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February 11, 2003
Press the Down Button to Go Up
One of the two elevators at the Performing Arts Garage on Grove Street has been out of order for over four months. The elevator itself is nothing special, even when it's working.
For a while it would remain open on the basement level, inviting you in. You'd walk in, press the button and nothing would happen. Being that it's only a few steps up to street level, we'd just run up the stairs and onto the street. That's OK, but our dog has bad hips and has trouble on stairs.
So, we learned that you could still press the call button, and the second elevator would eventually come.
The trouble came when you'd enter the lobby on the street level to go to the basement. You'd press the "down" button and nothing would happen. Meanwhile, folks would come along, press the "up" button and be on their merry way with little or no delay. It took a while, but we'd get on the elevator, ride it up, and then it would go all the way down. We're smart folk, we can troubleshoot and adapt.
A few days later, the label arrived, effectively changing the elevator from your standard run-of-the-mill-do-what-it's-supposed-to-do elevator. It's now became most post-modern elevator I have ever encountered. At the very least, it made you think about the conventions of an elevator, and how one could work with or work around it.
I haven't be able to get it's message out of my head.
"Press the Down Button to Go Up"
Posted by tdotjay at February 11, 2003 10:53 AM
