Vietnamese floor numbering is an adjustment. A building that I would say has five stories they would call a four story building.
However... get in the elevator to go to the fifth floor, press 5 on the panel, the rooms and suites on the floor the elevator opens at will be numbered in the six hundreds!
This really threw me for a loop when visiting mẹ in the hospital. It wasn't only that I pressed 5 on the elevator panel but also when the doors opened there was a large column in front of the door with a giant shiny 6 on it.
I paused before stepping out and confirmed the floor number the elevator stopped at was 5. Very strange feeling to step out of an elevator that stopped at the fifth floor and step onto the sixth floor!
Sometimes it definitely feels as if I've taken the red pill.
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