Lifts

it annoys me when i cycle to work and have to go through the greenwich foot tunnel when the DLR is closed. All the people from the DLR come and use the lift and that makes us with bikes have to wait for ages. Not only that waiting for the lift sometimes takes a long time, and they'll happily stand there for 5 minutes waiting for a lift instead of taking the stairs.

Also I hate escalators - this is why so many people are obese, they are also a waste of energy - having them running all the time.
 
Justin said:
I like to call that 'awkward lift silence'.

It's weird, but very true how everyone goes silent in lifts.
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Well, what are you gonna say? Hi mate. Nice lift init? Lol!

Anyone any suggestions for lift banter? I am going to try and liven up my lift at my flat. :D
 
Jambo said:
Anyone any suggestions for lift banter? I am going to try and liven up my lift at my flat. :D
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Do you come here often? Up or down (best used when at the top or bottom floor so that there is only one option)? I've always had this terrible claustrophobia where I just lash out at people uncontrollably when I panic, how's your day been? Do you think we've enough time for a quickie between floors?

I'm sure there are plenty more options but I wouldn't want to give away everything.
 
Supposidly if you hold in the door close/open button and press your floor number it bypasses everything on they way there.
 
[TW]Fox;12617427 said:
Is it just me that this winds up?

Perfectly able bodied people using a lift to go up a whole ONE floor. Why do they do it? Are they THAT lazy?

It's such a nuisance when you are using the lift to get to the top of, say, a 10 storey building only for it to stop 5 times on the way so some lazy person can up a SINGLE floor despite the fact using the stairs would have been quicker than waiting for a lift anyway!
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It winds me up too. Many people are generally lazy and that annoys me as well. Although, we would not have many inventions if it had not been for laziness, to make things easier for us. Perhaps with intelligence comes laziness, a need to find an easier way of doing stuff, cars, planes, cookers, houses etc.
 
Yes annoys me, there is a 3 floor minimum as fas as I'm concerned, and less and you should be made to go back and do it again.

However, someone with a knee injury could do a good impression of an able bodied person.
 
People do this where I work as well. Some people are just very lazy.

However what I find more perplexing is this one women who despite being on two crutches (I assume broken ankle/foot) insists on using the stairs despite the lift not being in use. :confused:
 
when abroad use the lift, i decided to take the stairs in Atlantic City and ended up running around service corridors in the Casino for 20mins :(
 
I have to say I do find it irritating however I try to keep away from lifts as much as possible because I find them slower usually than running up the stairs! Actually I tend to peg it up the steps at Covent Garden station much to the amusement of everyone queueing for the lift! Always beat them to the top ;)
 
I'm in a wheelchair, so you can imagine how frustrating it is when the lift door opens to reveal that it's full of able bodied people.
Once *once* in this situation has someone looked at me and decided to get out to enable me to get in - shocking really. One day I'm going to just hold the lift door and demand people get out (who am I kidding, I'm far too polite for that!)
 
Gilly said:
Another thing that really bugs me is people that don't know how lifts work. There was one fat monstrosity in the hospital our lass had her knee operation in and she'd push the up button and down button no matter which direction she was wanting to travel.

It comes quicker if you do that, she'd tell people.

Fat *****.
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This does work sometimes, when I used to work in a tower building and it was 5pm (all lifts full) it meant you could get in the lift as it was going up almost empty and ride it back down instead of waiting for ages as lots of lifts too full of people went down :)

In response to the OP though, yep i don't get it, up or down 1 flight, it takes longer to get the lift, i used to regularly go up and down 5 floors on the stairs at work and up and down 6 floors at home (when i lived in a flat).
 
anticonscience said:
Really annoys me when you have someone go in the lift who like you say is perfectly able to walk up stairs, when me and the missus with our push chair are waiting and they give you such a glare for waiting for the lift! :mad:
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Was in Hamleys in London a couple of months ago, with the nipper asleep in the push-chair. Started waiting to get the lift down whilst on the penultimate floor and ran into another annoyed parent.

Anyway, he needed to get to the baby change facilities on the top floor and I think we each egged each other on...so, the lift opens full of fat, lazy people who should be using the escaltor and this guy very calmly orders them all off, saying they should be ashamed of themselves; cue lots of sheepish looking people filing out. :D
 
Muffin` said:
Why do we all get in do a 180 and stare at the doors and not make a noise?
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Haha, yeah, actually I think there's a YouTube video of this "Lift Psychology". Tis quite amusing. If a lift is full of people I sometimes stare the opposite direction cause it tends to freak people out. Highly amusing.
 
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