A tale of revolving doors and lateral thinking
I return from lunch to my office which boasts the largest revolving door in Europe.The doors are so exceptionally brilliant that only one person can move through them at a time.
Today I found two male workers trapped in the one person sized triangular compartment. There was also a bag stuck where the revolving bit meets the frame.
The area round the door had inevitably been cordoned off with cones, and health and safety were wandering about with their heads in their hands. There was talk of the fire brigade.
Defying the health and safety picket line I closed in on the wedged bag and detected a zip.
I asked the anxious guys inside whether they had thought of emptying it. Clearly not.
I undid the zip and fished out CDs, cigarettes, pens and the rest.
I pulled the door one way the guys inside yanked the bag the other and suddenly Europe’s tallest revolving door spun again.
Delighted women taking the afternoon sun outside cheered. Health and safety retreated.
Forget the guys, I think I may have saved Europe’s tallest revolving glass door from being demolished by one stroke of a fire-fighter’s axe.
The power of lateral thinking, if I do say so myself.
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Well done John. The answer is almost always there.. staring you in the face, if you can just bag it!
Emmet
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. This is what I like about your, Jon.
You speak, think and do logical and sense.
You’re not some high-minded abstract pretentious person who would just stare and tut in disgust at the trapped person, but you actually do something about with such apparent ease and logic.
You don’t just rock, you revolve as well!
Or maybe it was the power of the pink socks….
As simple as that! do people have no common sense anymore?? well done Jon as u seem to be the only logical one lol
John on tonights news you failed to report the huge political story regarding the condemnation of the Brown government by former ministers Clark and Blunkett. It is obvious to all that this is a dishonourable government led by a dishonourable and dangerous man. Channel 4′s political bias in favour of the Labour Party is not becoming of an otherwise first class news service. Surely you could have included a report on Clark/Blunkett comments at the expense say, of the report on a cricket match in Afghanistan?
I think your bloomin wasted mate, you should join the fire brigade forthwith. You could be saving revolving doors all over the smoke!
I often wondered what functionality of hinged doors was so grossly inept as to necessitate the invention of the revolving door. Then, having had decades of experiencing episodes such as that described, architects continue to believe that they are a good idea. Now, with disability discrimination laws being what they are, do they continue to be included in building design, when the difficulty a wheelchair user has when trying to negotiate one, I wonder why revolving doors a relic of a past misadventure?
Classic! I wish I’d witnessed the rescue.
There must be some CCTV footage of this incident. Come on, John, post it on here!
In a world of crime and swine this makes a lovely story. Keep up the good work.
jon is god. nice in my office link jon, i know now.
… another Sunday, another cheesy fry-up by the BBC’s full-english breakfast team.
How long must we wait for C4 to convince Jon to host a proper Sunday morning news programme ( … I can feel a petition coming on).
Please, Jon. Tell us that you’ll at least think about it.
i wish you would come and rescue me.
Not only can he save ships and swim in shark infested waters but he repairs automatic doors. we love you Jon
I think you should of thought twice about doing what you did. OK, you saved the guys stuck in a revolving door, but what about the “health and Safety” workers? “Doing” their job for them, come on Jon, they’ll be out of work because of sensible people doing their work, or is this too much to ask for. Well done!