Blog Number 66

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

As you faithful readers know, I am now living in an apartment.  Also, you know that I live on the 2nd floor (19 steps off the ground).  On the way up these steps I can see 2 of the 4 doors to the apartments on the first floor.  Each of these doors has a welcome mat in front of it.  As I go up the stairs I can see the doors to all 4 apartments on the 2nd floor (including mine of course).  All but mine have welcome mats as well.

This really started bugging me today.  I have no idea why.  The welcome mat is really just something to wipe your feet on and since it has seldom rained here, we really have no need.  Does not providing a welcome mat make me a bad neighbor or an unwelcoming host?  Does it make my apartment less inviting to passers-by?  So I walked up to the 3rd floor to see what they had in front of their doors.  Only 2 of the 4 had welcome mats.  So I walked downstairs to check out the 2 apartments that I could not see and they both have welcome mats.

So what have I learned today (other than there are a lot of places on the web to buy welcome mats)?  I think we can all agree that we have enough scientific evidence to prove that the higher the floor your apartment, the less "welcoming" you are.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon