by
kiki2u
@ 2006-06-10 - 07:06:03
."A number of bank robberies are hampered because of holdup notes that include the robber's name and phone number, the lack of a weapon, an ineffective disguise, and the like; usually these robbers don't make it out the door. But in the case of one aspiring bank robber, he didn't even make it in the door.
Employees of the Durham, North Carolina, Federal Savings Bank became frightened when they saw a man in a sweatshirt with the hood pulled tightly over his face and pounding on the door. Why couldn't he get in - was the door locked? Nope. The man was trying to push the door open, not having notice the Pull sign above the handle. The unidentified man was linked to another attempted robbery in Durham. The crook failed at the robbery attempt, too, when he again attempted to push open a pull door."
- This is a true story, is included on police humour of course
, as indeed the man had problems to open the door!
...well, we really feel stupid with this of Pull and Push,
as for lots of countries in their language, like mine and spanish too, push to us means the opposite!
And it always happens to me when i go to UK..but i already laugh a lot when it happens!..because i'm very aware of it, just is so insctintive or so
that i can't avoid it! As when i arrive in my country and i read at the airport the word "Puxe" (we pronnounce it like "Push") then, funny, i do the opposite! I "push" instead of "puxe"=pull!
Mind and instintcs are a funny indeed!
Kk