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Thursday, May 06, 2004
  Rojor
In my building there are 28 floors, not including the ground floor. As is the case in most high rise buildings, the lifts are designed to take you to a range of floors, but not all of the floors. I have to use the lifts that operate between 17 and 28. There are 5 lifts that do this. For the past few months something strange has been appearing in these lifts. One by one, someone has been scrawling the word "Rojor" high up above the door on the inside of each lift. I have no idea who is doing it, but I do know a couple of things about the person who I will call by their tag - "Rojor".

1. Rojor is tall. The spot above the door of the lift where the tag goes is quite high up. I wouldn't be able to reach it without jumping, and someone who had to jump to do it wouldn't be able to write - no time to get the letters up neatly. And it's a very legible tag.

2. Rojor is patient. As I said, it has taken a few months for the tag to spread to all the lifts, and it's quite rare that you could ride the lift all the way by yourself - they stop frequently. So Rojor has to wait until no-one else is in the lift - and that means Rojor must carry a texta almost all the time, ready for the opportunity to scrawl the tag.

My guess is Rojor is a courier. A courier has every reason to carry a texta, and they often visit the same buildings over and over. More specifically I think Rojor is a bike courier - bike couriers just seem to be the kind of edgy hipsters that still like to tag up, get on their bikes and fly down Bourke St listening to speed garage or something. I don't think someone that works here could plausibly carry a texta around all the time.

Anyway, when I get the chance I'll take a photo of the Rojor's tag - but I don't want to do it when there's someone else in the lift, cause then they'll think I did it.

If Rojor is a courier, then I wouldn't be surprised to see the tag in other buildings in the CBD. I'll have to keep an eye out.
 
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