Chuffy said:We have a new lift at work which talks to you. However, it's been very quiet recently, just making a bingly noise and saying 'floor' whenever the door opened.
It's been fixed now by a kind man. Turns out that the poor thing was lost and didn't know which floor it was on.
Bless!
Chuffy said:it's been very quiet recently
Mr Pig said:Maybe just feeling down.
Chuffy said:We have a new lift at work which talks to you. However, it's been very quiet recently, just making a bingly noise and saying 'floor' whenever the door opened.
It's been fixed now by a kind man. Turns out that the poor thing was lost and didn't know which floor it was on.
Bless!
Happy Vertical People Transporter
The lifts in the Hitchhiker's Guide offices are called Happy Vertical People Transporters. As designed by the Corporation, they are meant to be sentient (enough to argue with) and have "defocused temporal perception." The latter concept is meant to enable the lifts to see far enough into the future to arrive at a floor before a potential passenger realizes they wanted a lift, and thus remove any waiting as per old-fashioned lifts. Often they feel rebellious about the concept of only moving up and down, and sometimes experiment with moving sideways. Hitchhikers can earn money counseling neurotic Transporters.
RT, that's inspiredRhythm Thief said:While it wasn't working, were you not tempted to stick a sign on it, saying "This Otis Regrets it's Unable to Lift Today"?
"Get out, you fat bastard!"Chuffy said:We have a new lift at work which talks to you...