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Fun Things to Do in an Elevator
- Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
- Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your
kleenex to other passengers.
- Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and
muttering: Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!
- Whistle the first seven notes of It's a Small World
incessantly.
- Sell Girl Scout cookies.
- On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural
frequency of the elevator.
- Shave.
- Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering
inside ask: Got enough air in there?
- Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear
yours upside-down.
- Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the
wall, without getting off.
- When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the
doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by
themselves.
- Lean over to another passenger and whisper: Noogie patrol
coming!
- Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm
handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
- Floss your teeth.
- On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that
it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down
the shaft go plink at the bottom.
- Do Tai Chi exercises.
- Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and
then announce: I've got new socks on!
- When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back:
Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!
- Give religious tracts to each passenger.
- Meow occassionally.
- Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your
nose.
- Frown and mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh
and say oops!
- Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks
infected.
- Sing Mary had a little lamb while continually pushing
buttons.
- Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator
descends.
- Walk on with a cooler that says human head on the side.
- Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce
You're one of "THEM!" and move to the far corner
of the elevator.
- Burp, and then say "mmmm...tasty!"
- Leave a box between the doors.
- Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button
for them.
- Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers
through it.
- Start a sing-along.
- When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is
that your beeper?"
- Play the harmonica.
- Shadow box and hum "Eye of the Tiger".
- Say "Ding!" at each floor.
- Lean against the button panel.
- Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the
red buttons.
- Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
- Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce
to the other passengers that this is your personal space.
- Bring a lawn chair along for the ride.
- Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger:
Wanna see whaf in muh mouf?
- Blow spit bubbles.
- Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
- Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more
suitable host body."
- Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
- Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
- Wear X-Ray Specs and leer suggestively at other
passengers.
- Stare at your thumb and say I think it's getting larger.
- If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler"
Bad touch!"