[ man ] welcome to the seven and a half floor of the mertin flemmer building.
As you'll now be spending your work day here, it is important...
That you learn a bit about the history of this famous floor.
Hello, don. Hello, wendy.
Don, I was wondering, do you know why...
Our workplace has such low ceilings ?
It's an interesting story. Many years ago in the late 1800s,
James mertin, an irish ship captain, came to this town...
And decided to erect an office building.
He called this building the mertin flemmer building after himself...
And someone else, who local legend has it was named flemmer.
Well, one day, old captain mertin received an unexpected visitor.
Captain mertin ? Aye. What want ye, girl child ?
I'm not a child, but rather an adult lady of miniature proportions.
I see. Well, if it's charity you're after,
Be gone with ye, you foul demon !
I'm not asking for alms,
But, rather, the ear of a kind man with a noble heart.
[ captain ] well, speak then, if you must.
Captain mertin, I'm afraid that the world was not built with me in mind.
Doorknobs are too high, chairs are unwieldy...
And high-ceilinged rooms mock my stature.
Why cannot there be a place for me to work that's safe and comfortable ?
[ captain ] thy story has moved me like no other.
Therefore, I shall make ye-- [ groans ] me wife.
And-- and I shall build a floor for ye...
Between the seventh and the eighth in me own building...
So at least there'll be one place on god's green earth...
Where ye and your accursed kind can live in peace.
So that's the story of seven and a half.
Since the rents are considerably lower, this floor has been adopted...
By businesses which, for one reason or another, have been forced to cut corners.
After all, the overhead is low.
[ both laughing ]
â™Ş [ theme music ]
[ music stops ]
Moving story, huh ?
Unfortunately, the story's bullshit.