• TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This probably used to be way more common, like when skyscrapers first became a thing, but I’m an American and was recently in an elevator that had the 13th floor button. It’s definitely not a universal truth or like a building code violation or anything

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      2 months ago

      13th floor is probably where the secret agents spy on all the other floors.

      They are just trying reverse psychology by showing the button now.

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      2 months ago

      Might be a fake 13. They’ll have a button for 13 in the elevator, but 14 actually gives you 13, 15 gives you 14, etc. That way nobody ever thinks they’re on 13, and the fake button convinces them that there is in fact a 13th floor. Or 13 is a mechanical floor.