07 December 2008

Sorry for the Convenience


JUSCO, our Japanese Supermarket and Mall has three sets of escalators: One set in the Department store end of the mall, another set just outside the Grocery (by the dried fish vendors - and thus the aroma of dried fish wafts up the escalator with you) and a third set in the middle (by the Beard Papa cream puffs kiosk which smells wonderful, especially in concert with the fabulous smells escaping Starbucks, also in the general area.)
Today the dried fish escalator was broken. Here are some pics of the repairmen who did a quick job and soon converted the "stairs" back to an escalator. (Note how they tried to put the broken motor into the less than robust shopping cart. I'm not sure how that turned our for them as they were not keen to be photographed!)

"I like an escalator, because an escalator can never break.
It can only become stairs.
You'll never see an 'Escalator Out of Order' sign,
only 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs'.
Sorry for the convenience.'"
Mitch Hedberg

2 comments:

John Michael George Jr. said...

showing some mitch hedberg skills...nice. you guys are cool.
"you should never wave to someone you don't know. what if they don't have an arm...then they'll just think you're cocky."

Anonymous said...

Oh my I didn't know there is a Beard Papa place in Jusco... Actually, on second thought, it's a good thing I didn't know! The next time I go to Qingdao I'm there!