Thursday, 29 November 2007

4 - The lift: what a wonderful invention!

How could we, Germanists from the fifth floor, live without a lift? This question crossed my mind yesterday when I realised with horror that the lift of our university was out of order!
All day long, I heard people (me included) puffing and blowing in the stairs, and complaining of sore legs!

Thankfully, the lift was mended this morning! :-)

But I'm curious to see what would happen if we had to live without a lift for at least two weeks... Just imagine... no lift at all... I think we'd start to bunk off classes that take place on the fifth floor! :-) Or, by dint of climbing up the stairs five or six times a day, we'd develop our muscles and end up looking like Schwarzie!!
Wouldn't that change our life in some way?!

That's why I like this invention, and I hope everyday that it'll be in working order to bring me up to the fifth floor. :-)