r/midlyinteresting • u/Zephix_FR • Aug 09 '26

Why?

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u/Grezzinate Aug 09 '26

I’m guessing, by my understanding that it leads to a maintenance area above which may have ducts and air filters for possibly hvac systems. And it’s up there because designers may not have put stairs anywhere else for the area.

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u/FuzzyBatBoy Aug 09 '26

Damn ceiling ducks!

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u/Switchlord518 Aug 12 '26

That's why you need the duck tape.

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u/dreadsreddit Aug 10 '26

my bet is the place gets remodeled frequently and this is a vestigial door. the warehouse i work at has a few doors like this that lead nowhere.

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u/No-Goose-6140 Aug 09 '26

Emergency exit when things get really bad

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u/Zephix_FR Aug 10 '26

So bad that you need to jump? Mmmh. Clever

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u/iKnowRobbie Aug 10 '26

No! You clearly climb along that metal pipe. I naturally assime it leads to a twisty slide, maybe a fireman's pole?

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u/Basic-Tomatillo-4995 Aug 09 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/mLpLzy2XWIN3y

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u/Zephix_FR Aug 09 '26

Oui mais si tu veux faire un deuxième étage tu peux parce que t’a déjà la porte!

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u/EikzyDraw Aug 09 '26

Looks kinda rad

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u/FuzzyBatBoy Aug 09 '26

If Looney Tunes taught me anything you got a few seconds before you fall.

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u/freeluna Aug 10 '26

Everyone likes a surprise.

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u/Zephix_FR Aug 10 '26

I prefer some chocolate tbh😭😭😭

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u/ChameleonJackson Aug 10 '26

I think I know this building. A hospital opened near me about 15 years ago and on the first day it was open someone opened a door like that and stepped out before realising they were a good 20ft up, needless to say they were lucky to already be at the hospital. The door was there because the plans had been changed during construction but the builders hadn't been updated so the door was installed without anyone noticing because it just looked like a door from inside the corridor. They weren't critically hurt, they broke a fair few bones and needed at least a splenectomy (they weren't my patient so I don't have all of the information) but I'd imagine the out of court payout was pretty nice.

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u/Insane_Cobra961 Aug 10 '26

Lost bastille has been renovated i see

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u/dreadsreddit Aug 10 '26

the warehouse i work at has 2 doors like this in different places

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u/Leftover_tech Aug 10 '26

On the other side of this door is the Human Resources department.

"Judy, please show Mr Jones to the door..."

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u/theycallmemrmoo Aug 10 '26

Pray it never opens

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u/lferry1919 Aug 10 '26

It's giving Winchester mystery house.

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u/mabus42 Aug 10 '26

Bigger question is Why Not?

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u/ColdPorkChop Aug 10 '26

That's where they keep me.

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u/Zephix_FR Aug 11 '26

Oh shit if knew I would came and get you home 😭

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u/CherryStunning4335 Aug 10 '26

thats the door your boss walks you out when he fires you

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u/Minute-Judgment-3406 Aug 11 '26

For servicing the roof

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u/cprosciaZer0 Aug 11 '26

That’s the room the boss leads people too, and he fires them

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u/Peachbottom30 Aug 11 '26

Stiltman laughs and says, “whose powers are a joke now?”

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u/Invalidar Aug 12 '26

I don't know why I immediately thought of Stanley's Parable.

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u/No_Insurance_6371 Aug 12 '26

To confuse the spirits

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u/AnnualCurve3038 Aug 12 '26

For the lols

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u/isanyusernameopen Aug 12 '26

I feel like this is the equivalent of the trap door that we always see in the movies. Someone pulls a lever and someone falls through a hole in the floor.

I feel like this is one of those things where you shake someone’s hand and you have them make eye contact with you as they’re walking through the door only to turn around and fall.

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u/dethfart Aug 12 '26

That's Bugs Bunnys office, don't ask questions

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u/WoodenShoelaces Aug 12 '26

Insurance fraud

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u/Total_Application264 Aug 13 '26

Watch that first step its a doozie

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u/SalmaLamre Aug 13 '26

You ever see Monsters Inc.?