The Elevator

Ha! The elevator in our condo is always a source of joy. On the back of the wall in the elevator is a sign about pigeons and monkeys. Apparently, the monkeys could be carrying Jewish Rabbies. They are very strong those monkeys! People have been constantly correcting and commenting on that line in the elevators.

Asians are a generally superstitious group. In most languages, the word four is a homonym for the word death so it is bad luck to have a four in your telephone number, on your license plate or apparently, to live on that floor. Hence, the elevator here has 3A, 12B, 23A, and 33A instead of 4, 14, 24, and 34. In order to be inclusive, 13 has also been ruled out - 12A instead.

See the beginning of the third paragraph.