Guys! Please behave...well, in Elevator!

So you’d think that using an elevator is pretty simple, right? Well, not for everyone. As inane as this might sound, there really are some people who need a crash course in elevator etiquette and if by chance you are guilty of any, I strongly suggest you mend your ways.

Let’s not forget those irksome children who think any button they see is to be fiddled around with? They randomly run their itchy fingers along all the elevator buttons forcing the doors open at every floor for absolutely no reason. This breed is often accompanied by maids who couldn’t care less. Talk about exasperating!

Once the elevator leaves a certain floor, it’s not like it’s gone forever. It will be back. But apparently, not everyone knows that. That’s why when the elevator has reached its maximum capacity (usually around 6 pm), there will always be those people who insist on getting on and smashing everyone else, making us feel like sardines in a can!

Office elevators with mirrors are great for checking your appearance before stepping in for a meeting or interview. What is not so great is people using them to check whether they’ve got food stuck in their teeth, apply make up or test their artificial smiles and poses. There are washrooms for that, you know. But then again, it can actually be quite amusing.

I think it’s a great gesture to hold the door open for someone who is walking towards the elevator. Insisting on keeping the doors open for over 2 minutes while everyone in the elevator is held up is just stupid! If you are so desperate to ride the elevator with your friend, I suggest you wait outside the elevator till he/ she arrives. Any thoughts?

You’ll watch them enter the elevator sneezing, sniffling and even rubbing their noses and then they go right ahead and press the elevator buttons. Have you ever heard of using a tissue?

In really tall buildings, it’s bad enough that the elevator takes so long to reach my floor. But what really sucks is when it does arrive, I’m approaching the doors and no one in the elevator will bother to hold the “Open Door” button! In fact, they’ll stare right back at me with this “O, you poor thing” expression. Would it really hurt so much if you waited two seconds longer?

It’s usually the biggest guy in the elevator that will take the most inconvenient spot (for everyone else I mean). He’ll stand right at the entrance of the elevator even though he plans to get off last. What’s worse, he’ll move just an inch, every time the elevator doors open forcing me and everyone else in the elevator to squeeze our way in and out. Something tells me he’s doing it on purpose.

I’ve never quite understood why some people barge into elevators like they own them without any consideration for those who want to get off. It’s also the same lot that always want to step out first! Has no one told them these aren’t the local trains?

So you’ve probably seen this in the movies: Guy farts. People hold their noses disgusted. Guy looks around nonchalantly. Well, the scenario is just a wee bit different in elevators especially around lunch hour. Here’s how it goes: Guy burps loud and unabashedly. Everyone knows who it is. Guy feels no awkwardness whatsoever. I usually follow this up with a loud ‘Eeeewww!’

Then there are people who enter the elevator while talking on their cell phones. I have no problem with that. The problem arises when they realise that their phones are losing reception and they start to yell on the top of their lungs in the hope that the other person will hear them. It’s moments like these I wish my penetrating glare would somehow zap them!


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