So, I work on the 9th floor and you work on the 2nd. Almost every morning when we meet you enter the elevator with me. You press 2 and I get angry. The stairs to floor 2 are right next to the elevators. If you have say, knee issues, then I understand, however, you seem young and virile (even though I shouldn’t judge, I know). If you want me to break your legs and give you a reason to use the elevator, I will! Take your ass up the stairs! You may ask why I don’t you walk up the 8 flights… well sir, according to my calculations that would be 144 steps and a really sweaty me by the time I get there! —Walk
This article appears in May 12-18, 2011.
No, I’m not going to ask why you don’t choose to walk up nine flights of stairs. Y’know why – It’s none of my fucking business. And it doesn’t become any more of my fucking business as the number of flights decrease.
Get my point Herr Oberliftfahrtzugfurher?
144 steps and you would be sweaty? Geezuz, you need a medical evaluation or get more exercise in your day……..and you b!tch about the guy from the second floor!
Meh
meh x 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_huqm7usE
You spent way too much time thinking about this.
Well, shit, OP, maybe there should be legislation banning all HRM elevators from stopping on the 2nd floor – get over yourself and demonstrate some patience, ya twit. What are you losing timewise? All of 27 seconds?
You know what? You’re right. You shouldn’t judge. You have no idea what physical ailment or limitation this person may have. Maybe they DO have knee problems. Maybe they have foot, ankle, shin, thigh, hip or back problems. Maybe he has a prosthetic limb. (Can you say for sure?) Maybe he has a phobia of stairwells. Or maybe he has no ailment or disability at all. The fact of the matter is that the elevator is there for EVERYONE to use, regardless of what floor they are going to or what their physical condition is. It’s not exclusive usage only for people going higher than the 3rd floor, of people with disabilities or for someone with their arms full. If it was, there would be some sort of sign and the buttons would start at 3. I’m with Ivan on this one. It’s really nunya! I hope this guy reads this bitch and the next time he gets on the elevator with you, he hits every fucking button and leaves just before the doors close, maybe muttering as he leaves, “You know what? On second thought I think I’ll take the stairs. Afterall, it’s only 1 floor.”
Why bother saying anything. If the person in quesiton is merely lazy, then surely enough life will catch up to them via heart attack, etc. But if he/she has a legit excuse, then you’re just another impatient asshole.
My mom walks quite well, but still has pain from her injury last december and thus can’t walk DOWN the stairs, so yah you shouldn’t judge. I walked without a limp when my ACL and MCL were torn a couple years back after the initial healing but it still hurt to go up and down stairs for almost a year afterwards and to look at us, we’d look like we’re perfectly capable of using the stairs.
So go fuck yourself, OP.
And even now that i’m not injured, if I want to take the elevator up a flight of stairs (or down for that matter) it’s none of your damn business. It isn’t your personal elevator, is it? Because until then just STFU. And if anyone says anything to my mom or even so much as snickers at her when she gets on the elevator and presses the floor below her I’ll punch them in the face.
NO ONE disses PK’s mom. NO ONE.
Lets say this person has no problem walking up two floors worth of stairs at all, no bad knees, no pain from injuries, nothing…
…this bitch would still be stupid.
Sure you should judge OP, judge away! No one cares if you judge people silently in elevators. But there’s a reason you’re writing this in an anonymous bitch online and not actually telling this person to take their ass up the stairs in person. The reason is that you’re wrong to be pissed off by this, and you know it.
If you were in the right, you’d be completely justified in saying this to their face, right? So go ahead OP. I dare you to tell them without feeling like a huge douche.
so 2nd floor should take the stairs… cause it’s only 18 steps.
What about 3rd floor? it’s only 18 more steps…
what about 4th floor?…
where does it stop?
and who decides? surely not you….
… I think that’s the difference with an annoyance. If I were in this situation would I ever say anything to the person, ABSOLUTELY NOT, because they are withinin the right to take the elevator to the 2nd floor whenever they wish. Say this person is perfectly healthy, taking the elevator to the 2nd floor every blessed day is kind of ridiculous, but like it’s stated who knows what medical condition they have.
It’s kind of a *shrug* post.
There’s being upset about a behaviour and feeling annoyed by it and then voicing one’s opinion. Voicing it would be stupid, but having the thought I dare say is not.
jesus christ if I let this kind of shit get to me I’d be submitting 100 bitches a day.
I’m on the 3rd floor of my office and I take the elevator most of the time. Why would someone take the stairs when there’s an elevator right there? To please you? A stranger? This bitch disgusts me.
First off OP, use a stronger deodorant if 144 steps makes you sweat. Second, you don’t have to get on the elevator with this guy. Third, if it bugs you that much, try talking to the guy and maybe his reason will come up in casual conversation.
Totally agree, tommyjules, to actually get ANGRY about someone getting off on the 2nd floor sounds like the wail of a big friggin’ infant.
your comment reminds me of this ad pdg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFeN2J_EKQs
An annoyance is one thing Donk, but the OP says that this makes them angry, “You press 2 and I get angry.”
Overreaction?
I actually don’t think it’s ridiculous for people to take the elevator to the 2nd floor everyday, not in 2011 where stairs big buildings are just there in case of a fire or if the elevator breaks down. Why does it matter enough to make someone angry? It’s going to delay your trip to the 9th floor by all of 5 seconds.
http://dicknballs.files.wordpress.com/2010…
I go back to my previous post Snoop … meh.
That’s how I feel about it *shrug* and meh. I understand the frustration somewhat but where the person is within the right to do so, it is what it is.
Some buildings have weird security measures and the stairwell doors are locked. I used to work in such a building and decided that I’d start walking up the stairs to the 13th floor every day to get a little exercise. Wasn’t too impressed when I got up there, found the door locked and had to walk all the way back down and take the elevator up.
to OP,
F*ck you. I’m young and virile too, work in a tower, and would readily take the lift even for a couple of floors. Why? My legs are sore pretty much all the time from training heavy squatting (for olympic weightlifting). Taking the stairs multiple times a day would mess with my recovery. I don’t consider myself lazy.
Taking eight flights to get to the ninth floor? That confused me at first but it doesn’t take much. I don’t know, walk up to the second floor and take the elevator to the ninth if it bugs you that much OP. You won’t be so sweaty.
Jennier, I don’t know why they lock the exit doors from the outside (stairwell) in some buildings. I had always assumed it was because those floors were secure which doesn’t make sense if you can take the elevator there.
Anyway, I’m wasting way too much time on this bitch. The complaint not you Jennier.
if this is scotia square and you mean second floor from the mall level its actually a shitload of stairs to climb, i’m pretty young and athletic but i walked up them once and i’m never doing it again, its like 50 stairs somehow.
I vote you break their legs, then shove them under the elevator for the rats to chew on. Make sure you say “Enjoy the ride” when you push them. If they are fat, you might have trouble getting them to fit in the elevator shaft.
and the square winds like a mofo. back and forth and back and forth….
I’m getting dizzy just thinking about it.
I have a gimp leg.
I don’t actually have ‘problems’ going up stairs…funny but I do have problems going down stairs . weird ‘eh ?
Unless I’m tired you can barely notice my limp, but that OB in no way makes your use of the elevator somehow more important than someone elses IMO.
No that’s not weird, More-on. My mom has the same issue. I think it has to do with the weight distribution and the amount of downward pressure put on the leg. I found the same thing when I tore my ACL/MCL and got an infected ankle/foot from getting bus floor gunk in the gash on my ankle joint.
down is easier, but rougher on your joints… because you’re essentially going with all your weight down on one foot in a jolt (generally..). raising a foot to go upstairs, while more work, is less strenuous.
Didn’t I just say that?
Way to repeat what’s already been said.
“I think it has to do with the weight distribution …”
I was confirming.
like you haven’t repeated what people have said before…
hell there’s so few bitch categories, it’s going to keep coming up all the time anyways.
Anddd the baiting worked. Though, I expected something with a little more punch.
Yes, I’m making it my mission today to bait and pick on you today. It’s how I show I care. 😉
heh. heh.
I forgot to mention occasionally, when I put my foot down & my weight comes on it has collapsed …which sends me to the deck.
But seeing as when I got injured , they operated after whisking me right out of the emerge, & then I had to wait for several days to see if they could save my lower leg/foot, & it took 2 other surgeries I can’t really complain, I could have ended up with a ‘serious’ limp if one leg was a foot or more shorter than the other ~;)
Maybe you drive your comfy car to work and the person who takes the elevator 2 floors hoofs it to the office on foot, OP. You really never know…so shut the fuck up and mind your own goddamned business.
big deal o.p., it’s not like you own the elevator, or even have to pay a fare to ride it. be glad, hat is even is one there. and also have your health, it could change in a flash.
Yeah, that elevator must stop at the 2nd floor for all of 30 seconds, so stop and smell the flowers/coffee/etc.
Sounds like he is too lazy!!!!!!!
…and farts too mr. blue. in places where there are only escalators and they don’t work, i spaz out when i walk up them. moving sidewalks in airports are bizarre, i need to be walking when i get off
It’s a public elevator so STFU.
Sweat is like tasty gravy to these wolves PG, lol. I totally want to see those meat ponchos on Man vs. Food
Go fuck yourself OP. I am 26, 115 pounds and 5 8. No I dont look like I have joint problems, but I do. So go fuck off and take the stairs yourself. Asshole
Whatever. I often take the elevator up, and the stairs down.
Lazy? Yup. My choice, not your’s. Deal with it.
i’d like to see her chased by wolves pdg http://abbyhasissues.files.wordpress.com/2…
I think her toxic, chemical laced “sweat gravy” would repulse even these guys:
http://www.african-safari-pictures.com/ima…
And, because I just can’t resist:
http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/20…
RAWK!
Ahha, PG: I have a love-hate relationship with the moving sidewalks in airports. I was in Mtl last summer and I loved how I could walk on the moving sidewalks and it’d be like I was super walking (I have such a little stride, normally), but then when the sidewalk ended, I almost fell flat on my face. Twice — going up and coming back.
🙁
I work on the 3rd floor of an office tower and I would love to be able to walk up the stairs every day for the little extra calorie burn. But guess what? ALL of the doors from the stairwells to the 3rd floor are locked for security reasons. I can take the stairs down to the main level, but there’s just no way to go up.
If I ran the zoo I’ll tell you just what I’d do
I’d get rid of elevators and escalators, too.
I’d make folks use stairs and ladders and ropes.
They’d get big and strong – they wouldn’t be dopes.
I’d make people sweat. I’d make people work
And nobody nowhere would be able to shirk.
Folks would be fit and folks would be thin.
Their hearts would be healthy and fat would be “sin”.
But that’s not all I would do.
I’d get rid of muffins and cookies and cakes.
I’d get rid of sausages, bacon and steaks.
Folks would eat rice and fresh veggies, too.
Their bowels would work great and make lots of poo.
Yes that’s just what I’d do if I ran the zoo.
And I think things would simply be great
Don’t you?
~ Gerald McGrew
Whats the point of the bitch section if you can’t vent without people accusing you of being a whiny baby?I’m just sayin….
La belle poesie Gerald, and what Quebec riding did you just elected in?
That would be the riding next to Whoville, wouldn’t it? Sometimes visited by Thing One and Thing Two:P
I farted while scrolling down this thread.
You know, I’m a young person who seems healthy from the outside too but I was born with a birth defect which means that my right leg is twisted inwards. They fixed my ankle as a baby, but now as an adult my hip and knee are out of alignment. Taking the stairs places my feet in a strange place and often makes my knee collapse lending to my falling down the stairs – hence why I take elevators and escalators whenever possible.
Also my friend has rheumatoid arthritis. On the outside she looks like any other 22yr old, but what you don’t see is the daily pain she is in – she will always take the elevator.
anyone who wants to get rid of bacon and steak has some serious issues…
they’re so delicious!
how dare you… you bastard…
Mmm steak and bacon.
I lost 4lbs last week (!) so I’m treating myself to a sausage AND bacon breakfast sammich this morning. With mayo and a tomato. Balanced breakfast++ : egg, sausage, bacon (protein), cheese (milk), biscuit (grains), tomato (veggies). Heh.
Just wait’ll The Cat In The Hat gets 20 years “Redemptive Labour” for Counter-revolutionary activities.
And I don’t want to be around when they start re-writing history….
http://twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploa…
“mayo and a tomato” … Sins!
Tomato, blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Congrats PK, here’s a special bouquet, just for you 😉
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_may2011/Bak…
And from Ivan, a bacon Kalashnikov, or BA-K-47 if you prefer ….
http://www.tifr.us/storage/post-images/gun…
PK you didn’t have any veg with that, you had fruit. Of course MM, our educated troll would know that (he has a piece of paper that says so) but without a JOB (such a bad word) he can’t buy one.
who puts a whole tomato on a sandwich?
geez, that’s a little overkill.
with second breakfast in me… I’m ready to get through this crap-fest they call monday.
OMG HUGO! Best bouquet of flowers I ever got! Nomnomnom. You know what would make those bacon flowers even BETTER? Sausage stems. nomnomnom
It was a small tomato, actually, zed. Worked out to three small-ish slices! 🙂 The little tomatoes are always the most flavourful.
Isn’t breakfast the best most wonderful meal of the day? Mmm! I have two breakfasts ever morning: corn flakes with half a banana and skim milk with some splenda before I leave home, and then usually a cheese scone with some red bacel when I get to work. Today, though, skipped the cornflakes and had that deliciousy goodness that is a tim’s breakkie sammich and I just finished the scone.
I could seriously live off of mcgriddles and sausage and bacon and hashbrowns for realz. My cholesterol and BP are too low and I’ve actually been told to eat more meat and salt to bring both up. ROFLZ.
Oh yeah, rub our fucking noses in it why doncha!. Bitch! j/k >; )
Crestor is a wonderful thing, my dear Ivan 😉
Splenda is the devil.
Oh I could just hug you till your little tongue turns black, PK. LOLz
I always knew there was no God, but this is twisting the knife just a little too much.
Anyway, I’m happy for ya.
Nah, splenda’s great. Tastes the most like sugar and you can eat it during pregnancy too (no Im not pregnant, I’m just sayin!).
HAHA I’m sorry, Ivan 🙁 If it makes you feel any better, I really have no pleasure in life anymore as the most pleasure I ever get is eating delicious greasy foods, and I basically live on rice, cornflakes, skim milk and scones with an apple or two thrown in there. Oh yeah, and I eat a lot of tuna too.
Trust me, my meals during the summits are special issue mini pig outs.
Oh how I long for a bag of dill pickle ruffles and a pint of dulce de leche hagen daas 🙁
Also:
http://www.tifr.us/storage/post-images/Van…
Cholesterol and BP too low? We’ll give you some of ours, we just need some graduate of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College to actually make it happen.
LOL my BP is running so low I have to go see the doc every two weeks to have it monitored :|
Wow. I think my blood pressure is more or less normal as no one’s ever said anything to me about it.
I can’t stand the taste! Me likes the plain ole muscovado. That might be a cultural thing though.
Meh.
You get used to it, donk! I started my adventures in artificial sweeteners with sugar twin and splenda was like a goddess after that shit. I used to hate diet pepsi too — it would make my throat all gross and tasted like ass, but now I love it and can’t stand the taste of regular pepsi 🙂
Truth be told, I am taking an ace inhibitor for my heart which is driving my BP down as a side effect, so it’s not like I’m lucky or anything 😛
Omggg artificial sweeteners are my fav <3. Fo rulz, I hate sugar and the horrible feeling it leaves in your mouth. I find non-diet drinks taste kind of watered down and not all that exciting.
Regular pop makes me feel very very bloated. It’s gross.
” I find non-diet drinks taste kind of watered down and not all that exciting.” … you have to be taking crack.
I don’t like white sugar. Brown has a better taste.
I really don’t know how you guys like that stuff. Ew. To each his own I guess … but I’m weary of the stuff.
I stay away from it too. I can’t stand the flavour of artificial sweetners, so it’s great that you can, PK if that’s what you have to have. I’m so thankful I don’t have to worry about it, so I go for the real stuff. Though I don’t drink pop, usually, unless it’s cut with some nice rum or whiskey. 😀
And I’m with ya Donk, I use brown as much as possible – or even better – sweeten with syrop whenever I can! Yummm… now THERE’S some delicious sugariness.
*maple syrop. <<
Non diet sodas, actually, are generally made with high fructose corn syrup, not white sugar (sucrose). That new drink “pepsi throwback” has actual sugar in it and not the corn syrup like it did back in the old times.
I bought a bottle a couple months ago just to see how it tasted and it tasted A LOT different than the current “pepsi.”
Last time I went to see my dietician, she gave me a sheet that had the safe amounts of artificial sweeteners/day and told me that the studies everyone’s all “OMG ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS ARE AWFUL AND CAUSE CANCER AND ALL THESE BAD THINGS” about are crap. Apparently they used lab rats and gave them the recommended max limit for a 250 pound man/day. So obv they were OD’d bigtime. And yes they did end up with cancers or whatever. But she said that the amount a human can reasonably consume in a day is perfectly safe because at those comparitive doses with the rats, they were just fine.
So, it just goes to show you that it really isn’t so much about the obvious result — it’s in the analyzation of the result and methods used.
Also: artificial sweeteners, such as splenda, are like 1000x sweeter or something than sugar. that’s why a box of splenda is so light and a box of sugar the same size is so heavy — you don’t need as much of it to sweeten the same. It’s also why a can of regular pepsi will sink and a can of diet will float.
Grade 9 science lesson FTW!
Haha ralmn: I got used to it. It tasted like shit when I started having to use it. I hated it more than anyone on the planet (though it’s probably because I was upset and bitter and pissed off at the world and all ‘omgwhyme?’ at the time).
Both of you would get used to it eventually. Trust me! 🙂
You know what really frosts my cupcakes though? NO ONE CARRIES DIET ORANGE CRUSH IN NS ANYMORE. Freak sakes. It just disappeared one day 🙁
In BC you can get diet grape and diet orange and in quebec you can get diet orange and diet cream soda! But you can’t get any of that in NS anymore 🙁
Fuckers 🙁
i use splenda, but if there isn’t any i would rather use real sugar. they try to sneak that twin shit in sometimes and i can smell it before it hits my mouth
Who said anything about cancer … but since you bring it up. There are soooo many things out there that … we don’t really know the long term effects of, including such things as The Pill. So if this is one thing I can stay away from (mainly cause it tastes like shit, to me) then I’ll stay away.
… if you have to use it, you have to. There’s no choice. So … whatevs.
Yeah PK, one of the chain smoking old bats at my work likes to lecture me on the dangers of drinking diet things, such as getting cancer. The boss overheard and was like “Uhhh…. you smoke?” and she got soo defensive and thought it was soo rude of him to say that. It was funny. But yeah I’ve heard for artificial sweeteners to for sure cause cancer in a human, you have to drink like a large percentage of your body weight, like so much that I think you would throw up before you could drink it all. But then you could just inject yourself with it I suppose. AND ALSO PK I’ve seen diet orange crush like everywhere… where are you looking? They have it at Sobeys, probably not at SS as they never seem to have good things like that there.
Gulf war symdome.
I didn’t read the whole article. But I remember years ago, reading that heat & aspartame don’t mix.
http://www.aspartamekills.com/mpvalley/ind…
that’s funny donkster, at the least, cancer came up before the holocaust