Here's my rant today. Parents, teach your children elevator etiquette!

[Maddy McCall]

I can't tell you how many times I've been bombarded by ADULTS trying to hop on an elevator before I've even stepped off. I've seen young adults run over elderly adults--and this is in a place that has FOUR elevators.

The longest I've ever had to wait for an elevator at this place is two minutes. Yet, if I push the call button while I'm waiting on the first floor to get up to the tenth floor, it never fails that some dickwad will attempt to shoot past me to beat me onto the elevator, even though he was behind me, and I was the one who pushed the freaking call button.

So here are very simple rules that we as parents should instill in our children, so that when they grow up to become adults, they won't piss off people who do have manners:

1. When you push the call button and are waiting for the elevator to come, step back from the doors, and allow everyone on the elevator to step off before you step on. It's just a law of physics that it will be easier for all involved if the people who are on the elevator who want to step off have room to do so before you crowd in.


2. If someone is waiting for the elevator to come, and you arrived after they did and they are the ones who pushed the call button, give them the right of way to get on the elevator first. Then you can get on.

3. If I am on the elevator and it stops on your floor, when you are loading onto the elevator, do not shove your four bags of luggage into my shins, or I just might go postal on you. If there isn't room on the elevator for you, your wife, the stroller, your five kids, and your six bags of luggage and ice chest, I would suggest you wait for the next elevator.

Ok, rant over. People who have no elevator manners really anger me.

[merh]

1. Life's ups & downs!

:shrug:

Thanks for the pointers! :hi:

:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

4. LOL.

I just had a woman run into me trying to get on the elevator when I was getting off of it. She was probably 25, and I had a drink in my hand, HAD being the operative word.

She didn't even say "excuse me." I turned around and said, "What is your damned problem? Do you have an emergency to attend to??"

She replied, "You should have gotten out of my way."

I just rolled my eyes and walked on. I easily could have slapped the shit out of her, but it wasn't worth being asked to leave the premises. :)

Mind you, I was coming off the elevator and SHE was getting on it.

Freaking idiots with no manners. Trailer trash.

[merh]

7. She must have been a tourist.

Most folks from our area do teach their children manners. I don't want to be accused of mocking any regions of the county, if you catch my drift ;-) Did she have an accent?

Sadly though, too many people have failed their children by not teaching them manners and the respect of others. I am glad to know that you MMjr has a good teacher. :pals:

[Maddy McCall]

13. I didn't notice any accent.

She had on a godawful strapless boobtube minidress. And scraggly blonde hair. Nothing spectacularly memorable about her, except for her ugly dress and bad manners.

:D (Ok, I admit that that was snarky, but passive aggression is all I have right now. :D )

:pals:

[merh]

17. It wasn't that snarky and since the post contained no regional

slams, you are safe. :P

:thumbsup: Maybe you should take the stairs? :shrug:

:pals:

[Maddy McCall]

19. Read MrsGrumpy's post below.

:rofl:

[merh]

21. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

9. WTF?!?!

She runs into you and then has the unmitigated temerity to BLAME YOU?!?! :grr:

[Maddy McCall]

11. Oh you don't know how close I came.

But security here is really tight and I'd have been escorted off of the premises, I have no doubt, if I would have done what I wanted to do.

The funny thing was, MMjr. said, when we were on the elevator and the doors closed, "Mom, some people just aren't civilized."

There was an elderly couple on the elevator that saw the whole thing. The man said, "That's right, son!" and then we all had a good laugh.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Maybe they should put security in the elevators.

People like that &^%#@ need to be escorted off the premises.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Who raised these people, wolves?

My mom would smack me TODAY if I was that rude in public.

So many selfish people in this world today. x(

[Maddy McCall]

5. Read my response to merh.

Post #4. That was the final straw of the terrible elevator manners I've seen in the past couple of months.

:grr: And good for your mother. I'm teaching my kid the same manners. I only had to correct MMjr about this once--I literally grabbed him by his upper arm and pulled him back when he tried to charge onto the elevator. Then I explained the above rules to him. He's good about following my versiion of elevator etiquette now. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Wolves do a much better job than humans in raising their offspring,

IMHO!

(It's OK, my dear GOPisEvil, I just happen to LOVE wolves!)

[GOPisEvil]

10. Well, they certainly raise them to follow wolf etiquette.

:hi:

[Darth_Kitten]

3. Here! Here!!!

:thumbsup:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Just had to get it out of my system.

:)

[LynneSin]

12. I hate elevators - may I add something

NO, THERE IS NO MORE FUCKING ROOM ON THE ELEVATOR TO SQUEEZE ON 3 MORE PEOPLE ON THE ALREADY OVERSTUFF, OVERPACKED ELEVATOR - WAIT FOR THE NEXT FUCKING ELEVATOR OR YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH ME WHO IS STUCK IN THE BACK ABOUT TO GO FREAKAZOID ON EVERYONE

Think I'm kidding - ask JimmyJazz, I almost went ballistic in the horrible elevator we had at the hotel where we stayed at. We had a packed elevator filled with people and their luggage and some guy was like "Sure there's room for a few more". People saw me freaking out as I screamed to get out of the elevator before it left. Ended up walking down 16 flights

[Maddy McCall]

16. AMEN!

Yes, you and your huge dufflebag can wait for the next elevator. :grr:

[Darth_Kitten]

40. I like to say to people you and your shopping cart......

can go on the next elevator.

I'm evil about elevators, sometimes, just for fun (and because I'm weird and live on the second floor) I'll push all the buttons for the next twenty floors.
:evilgrin:

I know, I know. :hide:

[swimmernsecretsea]

25. Which reminds me...

A backpack is not absorbed into your body when you wear one. It extends out another 1-1.5 feet behind you. Why don't you take it off when you get into an elevator, or at least move as close as possible to the doors so you don't mash someone's face in?

[Maddy McCall]

26. Yep, I've eaten more than one student's backpack on my work....

elevator. I push back, though. :D

[LynneSin]

28. Same with those oversized purses

Damn, they bruise!

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Take the stairs! It's healthier!

Just kidding. I just wanted to be the asshole who comes in and tries to turn this into a flame thread. I'm totally in agreement. It happens to me all the time. :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

18. Alright, you just made my head explode. :-)

I DO take the stairs at work, but at the hotel where we are, you can't take the stairs unless it's an emergency. All of the doors have one-way locks on them. In other words, if you wanted to go from the 15th to the 12th floor, you couldn't, because the 12th floor door would be locked from the inside.

You gave me a great laugh after I saw you were kidding me. I was honestly ready to explode when I read the thread title, and then I saw it was you who posted it, and I knew you wouldn't be so rude. :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I am not in the business of exploding heads...I just pretend to.

;) Although I did a fairly good job of really exploding a head the other day unintentionally.

It is really disturbing to see grown people act in this manner. That and people with carts in grocery stores, especially Meijer, zooming in front of you to get ahead in line or to an aisle quicker. :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

22. Tell me about it.

Or getting in the express line with a basket that is dropping groceries because it's so overladen.

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Yes, and counting 30 boxes of the cheerios that are on sale as

one item. :mad:

[Maddy McCall]

27. And having coupons or ad-matches for EVERY FUCKING ITEM!

Christ, I'm getting mad, and I haven't been grocery shopping in two weeks. :rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. I had to go today so it's *fresh*.

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

33. Don't get me started.

I can go on and on about rude shoppers, not just at the grocery store. :grr:

[hickman1937]

38. hey! In my defense, I was in a regular line next to express.

A very nicely dressed man who was standing observing the lines(wearing a Meijers polo shirt and looking like a manager) said, "mam, you can go in the express line" which was all but empty. I had 20 items. Then he left, and some nazi, who didn't see any of that exchange got in line behind me shooting me dirty looks. This happened 4 days ago and I'm really sorry.:P

[China_cat]

23. Try it in a wheel chair some time.

If you think you're angry now, borrow a chair and see what happens.

[Maddy McCall]

31. When I had my broken leg, I got to see the world from your view.

And I had never realized how UNIVERSALLY rude people are. Oh, I had a brain hemmorhage with the manager of Sam's Club...the handicapped stalls were missing doors and had water standing two inches deep in them.

I certainly can understand, although I can't imagine how it must be to have to deal with rude people from a wheelchair's vantage point for more than a couple of months.

:hug:

[ET Awful]

29. You forgot the number one elevator rule

Do NOT pass gas on the freakin' elevator.

[Maddy McCall]

32. LOL! Or burp after you've eaten the "all you can eat" Mexican buffet.

Amen! :rofl:

[swimmernsecretsea]

34. Now, that sounds like just normal behavior

and that whomever did the polluting would think ahead and know that he/she might exit the elevator to hostile stares, but no. No! What the hell?! Who ever thought that dropping a neutron bomb in an enclosed space is acceptable? And then leaving as if nothing happened?

[grace0418]

35. Elevator manners? How about ANY kind of manners.

I cannot believe the lack of manners so many people have, and they teach their kids to behave like cavepeople.

[Maddy McCall]

36. Actually, kids become adults.

That adults have such atrocious manners is what is disturbing to me.

[Pithlet]

37. I hate that.

I haven't had kids do that to me, though, but adults who should know better. One woman barged into the elevator as I was trying to get off with a stroller. If my kid hadn't been in it, I would have rammed her with it. And she gave ME a look as if I were the one being so rude to attempt to get off the elevator.

[Maddy McCall]

39. That's exactly the mentality I've been dealing with.

I swear, these people were raised in barns. :grr: