July 13, 2006

Mary Poppins Lives in my Elevator

Here in S'pore (this is how the locals abbreviate it) I have noticed two things about the elevators: 1. they all have tv monitors either in them or right outside to entertain you while you wait the whole minute for it to arrive or while you ride the whole 30 seconds to your stop and 2. they talk.

The elevators in my hotel have a female british voice that does the narration, which is along the lines of, "Second storey, going up." This voice was so familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out why. Finally it dawned on me - she sounds exactly like Julie Andrews. Now I have to stop myself from giggling whenever I hear her, because I have started to expect her to say, "Fifth storey, going down, just like a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down..."

1 Comments:

At 4:51 PM, Blogger mj said...

i've never seen that movie. the elevators in my office are like 117 degrees. you def got the better deal.

 

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