Anatomy of the Second Floor Lunchroom Encounter

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[TD="class: postcell"]Ground floor First floor:

• In British English, the floor of a building which is level with the ground is called the ground floor. The floor above it is called the first floor, the floor above that is the second floor, and so on.
  
• In American English, the floor which is level with the ground is called the first floor, the floor above it is the second floor, and so on.
  

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Mute point or not, it was an explanation of the possible confusion between ground and first floor.

To my knowledge, Dallas, Texas, is in the UnitedStates of America, so at the TSBD Building, the first floor is the first floor, and is not a ground floor. Although a mute point as to where the 2nd floor lunchroom encounter occurred, it actually is a provable cause for some early ambiguity regarding floor counting by someone, like DPD Officer ML Baker, who was not familiar with the building.

Officer Baker was American, so should have been aware that the bottom floor was the first, according to your arguments.

Whether a moot point, or a point in need of muting, as well as whether he went up steps or stairs, the TSBD 1st floor is well above ground level, and considering when and why DPD Officer ML Baker had entered the building, it should be reasonable to expect some early ambiguity relative to his recall of the situation.