h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

is now it's like hanging out at work *wanders back to the floor*

Heh.

Imagine getting on the internet just to get down the hall.

Well six floors below actually, and a very nice office it is too

This means you work on the third floor, yes?

I work on the 8th, they work on the 2nd, you'd call it the 3rd and 9th

So if I get into an elevator and I want to visit h2, I hit the button for the third floor. But if I step into a lift I need to hit the second floor button?

That must be a super-confusing place!

Well as I seem to remember you have floors numbered 1, 2, 3 etc. missing out the number 13... we on the other hand have Ground, then 1, 2, 3, and include the 13th floor, so when we talk about floor 14 or above we'd be two floors out

Is that all too confusing or what?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14,
G, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,

We have basments too, we just call them lower ground, oh except in this building where we have Basment, Lower Ground, Ground, First Floor... hmmm I think I'll shut up now

*head explodes*

In a lot of the buildings i go into, they start with p3 (or however many levels underground) as the lowest level, on up..

p3, p2, p1, m, 2, 3, 4, ..

Where p is parking marked backwards (like negitive numbers) and M is the mezzanene(sp?) level. the 13'th floor is usually used as a service floor and not accessable by the public elevators.