![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmTj51YejQhR2cHgMXqPpkZt5bxod1cYZgwoPDniTQwFhr/image.png) [*no floor at the bottom of the building.*](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.eSlA5ffiKy0p_r_NJrHCaAHaF7%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=8eb39ba178201a719c3f190ac0653ca846139a9da746ab452a9e98a68ebed83f&ipo=images) ### So at this point... I had been here for a couple days and I learned a few words. I wanted to go for a walk, so Susan gave me the key and I left. I found the elevator door to be strange. I did not remember it from when I arrived.

![elevatordoor.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmfWfUZq6LfFh1jjHrkbtYgvgokT3eJHQwMbLtGGaKdAVQ/elevatordoor.jpg)

I guess that was because she opened and shut it when we came in and I was managing my bags. The door is a stamped aluminum contraption with slats that turned to stack up when you pulled it open. You cant really call it a sliding door though. and you have to do it twice because when the elevator arrives there is one on the elevator too. So I push "1" and wait. When it stops I felt G-forces. There is no soft landing at all. I open the doors and exit - shut them and turn. Nothing but apartment doors. We lived there for another year and I did get to know a lot of people on the second floor because their button said "1" all the time. ➖➖ LA ARGENTINA = 💃 OR 🇦🇷 ➖➖ EL @ARGENTINO = 🕺 ➖➖ ### The other thing is The damn thing is called an *ascensor* of all things, as if I was only going to want to **ascend** all the time. The of all things, you have to *subir* or *bajar* the *ascensor*. Subir means to go **up** and bajar means to go *down*. Quite confusing. ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmZvBMbLHwo2T26hCqBquPBuXxUJnRLcBxFuGz8eYMaTEJ/image.png) [*I would always punch "1" then be surprized*](https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/elevator-buttons-picture-id538063132?k=6&m=538063132&s=170667a&w=0&h=9UtKMHqAAP9tuF4dWigH8TVd37xoPdgfRlmNNQxMYaA=) I kept hearing those same words when we got in or out of the car, train, bus, or elevator, so I question what everyone told me about their meaning being **go up** or ** go down**. That's my story and I am sticking to it! As a consolation, when someone rings the bell and you are inviting them to come up (to the 4th floor for example) to visit, You use *subir* and any of its 73 formations. ➖➖ LA ARGENTINA = 💃 OR 🇦🇷 ➖➖ EL @ARGENTINO = 🕺 ➖➖ I will be continuing to highlight the differences I had noticed and which are good, bad, or indifferent as I blog here on Hive. Thanks for stopping in to hear my thoughts. ***I am just a geek who spent half his life in the other land down under.*** *** ^{Originally posted on [DClub Community Articles](http://dclub.dblog.org/day-three-in-argentina---ups-and-downs). Hive blog powered by [ENGRAVE](https://dblog.org).}