a brand new luxy hotel had opened, and everything was pluperfect, except for one fly in the brilliantine: the lift -elevator for you yankeedoodles - was t.o.o.o. s.l.o.w.
refitting it was an expensively unthinkable nightmare, so after a lot of headscratching to stimulate the parietal lobes, a genius came up with the solution, at very little cost....
install mirrors in the foyer!
proving old ecclesiastes' point... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
It may be apochryphal, but one can find a million real examples. You can't be me, I'm taken