Five Years in WP

I fell asleep and woke up and realised that I had almost been working in West Perth for exactly five years. I had also been using the stair well a lot and remembered in my first six months at this job that my mentor, whom I very much admired but his stories I did not always trust, had mentioned that the stair wells lead to the roof of the building. I was so excited when I heard this and could not believe four and a half years had basically passed and I had never tested this theorem to be true or not! I felt a strong urgency to finally check this for myself, in my final week of my fifth year of work in this building.

I am a slow walker in work clothes (pants are tight-ish on my legs and work shoes are not always comfortable), it was a Wednesday afternoon and I decided to test out the stairwell at the end of the corridor which contains the toilets on our floor. I slowly made my way up the stairs to the fourth floor and realised that this was where it ended. Disheartened but satisfied, I headed down the stairs and caught the train home from City West.

Two days later on a late Friday afternoon, I found myself to be the only person left in the office. It was past 6:30pm so I decided to head home. This was officially the final of my fifth year of work; the following week I would enter into my sixth year, Jesus! I honoured my intention and checked out the other stairwell. I made it to the fourth floor and noticed that the stairwell continued; this was unexpected. Excitedly, I continued on. When I made it to the end there was another door! This was it, the elusive doorway to the roof of this building that I had heard about all that time before! I couldn’t believe it! Cliff was telling the truth after all.

Feeling content, I went home. A few weeks later I discovered that I had access to another stairwell in the building. This was also a Friday night when I was killing time before I headed into the city to meet up with LS and KC for a few drinks. I was at the front of the building deciding if I should wait longer or catch the Red CAT into the city. I saw a fob scanner that I had never tried before so I decided to give it a try. It opened. A staircase which I was unaware of and which I had access to. Again I was shocked that I had never even tested this door. This meant that I had access to the basement floors which I previously thought were unattainable. I guess you never know.