The State Office Building in Saginaw has three floors with a mechanical penthouse above the third floor. And even though the penthouse is always locked, there is a high locked gate at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the penthouse.

I thought this to be rather odd having a locked gate and a locked door so I asked the building manager about the double security. He indicated that there had been a office romance a few years back.

It seems that the couple would slip up the stairs to the penthouse landing. And even though they couldn’t get into the penthouse, they would be out of sight for their intimate moments during lunch. Of course, the state doesn’t condone such activities so the stairway gate was erected.

I guess if you want to do those kind of things, you need to run across the street to that cheap motel.