The gate

[Red Squirrel]

There's this cathedral that's still being worked on, and the workers have
rigged a "cage elevator" inside so they can get material up and down to the
upper floors.

A characteristic of these "cage elevators" is that the doors (gates) must be
closed manually for them to be "called" to another floor.

One day one of the workers, named Peter, takes the elevator to the top
floor, and it is subsequently needed on the first floor by the sexton.
Unfortunately, Peter forgot and left the door open.

After the sexton rings for the elevator a couple times, to no avail, he
yells up for the worker to send the lift back down.

Visitors were deeply perplexed when they witnessed the sexton of the
cathedral, with his head tipped up, yelling to the heavens, "Peter! Close
the gate!"

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