Lifts

semi-pro waster said:
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.
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1: when theres only 1 person in the elevator tap them on the shoulder then when they turn pretend it wasnt you.

2: push all the buttons then walk away. a few minutes later come back for more.

3: ask if you can push the buttons for other people then get them wrong

4: hold open the door and say you are waiting for a friend. after a while close them and say "hey george, hows your day been?"

5: stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionaly

6: drop a pen and wait til someone picks it up, then scream "THATS MINE!!!"

7: take a camara and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.

8: take a desk in and when somone comes in ask them if they have an appointment

9: put down a twister mat and ask everyone if they want to play

10: leave a box in the corner and ask if they can hear the ticking

11: pretend your a flight attendent and go over safety procedures.

12: ask "did u feel that!?!?"

13: when the doors close annonce "dont worry, they open again"

14: swat flies that dont exist

15: call out "group hug" and enforce it

16: grimace painfully, slap your forehead and mutter "shut up, all of you, SHUT UP!"

17: open your briefcase/purse and say into it "do you have enough air in there?"

18: stand silently facing the wall without getting off

19: stare at another passenger for a while then anounce " you're one of them" and back away slowly

20: wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers

21: listen to the walls with a stethoscope

22: make explosoin noises when anyone presses a button

23: grin at another passenger for a while then say "i have new socks on"

24: draw a little square on the floor and tell the others this is your "personal" space.

(i know, i know, its oooooooooold)
I find it funny watching people who have no idea how lifts work. For example, today i was on the 6th floor of an 8 storey building wanting to go down. " other pple standing there waiting. The lift opens (dusnt 'ping' or put the light out etc) and theres people in it who dont get out so its clearly going up...1 guy gets in it and it closes. We watch the LCD display above the lift...7...8...7...6...and it opens again to reveal the same guy standing there on his own.
 
Freefaller said:
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 ;)
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That's crazy, those stairs are scary when they're full with people going both directions. You read the sign at the bottom and think 'ah that's not many steps' and by the top most of the crowd is struggling to stand up.

apparently it's the equivalent of a 15 story building :)
 
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[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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I usually do it because I'm injured, sometimes it's visible Im injured so they dont shoot the evils but when It's muscle soreness and the only time it hurts is when climbing stairs I got sighs and moans when I hit 2.

But nothing wrong with being lazy either way......unless they're fat.
 
slambo69 said:
At the mech eng building here in my university, the elevators dont stop - you just gotta jump on/off!
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They used to have those in West Middlesex hospital when my mum worked there in the 70s, they have a special name beginning with a 'P' I think (like pendelino?). If you stayed on them you'd end up going through a dark bit in the roof and basement before the return journey. :D
 
Zogger said:
That's crazy, those stairs are scary when they're full with people going both directions. You read the sign at the bottom and think 'ah that's not many steps' and by the top most of the crowd is struggling to stand up.

apparently it's the equivalent of a 15 story building :)
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Oh yes it's a long way up, but I literally peg it up there - only when it's empty though. It's not a 15story building is it, it's only 195 steps and I've done it in about 80s or less. Either way I am knackered when I get to the top, but ALWAYS beat the lift.
 
Wicksta said:
They used to have those in West Middlesex hospital when my mum worked there in the 70s, they have a special name beginning with a 'P' I think (like pendelino?). If you stayed on them you'd end up going through a dark bit in the roof and basement before the return journey. :D
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Paternoster. When I was at uni at De Montfort there were two - one in the computing block (now demolished) and one in the main uni block.
 
Sounds like the OP might have experience of John Lester in Salford. A block of flats for the University there. I was once waiting for the lift. It was the only one in service as the other was knackered. So with double the business the lift was very slow. I waited for perhaps 4-5 mins for the lift. As did some girl. We both got on at the ground floor and I was headed up to the 8th floor. She got off at the 1st floor. :rolleyes:
 
We once decided to run down the stairs in our Vegas hotel after getting fedup of waiting for the lifts (ok so they were insanely efficient and the wait was never more than a minute or so at most), so we ran down the stairs to ground level from the 23rd floor, took a while :p
 
I don't use stairs where I can avoid them because I've got cartillidge problems in my knees, they're fine most of the time but if I over work them I find it hard to walk anywhere or bend my legs even.
And a lot of tall blocks have steep stairs.
 
I once took the lift in work, which I very rarely do, and there were about 6-7 people in there. The lift stopped at the ground floor(I got on at lower ground) and a guy who no longer works there entered the lift and stood facing the doors acting normal but as soon as the doors closed he turned around, facing everyone and glanced over us all with a cheeky smile. He then proceeded to recite Shakespeare's Hamlet with his arm raised as if he were holding a skull.

Very surreal, indeed.
 
Agreed I work on the second floor of my building and almost everyone uses the lifts, I prefer the limited exercise unless i'm carrying something heavy. Luckily I only work in a small building so no problems with constant stopping.
 
In most cases it's easier to find the lifts than the stairs. If the lifts are right there in front of you when you walk in, and you have no idea where the stairs are, you're going to take the lift.

Plus if you're a postie like me 10 lift rides is a lot easier than ten flights of stairs.
 
Muffin` said:
Long hair with a scruffy appearance with music/geky t-shirts? I've met 1 of those, I don't know where the rest are. It's a poor stero type people give of us :(
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I cycle many miles, go walking, hill walking, & mountaineering and do Tae Kwon Do and other in the department go swimming for a few K's before work or go to the gym.

It is a outdated stereotype, no wonder people think so badly of IT people. :(

People who go up one floor in lifts annoy me as well.
 
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