Posted Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 11:51 pm under travel.

Elevator status report

Tonight I caught the BART from San Francisco back to Oakland. Waiting for the train to arrive and then again when I got off, I heard the world’s stupidest public announcement. It was so weird that I took out my laptop and typed it in. Here it is, pretty much word for word:

Elevator status report: all station elevators are currently in service. All station agents please make sure your status boards reflect this information.

This was broadcast to the whole station. It reminds me of town criers of old: “It’s 9pm and all’s well.”

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  • http://www.eatoni.com/ hag

    there is worse. In the Dallas airport, every five minutes, for at least a decade, “watch your bags. don’t accept packages, blah blah.” and at the very end, as some sort of grand concluding remark, “*This* has been a security announcement.”

  • http://www.eatoni.com hag

    there is worse. In the Dallas airport, every five minutes, for at least a decade, “watch your bags. don’t accept packages, blah blah.” and at the very end, as some sort of grand concluding remark, “*This* has been a security announcement.”