Owais Mughal
A friend has forwarded me this notice which is wordprocessor printed and taped on top of an elevator (‘Lift’) door, somewhere in a Pakistani building.
The English translation reads:
“ATTENTION: BEFORE ENTERING THE LIFT CHECK WHETHER LIFT IS PRESENT OR NOT!”
This is hilarious enough, but the Urdu message at the top of this translation has one extra sentence which didn’t get translated to English and that is the punch line. A kind of dark comedy. I’ll translate it for our non-Urdu readership. It says:
“Make sure it doesn’t happen that you reach ground floor without an elevator.”
Wise words, indeed!
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I fell inside an opening right before the first step of the escalator in Dolmen Center (Tariq Road). Apparently the technician left it open and went for a break.
As Bilal and Shehzad have pointed above this may sound hilarious but it has happened in Karachi. One of my good friends in college died in front of his own mother’s eyes when he walked into open elevator doors in their Bahadurabad apartment building when there was no elevator present.
In a society where there is no respect for laws or regulations, having safe elevators or some authority regularly check their certificates is just a nuisance no one wants to go through. It falls in the same category as non-existent sprinklers in high rise buildings, ten year-old rotting fire extinguishers placed to satisfy the corrupt Civil Defence inspector, and lack of an effective emergency response system in case some badqismat falls into a hole.
These are all ‘western’ conspiracys to slow us down on our way to the Promised Land.
now zia’s comment is what is called wit.
:-D , is it written inside the elevator? ;)
ChiefSahib, your comment above made me smile. It is very funny