i have a general rule in that i never take an elevator unless i'm traversing more than 3 floors. the scenario you have described happens every day. the worse thing i hate about a lot of people at work...and i apologize to you if you are one of these people...is they come to work with their damn carry-on bags with the rollers. i just can't stand it. they look like a bunch of flight attendants in an airport fixing to board a plane or something. it used to be nobody did that EVER...even though those bags have been around for a while. now, everybody is doing it for some reason. i can understand it more for those people who come on-site for business from an airport or hotel...but it seems like all the regular employees are doing it because their too lazy to use their hand to carry a bag. some people who stack like 20 things on there...i can understand.
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I hate how sometimes the elevator gets stuck midway thru the floors then the lights go out and the fire alarm sounds. Then next thing you know the wire holding the elevator afloat starts to deteriorate and you have a few minutes to get out or you'll fall to your doom along with the elevator. The squat team is eventually called and attempts to help get people out, but someone always gets left and dies. I hate it when that happens.
My pet peeve is those locked security doors so that when I try to walk a few floors, I end up locked in the stairwell, having to go all the way down again! Even the fire access doors (every fifth floor or so)...are sometimes alarmed so you can't get in without setting off the bells.
I hate when people bust ass in the elevator and then they get out on a floor before me and then I get to the bottom of the floor and people think its me.
I work at a university. You'd think these peeps would have some education (at least a G.E.D.). At least ONCE a week, a person sees the doors open to the elevator, and asks us (the people inside) which way we're going. Are you British, or just STUPID? If you pressed UP on the buttons outside, and the light turns off, that means we ARE going UP. If the UP light doesn't turn off, that means we're going DOWN. If the elevator rings ONCE, it's going UP. If the elevator rings TWICE, it's going DOWN. If the doors open, wait for the lady's voice on the speaker to say "X floor. Going DOWN" or "X floor. GOING UP". ------------------------------- When friends are in the elevator, I like being an a-hole to them when the door opens: "Are you guys going UP? " [guy that holds the door answers] "Yes, we are." "Cool, 'cuz I'm going down. " " " I never said "Hold the door, please!" you big dummy!
