Sunday, April 10, 2005

On Those Little Details (1)

The entrance to the coffee shop had two glass doors, one of them permanently locked. On each side there's a glass window that resembles a clothing store, and on top of the doors there's also a large window. Even though the whole front of the narrow coffee shop contains five glass panels, the door-wide bars to push the doors open make them look like if there were seven glass panels all together.

That was a very simple detail that many, if not all of the dozens of visitors that came in every day, ever noticed neither cared about. Even though you have to pull the door handle to get in, and then push a bar on the other side of the door while holding your coffee to get out , the truth of the matter is that each door is made of one solid glass panel, and not two. A small detail, so simple that in neither of the different licenses and permissions requested by the city to operate such a business, it is mentioned. Not even in the very detailed plan of the Fire Department there's a word of this imperceptible fact.

But the robbers could've done better by looking a bit closer.

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