There are un-written rules that everyone who rides elevators follow
1. When you are waiting for an elevator and there are two sets, the one
2. While you are riding the elevator, it is not permissible to look
3. The person at the very back of the elevator will always be the one who
4. If you are on the top floor of a 32 story building and needed to go
5. If you get off on the wrong floor and realize it the instant your foot
6. When there are six elevator doors, the one you stand in front of will
7. When the elevator is the most full, one of two people will be on with
8. Don't pass gas in an elevator even if you are all alone because when
9. If you speak to a stranger in an elevator there will always be nervous
10. The friendliest person on the elevator that insists on talking to you
11. Elevators force us to be close to people that we would never choose
12. The first person to get on the elevator gets the command position
13. While waiting on an elevator, there will always be one person to
14. Once inside the elevator that same person will repeatedly punch the
15. On top of the list of the most annoying elevator pet peves is the
16. The floor that is la bled the 1st floor is not really the 1st floor
17. If you are not in any hurry, there will always be an empty elevator
18. In buildings where smoking is allowed, there will always be one
19. If a child rides the elevator, they will have a balloon that just
20. I would rather ride the elevator with people than take the stairs
whether they know it or not. It's not something that anyone has placed
into effect by law...It's just the way things are....
that is the greatest distance from you will open first.
anyone in the eyes. The proper place to stare is at the floor or at the
numbers.
needs off first.
the 1st floor, the elevator will stop 31 times before you reach the
ground.
hits the ground outside the elevator, it's much to embarrassing to admit
you are wrong, so you stay outside the door and act like you know what
you're doing then catch the next one and hope all the people you were
with have gotten off.
be the last to open.
you: an extremely sick man who coughs constantly and then gets off on the
same floor you do, or a lady with a baby that screams through the entire
ride.
you do, the very next stop will have ten people waiting to get on. It's
always best to wait until the elevator is full then no one knows who to
blame.
laughter.
will always have bad breath and body odor.
to be around otherwise. If you want a cultural experience, spend a day
riding elevators around town.
next to the buttons so that they can feel important when people ask them
to punch their floor for them.
comment on how slow the elevator is and then push the up or down button
over and over as if that will make it speed up.
button for their floor thinking that this also will speed up the
elevator.
parent who will allow their child to push the buttons and then smile at
you after the kid has pushed all 26 buttons while you are on the first
floor needing to get to the 25th floor. Then at every floor the kid will
yell "Is this where we get off?"
but is in reality the basement. Ther 1st floor is actually la bled the
2nd floor.
just waiting with the doors open just for you by yourself.
person who insist on taking the last drag off their cigarette putting it
out then waiting to exhale until the elevator door closes with you
trapped inside.
happens to be at your face level and there is no place to turn. Popping
the balloon is a strong temptation.
alone!