Poor Moonpie!

[conuly]

Took her to the vet to get fixed. (This must be the only building in NYC where the first floor is a level up. Very frustrating when you consider that the only building directory is in the elevator!)

She was scared to go in her carrier, shivered the whole way there. When I let her out at the vet's, she ran around and sat in half a dozen laps, none of which were mine. (Apparently, nobody here minds dogs just running around the waiting room so long as they behave, a policy I heartedly approved of because I forgot her leash at home.) Then, when she came out of surgery, she bit a technician. This is mostly a non-event, but apparently they have to contact animal control whenever they get bitten, and we'll have a follow-up call in ten days to confirm she doesn't have rabies. As she's vaccinated, this is just a formality. Poor baby.

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[redbird]

Oddly, I used to live in a building in Inwood where the first floor was a level up; the ground floor was labeled either "G" for ground or "M" for main, and actually had a few apartments as well as the laundry room and boiler room.

Columbia University has a building where the first floor is two levels down, if you use the main entrance, because it's built into a steep hill, but that's both more obviously weird and more explicable.

[conuly]

It's just not what I expect to see!

And the only building directory was in the elevator, which is just poor planning.

LOL. In one of the All-of-a-Kind Family books they run into this. Their aunt has moved to a new building on the fourth floor, and when they go to visit her they walk up four floors and enter the right apartment. There's a note on the table saying "I'll be a bit late, just eat now", so they do.

Ten minutes later, the woman who actually lives there walks in, but since this is a children's book the whole thing ends with the entire family laughing because it is only the most ridiculous thing that could ever happen.