Once Up. Twice Down. 🔔⬆️🔔🔔⬇️
(this thread is not as depressing as it sounds)
One day I made a discovery. Just in the way Captain Cook “discovered” Australia, my “discovery” would not be news to everyone. But it was big news to me.
While standing at a bank of lifts in the hospital I noticed that when an elevator arrived and was going up it would ding once, and ding twice when going down. #observation
I was more excited by this than a grown-up should be. As I made my way through the hospital, I tested the other bank of lifts in Block D, then the lifts in Block C, Block B and Block A. #curious
That’s science baby: make an observation, come up with a hypothesis, then repeatedly test it to see if holds true. As it happens, all of the hospital lifts beep once if they’re going up and beep twice if they’re going down. Sample size: 1 hospital, 5 banks of lifts. #sciency
Naturally, I tweeted and facebooked about it. #sharethelove
It seems that the one-up two-down audible alarm holds true unless the lifts/buildings are old and/or have lifts which do not announce their arrival with an audible sound at all. #stealthy
Anyway, I’m still intrigued by my one-ding-up-two-dings-down discovery. For me it raises two questions and a hypothesis:
Question 1: What else is happening right in front of me that I’m not noticing?
Question 2: What other secret tips and tricks do vision-impaired people have that they’re not telling us?
Hypothesis: Even when the big stuff isn’t going all that well, there’s joy to be had in the small stuff.
End. 🔔⬆️🔔🔔⬇️ (thread made with @chirrapp, reworking this old blog post: meta4rn.com/ding)
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