Erevator

As you know, I live on the 25th floor of my apartment (which is actually the 21st floor).  In western elevators the buttons start at the bottom left and go sequentially to the right, then up.  The bottom row will be 1, 2, 3, the the row above it will be 4, 5, 6, and so on.  That way the buttons for the top floors of the building are at the top of the array.

Not in China.  Here’s the inside of the elevator at my building

I guess they figure that since the elevator starts at the bottom and goes up that the buttons should too.  Thus I find myself pressing one of the bottom buttons to get to one of the top floors.

Do your ears pop when you go up?  I know this is very backwoods rube of me, but I only recently had my first trip in the elevator of a very tall building (still only 27 floors).  I wasn’t expecting my ears to pop and it really surprised me.

Yeah, they pop every time.

Nice negative numbers.  Never seen those in any elevator (that I remember).

Lee, what do the chinese have against the number “4”?  They share our silly superstition about 13 as well I notice.

Oops, sorry chief, just noticed your link to the “floor 21” post.  ...just checked it out.  Interesting!