elevator etiquette - Page 2

Do you know if he was going more floors from the main floor than you? I.e if you were going down 1, was he going up 2+? If so then it may of gone down to be more efficient, even though it was told to go up first.

Although I sometimes am annoyed when people take the elevator for one floor, what really bothers me is when they feel the need to explain. I don't care to hear why they're not taking the stairs and I definitely don't need an apology.

I thought most elevators responded to calls in the order received, so I would have expected it to go up before going down. Shows what I know.

It is refreshing sometimes to step into an elevator and remain facing the back wall, back to the door.

I'm gonna hijack this thread a bit and (please indulge me a moment) beg the case for taking the stairs. Because office workers have such a sedentary life, quite often it is the only exercise available to them, as little as it is. Time constraints, life style issues, or monetary constraints quashes any hope of belonging to a gym. The dangerous trend of obesity in our society is so severe that now 10 year olds are developing adult onset diabetes as more and more schools omit physical education classes. As you get older, maintaining the proper weight and one's health becomes the single most difficult project in one's life. It's such a little thing, but it's the continuation of a healthy activity that will pay dividends in the future. You may say it is too minor, I insist that it is the maintenance of a life style that is important. As one grows older life style change is incremental and not noticeable until it is often too late. Pushing 58 now, I fight with weight, trying to shed and keep off 30 lbs is the most difficult thing to do. Though I may not run up a flight of stairs, I will walk up a flight or two! OK, I'm off the fatherly advice soapbox now. Please resume your banter. Thank you.

It's a nice thought, but many offices (like mine) do not have stairs that are usable for this purpose, only fire stairs that do not allow re-entry on a different floor and, as often as not, set off an alarm when you enter the staircase.

True dat. What gets me is when there is a usable/internal staircase, and the layabouts insist on taking the elevator to go down or up one floor. When someone points out that there is a working staircase, they inevitably respond: "Yeah, but the elevator drops me off closer to where I want to go".

I worked in a building with dank piss stairs. Pretty sure a homeless guy made his home there.

Better than a dank piss elevator.....

Listen, its their funeral, literary. Lack of exercises kills. I've been reading about Michelangelo and he used to walk from Florence to Settignano to Carrara and back. The only time he would take a cart was to carry marble. Not walking another 15 feet because the elevator is closer is ridiculous.

Jon.

I hate elevators, no air flow, people odor that makes you gag. If your not in danger of a heart attack, take the stairs.