LynneSin's rant of the day: FREAKING ELEVATORS AND THE FOLKS THAT USE THEM

[LynneSin]

GRRRRRRRR.....if I didn't work high up in this damn building I'd walk the steps everyday (I do more than 4 flights and I'm all sweaty - not good for work). But damnit, some folks just have no manners on elevators :mad:

First and foremost!!!! If you're only going 1 or 2 floors - WALK THE DAMN STEPS!! I may not have the ability to walk up the 20 flights of steps to get to my floor, but if I have to go up or down a few I'd rather just take the steps. Nothing is worse than someone who gets in an elevator only to get off the next damn floor. And this isn't someone who has a disability (unless laziness is considered one).

Second: There will always be MORE elevators. So if you see one that stops and it's packed full, just wait for another one or TAKE THE DAMN steps. I've been in packed elevators (usually stuck in the back because I'll never get on a packed elevator) and it'll stop on the floor and someone will be like "Oh another person can fit in here". One of these days I'll scream out when someone tries to pack in a full elevator.

Third (and this happen not once but TWICE today): Two people are waiting for the elevators but are opposite directions. When the one person gets in the elevator and yet continues to have their conversation with the person who isn't getting on the elevator. This morning I waited 3 minutes for this lady to finish up her conversation with the person not getting on the elevator. I was about ready to shove her out the elevator so I could get to my floor (which was 6 more flights up).

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[Raven]

1. Awwwww!

Are you ever right on! How about people on elevators who insist on going into detail about their personal lives...or someone else's personal life?

[meegbear]

6. Oh people that bitch about elevator people ...

making posts about about it on discussion boards. Jeez.

[Skittles]

2. OMG!!!!

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT TODAY! A group of people got on the elevator on FLOOR 2 to go down: the subject of conversation? HOW HARD IT IS TO LOSE WEIGHT! I KID YOU NOT! :O

[LynneSin]

3. no way

I'd lean over and suggest walking steps as a way of helping out those troublesome thighs and butt muscles!

[CO Liberal]

4. Stairs Can Be TORTURE....

...when you have arthritis in both knees and two herniated discs, like I do. When an elevator is available, I always take it.

[LynneSin]

10. Then about 90% of my company must have arthritis in both knees

because I don't know of anyone who bothers with the stairs outside myself and the girl that sits next to me. No wonder my health insurance is going up again - all these young people with bad knees.

BTW, I have a family member with bad arthritis and yes, I can appreciate where the elevators are much more useful. But you dont' see anyone taking stairs in this building!

[ant]

5. a good habit I picked up in college

(Heh - how often do you hear THAT?)

Anyway, the elevators in our dorm sucked - they were really slow, and there were only 2-3 for the whole building, so there was this unoffical rule about getting off at certain floors. For instance, if you got on an elevator and two people hit floors 5 and 7, but you needed to go to six, YOU WOULD NOT HIT 6. Instead you would get off at 5 or 7 and take the stairs.

I've just always felt this should catch on to society at large. I hate getting in an elevator at the bottom floor only to have it stop on every damn floor from there on up. That's not necessary, people. Let's show a little common sense and get some exercise while we're at it.

[Padraig18]

7. Unfortunately

Both common sense and common courtesy are in grieviously short supply these days.

[bamademo]

8. I can understand that rant

My pet peeve are people getting on the down elevator and pushing the upper floor buttons and people not looking to see if anyone is exiting the elevator before they get on. I work in a small Army hospital and some of these people are frail and elderly so I really do a slow burn when rude people just barrel into the elevators and smack into little old WWII veterans.

[Bake]

9. Geez, people, it's a f-ing ELEVATOR.

That's what it's for. If it stops on every damn floor, so what? It's still faster than the stairs. Are you in that big a hurry? I can understand about the people who stand there and hold the door open while they finish their 5-minute conversation, but "rules" about which floors you can push and which ones you can't? C'mon. As somebody pointed out, there ARE people with bad knees, arthritis, etc., and I'm not going to tell them they can't push "6" because "5" and "7" are already lit up.

Bake

[VOX]

11. Another: Idiots who stick their hands in the elevator doors...

Just as they are about 6 inches away from closing shut. The door then jerks open, the idiot gets on, and so do another half-dozen people who stream in behind him, slow as sheep at a railroad crossing. You're lucky if the door ever closes.

Great rant, LynneSin. I work on the 15th floor, and I see your entire catalog of offenders several times per day. Our building manager even posted memos about not riding one-two floors, but people do it anyway.

It's the usual "me first" syndrome. :mad:

[curlyred]

12. Thank you, LynneSin

My thoughts exactly.

[NashVegas]

13. I Try Not to Let it Get to Me

.. but sometimes ..

The only time I get really truly bothered by this is when I'm starving and have a hot lunch in my hands. The cafeteria is on 17 and there're constantly people getting on that floor to go to 18. Then I get antsy.

I work on the 30th floor of a building that has state offices packed into the 18-21st floors. There's quite a bit of traffic between 21-17 - they're constantly taking breaks on 17 - and I wish they just had their own elevator.

More hysterical is people who get on to go down one floor. It's hard not to burst out laughing at them.

As for the people who try to carry on conversations and hold the doors open, with a smile on my face I let them know I have somewhere to be.

[TrogL]

14. Some buildings have locked stairwells

for security reasons. Once you're in, you have to walk to the bottom.

Regardless, I know what you mean.

One time a colleague and I ran into a building a jumped into an elevator to try to get to the 9th floor. Some idiot stops the thing on fourth and stands there holding it to talk to somebody in the hall.

We bail out, get another elevator to finish going up. Behind us we can hear him say "geez...they're rude...nobody needs to be in that much of a hurry."

Well duh the freaking mail server just crashed, leaving 250 people twiddling their thumbs. That's why I wear running shoes to work.

[TXlib]

15. I used to work on the top floor of a 34 story building

Many times I had the same experience as you, of some asshole spending a few minutes chatting with somebody else, who was not getting on the elevator, while everybody on the elevator waited.

I stopped being polite. I'd tell the person to get off to have his chat, or else get on and not hold up the elevator.

On one instance, some woman was having a cackling hen party with some of her coworkers, holding me up around the 20th floor, on the way down at the end of the day to try to catch my bus. After it became clear that she wasn't ending her conversation soon (after about 30 seconds) I told her I was late for a bus. She glared at me and then continued her conversation, still holding up the elevator.

At that point I picked up my cell phone and told her I was dialing building security to complain about her, and I'd be stopping by her company the next day to lodge a complaint about her. She took her finger off the hold button, but glared at me the whole way down.

She was wearing her nametag, and I stopped by her company the next day and complained, about both her holding up the elevator, and her rude and hostile attitude.

[curse10]

16. I feel the same exact way

I now refuse to hold the elevator for anyone after I was forced to stop on the second floor so often. When ya work on the 20th floor of a building, yes, take an elevator, but if you are only going up or down one (unless you are truly physically incapable of doing so), I agree, TAKE THE DAMN STAIRS!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Well, I'm guilty of it...

but I've got bad ankles. I live in a building without an elevator. Not to mention I have asthma. I agree about the people holding the door open to talk, and the idiots that will take the elevator down one flight...but If there's an elevator in a building, I'm going to use it to go up. That's why it's there.
Duckie

[Breezy du Nord]

18. i'm not handicapped. i'm just lazy.

Great Simpsons quote. :P

[BiggJawn]

19. I'm glad the ventilation's good in ours....

Because my meds make me fart a lot.
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ONLY WHEN I'M ALONE! ALONE!