 JUGGALETTEx0
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
 1357 Posts
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:25:38 AM
Doesn't work....My bf and I just stayed on the 17th floor at the hilton....the evelator always took FOREVER and whenever I tried to use that trick, it NEVER worked :( we musta spent like an hour total waiting for elevators...you would think at a place like the hilton, they would be a little quicker. |
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 handeman77
Male, 40-49, Western US
240 Posts
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:53:59 PM
Button with keyhole, penthouse
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 Necrovampyr
Male, 18-29, Western US
69 Posts
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:15:14 AM
i wish i used an elevator so i could try this |
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 meepmaker
Male, 30-39, Southern US
6716 Posts
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Monday, August 02, 2010 8:30:57 AM
Now thats just good to know. |
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 mrbenn
Male, 30-39, Europe
58 Posts
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Sunday, August 01, 2010 12:15:29 PM
Floors 4, 14, and 24 don't exist because this is a Chinese lift.
The word for '4' sounds like 'death', and '14', sounds like 'tomb'. They're massively superstitious about these things, more than we are about the number 13.
Nobody wants to live or put their business on, so they skip them entirely.
So there's your fun lift fact for the day. Share and enjoy. |
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 miasmaat
Female, 18-29, Western US
299 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:42:44 PM
SERIOUSLY??
wow.. gonna use that ALL the time now if it works. F*** the golden rule. |
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 xtreme_dude
Male, 18-29, Western US
1376 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:46:05 PM
I wish I lived in a metropolitan area that had elevators...and what the F**k does the button with the key hole do? Unlock the secrets of the univers. |
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 ingrateful
Male, 13-17, Southern US
419 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:49:25 PM
floors 4,14,24 never existed |
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 omggilyy
Female, 13-17, Western US
590 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:36:59 PM
i wanna try it now x.x |
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 Skim
Female, 13-17, Western US
251 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 4:01:40 PM
Cool. There's a key floor. |
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 acknex32
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
61 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 2:53:20 PM
Of course, now that this is on the internet, EVERYONE's gonna want to try this, so now it's kinda pointless...  |
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 IamBored29
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
647 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 2:48:33 PM
4-14-24 are the floor where they conduct the alien autopsy's. everyone knows that. |
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sinspawn56
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
15 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 2:33:43 PM
Skips Floors 4,14 and 24. That make me curious. |
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 dart3rocks
Male, 13-17, Southern US
35 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 2:11:27 PM
The most stories you can fall and survive = 4-5 |
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 Nezaru
Male, 18-29, Southern US
102 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:46:41 PM
I like how there's a 13th floor, but no 14th. |
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 CodeJockey
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
2403 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:40:20 PM
"It has a 13th floor??"
That is a Chinese or Japanese elevator.
There is a "13" but not a "4" which in Chinese sound like their word for death.
Anime trivia: Excel's "Roponmatsu" = "614" = "Suffers before dieing"
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 coolthing97
Male, 13-17, Southern US
1015 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:38:54 PM
But it skips floor 14? Is there something wrong with that number too? Lol. |
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 PinkAndGreen
Female, 13-17, Southern US
917 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 11:28:34 AM
I've tried this at a hotel when checking out once xD
Normally, the doors would open on nearly every floor, but I tried it, and I went straight up, and it didn't stop once. I think it's true |
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 lostinkorea
Female, 30-39, Europe
3620 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:41:51 AM
It has a 13th floor?? |
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 Chukwa
Male, 13-17, Canada
30 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:17:41 AM
It could be a Chinese elevator too. |
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 Fated
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
58 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:44:47 AM
It's probably not Japan. Any elevator built to suit numerical superstitions there would also be missing nine, one of the pronounciations of which sounds like the word for pain or suffering.
Not concidentally, both four and nine are unpopular numbers to use for floors at a hospital. :P |
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zilius
Male, 18-29, Asia
64 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 7:16:59 AM
Not so sure about the Japs, but the chinese elevators are all like this, to maintain property value of the "death" floor. Usually they replace 4 with 3A and so on though |
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Lucky2u
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
314 Posts
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:17:52 AM
In japanese 4 is "shi" and that is the same word for death. Both Death and Four have alternate ways of being said but because they share that, it's considered that 4 is very unlucky. Similiar to 13 to westerners like us. |
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 Concetra
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2031 Posts
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Friday, July 30, 2010 11:05:50 PM
"Why are floors 4, 14, and 24 missing? It can't be coincidence that it's the ones with 4's but I don't get it."
They are reserved only for the police... Dunkin Doughnuts. |
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 green_batman
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
730 Posts
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Friday, July 30, 2010 10:51:24 PM
ElDavo: It could be in Japan. I read somewhere that the number four is associated with death there. |
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