Wednesday, October 30, 2013

01, 0, 1, 2 - Where Am I?

I know I have mentioned it before, but I just need to talk about the obscure way that the Dutch seem to number floors.  They don't have something called the basement but instead it is 01.  Yah. . .okay.  So today at work I was looking for room 1A55, which at first glance, I thought that I was on floor 1 and there was no room 55 where there should have been.  That is when it was pointed out to me that I was in fact on floor 01.  So I went up a floor and proceeded to look for room 1A55 - once again - no luck.  Why?  Because I was now on floor 0.  Seriously!   What floor is called zero?! So up another set of stairs and I FINALLY found the floor and the room that I was supposed to be on.  Why can we not call floors what they are?  Basement, ground floor, 2nd floor and so on?  It is all a mystery to me.