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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Elevators...are they that difficult?

I have always thought that elevators were pretty easy to operate, but going up and down in the elevator in the building this morning I realized that it wasn't all that easy to everyone. I'm on the 32nd floor of a 36-floor building. Except for my office (which has floors 32-36), every floor is a separate buisiness. Thus, if you're on a lower floor and somone is in the elevator going down, they are likely headed to the first floor...which means that the "1" button is already pushed. Inevetably though, every single subsequent person that gets in the elevator insists on pushing the "1" button. WHY? If it's already lit up, you know that's where it is headed and it doesn't need your approval. Simple concept: if the floor you are going to is already lit up in the bank of buttons that correspond to floors of the building, then you don't have to re-press the button. Pushing the button after it's already been depressed does not make the elevator go any faster, and it's not like the elevator forgot that someone wanted to go to that floor already.

So, for the sake of my sanity, if you ever get in an elevator with me and you're going to a floor whose button has already been pushed, PLEASE AVOID PUSHING THE BUTTON AGAIN. Simple to me, sure...but sometimes it seems like I'm taking the "slow elevator."

2 Comments:

  • At 10:42 AM, Blogger jprg4evr said…

    I like to make fun patterns with the elevator buttons.

    Want to add to this little rant? How about those people waiting to board the elevator? The process is:
    1. Current passengers vacate the elevator car.
    2. New passengers enter the elevator car.
    For some reason, a lot of people are like anxious dogs. They are so narrow minded and self-centered they have no patience for elevator etiquette. I'm afraid if the elevator door were to become fouled and do an open-close-open-close kind of thing that these people would piddle on the floor.

    Rant done.

     
  • At 11:43 AM, Blogger Ryan said…

    Pushing the button on some elevators makes the door close... and some elevators don't have a "door close" button.

    I've been in enough quirky elevators over the years to know that I better push the button for my floor even if it's already pushed.

    Meanwhile, let's not let de-elevator bring us down. Oh no, let's go crazy.

     

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