Wednesday 28 March 2007

It's backwards inside

I've noticed that church buildings and other auditoriums (auditoria?) have different directions for "front" and "back" depending on whether you're inside or outside. As you walk in the front doors, you're usually standing at the back of the auditorium, and the speaker stands at the front. Continue past the stage and you exit from the back doors and you're then standing at the back of the building. So the doors appear to be considered part of the outside, but the rest of the building inside is back to front. Just an observation.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I haven't tried to consider the question of left vs right.
PPS - That one probably just depends on which direction you're facing.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

John!

We know that you are an observational type of person, and more often than not, I take great interest in your comments as they are often quite insightful.

That being said though, I think today must have been a REALLY slow work day! ;-)

Hope all is well, and I'll catch you soon!

John said...

Many days are slow work days. Today is slower than most.

Anonymous said...

I can understand the mentality!

As an aside though... They say the sign of stupidity is doing the same thing, and expecting a different result. What is it then if you do the same thing, expecting the same result, and then you get an intermittantly changing result that borders on chaotic.

I'm not sure if this makes me stupid directly? Or only as a result of expecting our IT&T department to have a solution other than "unable to replicate error, please shutdown and reboot".

grrr...