they really have a permit for the elevator. But, sometimes your manager's office isn't even in the building. Sometimes, you might be stuck in the elevator and want to know how the elevator is operating with a "permit", but you can't, 'cause you're stuck...in the elevator, and the permit is in...the manager's office. I once went down in an elevator with only myself and another female, and the lights were out inside. First, I was thinking how lazy the maintenance was, and then I was like, "Wow, this is kinda cool. She could be hot, and for the next  10 seconds, something amazing could happen." Turns out, the girl was my sister in-law's first cousin. Weird. And totally off subject...kinda.

I wonder if these "managers" ever have regular people like ourselves strolling on through their office asking, "Could I see the elevator's permit please?" Startled, the manager shuffles through the various papers piled on his desk and inside of his drawers. Finally, the manager finds it and shows it. The person examines the document then hands it back saying, "OK, just making sure. Thanks," and walks out the door.

But why is there a sign saying that the permit is in the manager's office? Why can't the actual permit be displayed in the elevator. You don't have bars having a sign that says their liquor license is in the manager's office. Maybe there were incidents in the early days where the actual permits were being destroyed by passengers in the elevators. And it just so happened that the elevator peeps were the originators of going "green", saying "We are using just too much darn paper with trying to show our darn permit, darnitt!" So the dudes were like, "You know what, we'll just put up a sign in the elevator saying that the permit is in the manager's office. There, the permit will be safe in the manager's arms." Who knows? I obviously don't.

Anyways, check out that sign, and possibly think of taking a look at the actual permit...wherever the hell it is.

Flushing the toilet,

Loa