Big building, 2 elevators, 8 floors (+basement). Combining offices, food retail, underground parking and classrooms.
Please, please, please walk if you are only going up one floor. If you have a bad ankle or lots to carry I do understand, however when laziness makes me wait for the 2nd or 3rd elevator it does make me (and everyone else) kinda bitchy. This also applies to going down. Bonus: the more that you walk, the easier it becomes.
Oh, and to the building owners: would you please fix the 2nd elevator? It’s been broken for 2 weeks. Thanks.
For more information please visit this website: http://www.elevatorrules.com/
—7th floor has lots of stairs
This article appears in May 21-27, 2009.
Obviously you aren’t taking advantage of the classrooms. “Ediquette”?
um, only 8 floors, why not take some of your own advice?
Hey, I work on a 7th floor – I’m 54 years old and not afraid to give the old ticker some hearty pump thumps. Listen, OP, you could have 1 two person elevator in a 3,209 story complex and there will always be someone who will use the elevator for one floor. Either suck it up, use the stairs or increase your effexor dosage.
This makes the other people in the elevator bitchy? I can assure you OP, the only person who gives a shit about this “problem” is you. What you need is a joint.
The only reason people should take elevators:
-In a wheelchair or crutches
-Carrying something very awkward or heavy
-Medical condition
-has small children with a stroller
-are drunk and should not risk falling up the stairs or down them
-are going way way up to a high floor.
Also going down is a lot easier than going up so lazy people can just start with walking down your 5 flights if going up 5 flights leaves you winded.
If there’s an elevator there, I’ll take it if I damn well want to and fuck the NAZIs who think they should tell people what they can and cannot do. The only rule there should be for the use of an elevator is wait for people to get off before you get on. Other than that, anyone doesn’t like people using them can fuck off.
LadyS, fuck off. No one gives a shit about who you deem worthy to use public elevators. This bitch is stupid, it’s worse than the wheelchair button ones, and that’s saying something.
OP, if you meant the ‘please, please’ and are only seeking to change minds…fine.
Just don’t start trying to bully people into your worldview. …always wrong.
When you own a building, you can prevent the elevator from accessing Floors 2 through 5 or whatever you like…and judging by the bitches on this site, I’m sure you would have some people wanting to be there. Until then, though, it’s probably best to just chill out.
There’s nothing you can do about this apart from bitchin’ to the building manager until he gets the other elevator fixed. It’s just human nature to take the easiest path, however; what really gets on my nerves sometimes are the people who stop every time they get on an escalator, and block it so I can’t walk by.
…right on, Murder Junkie.
I could not care less about open-button doors…Go nuts. I’ll even press the button sometimes…if someone is coming behind me.
I don’t care about elevators much. If you want to go up one floor, yes you are making other people’s trip longer (probably your own, too), but I understand the drive toward the ‘easiest path’, as Murder Junkie points out.
…but when it comes to people who treat escalators as rides, the LEAST they can do is leave a passing lane. If someone is walking up behind you, take the hint and STAND ASIDE!
What really bothers me is that there is no mention of the worst elevator offense: farting. Elevator farts consume more lives on a daily basis that heart disease and cancer worldwide.
Ahaha, that made my day.
We should all listen to Dr. Fever, after all he/she is a doctor!
Haha yeah I just assumed this bitch was going to be about farting from the title.
OP, could you be talking about the downtown business college across the street from Pete’s? I just finished there and yes, it’s annoying people take the elevator to the 2nd floor but you will never stop them. Just avoid the elevator all together and have peace of mind like I did. Seven floors every day may do you some good!
P.S. No matter how often they fix it one of the two elevators always seem to be broken…
Yup. Sure. I’m gonna climb a flight of stairs so you don’t get “kinda bitchy”. Pffft… you MUST have something better to bitch about a convenience installed FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.
“What you need is a joint.” HAHAHAHA fizz, that totally reminded me of Bill Hicks skit on making weed mandatory.
LOL@ ladys drunk comment
“what really gets on my nerves sometimes are the people who stop every time they get on an escalator, and block it so I can’t walk by.” I equally hate that murder junkie
DR. Fever : Holy shit that was fucking hilarious
Overall, I am cracking up hard core at some of the comment’s made on this bitch.
The elevator had to be installed to haul the vegans up 2 flights as they’re too knackered to climb the stairs because they graze and don’t eat meat……
lack of iron in the blood will do that, Senile… “knackered” LOL
I never tell people to use the stairs. I just think about how much better I feel about taking the stairs. And how others who might not get any physical activity would feel if they took the stairs a couple times a day. They are public elevators, but if people took the stairs we would all be a much healthier city! Stop being a lazy fat ass Fizz!
LOL I get up at five every morning to run, I’m in the best shape of my life and I’ll take the fucking elevator up one floor if I feel like it. Walking up a some stairs every day isn’t going to do shit for your fitness or your health, you need to sweat long and hard every day to stay in good shape and to stay healthy, not to mention eat right. But by all means continue to feel better about yourself and better than other people because you walk up stairs…because you know, walking up stairs is so noble of you.
“if people took the stairs we would all be a much healthier city!”
Are you KIDDING me? Yeah, uh, that’s definitely one of the top ten issues our city leaders are debating, LadyS.
I agree with fizz, you would have to RUN up fucking Fenwick every single day before it would make the slightest difference in your personal health let alone the health of an entire city.
Did I say any leaders were debating about this subject. I don’t think so. But taking the stairs instead of an elevator won’t hinder your health. It will only help it. I though being healthy made people in better moods… I guess I was wrong…
Actually, the morbidly obese actually *do* sweat their asses off when they go up one flight of stairs…so walking one flight of stairs probably would be of benefit in that case.
However, in the spirit of minding one’s own business, who the eff cares who takes the elevator and where they take it to/from?
Damn, I knew someone who started eating healthy, exercising, losing weight, blahblah and was constipated as HELL the entire time due to the lack of fat in their diets. They were healthy, but not very happy.
Once they went back to eating crap, well the err, crap started flowing again.
They gained all their weight back but was happy as a pig in [heh] shit because they didn’t feel bunged up all the time.
As my mother always says: “the asshole rules the body!”
Here’s a thought:
I’ll gladly take the stairs up many floors in buildings where the staircase isn’t bleak, lifeless, miles from the front of the building, encased in fireproof doors, and wound so tight I would feel like I’m running a Dizzy Bat race.
Architects…are you listening??
HAHAHA Pretty Kitty your mom is awesome!
I’d argue that there’s a point when a morbidly obese person exercising could do more harm than good. Too much weight on your joints, too much strain on your heart, and too much pressure in your clogged arteries can seriously mess a person up, not to mention kill them. Enter sock puppets, stage right:
“But they chose to eat that shit!”
“Stop dogging on fat people some of them are big boned or have health problems!”
“Big boned my ass!”
“Of course they have health problems they’re fucking obese!”
“Blame the parents for shoving McNuggets down their gullets!”
“Blame men for having ridiculous expectations”
“No blame the media you feminist bitch!”
There, I just saved all of us time and energy. Now who here had high pitched voices narrating that in their head?
Nice, fizz 🙂
I’m with ya there Dogma….
they’re either pale or concrete grey and completely lifeless.
not to mention some are totally fucked up.
Scotia Square duke tower is even worse than cogswell tower,which I didn’t think was possible.
cogswell has the long coridoors upwards which I kinda like and appreciate now. Duke’s are 8 steps, turn 180, 8 steps, turn 180 , 8 steps, turn 180, 8 steps, turn 180, 8 steps, turn 180. It’s like 5 or 6 flights of stairs per couple stories. Seriously, I get dizzy from them. I think Dal’s O’brian hall has my pick for best stairs.
lol….leave stink bombs in the elevators.