The magic elevator

[Anakah]

I was coming into work, not in uniform or on the clock. I just finished parking my car and was already a bit annoyed because I got stuck behind one of those slow cars who are looking for parking spots where there would never be any.

Anyway, it takes forever for the elevators to come so I saw a man waiting and I heard the ding, so I ran for it. He held it for me.

The elevator went down one floor and then just stopped...

We both stared at the number for a min.

Me: Um... Did you press the #1 button?

Guy: NO. You shouldn't have to! These things are automatic! It must be a malfunction!

Me: No, sir they're not.

I pressed one because if I waited any longer I would've been late.

I was trying not to right there.

I thought about it later and figured maybe he's just really old and senile or something. I've never gotten into an elevator that "knew" where I wanted to go...

[BookstoreEscapee]

Unless there are only 2 floors in the building, how exactly would that work? And there are only 2 floors in my building and you still have to press the button on the elevator.

[marlovino]

Unless there are only 2 floors in the building, how exactly would that work? And there are only 2 floors in my building and you still have to press the button on the elevator.

Where I work we have an elevator as well (its also a two story building). I always say when I am in the elevator with someone that, "They should just put one button on the panel that says 'other floor' on it."

[BookstoreEscapee]

Where I work we have an elevator as well (its also a two story building). I always say when I am in the elevator with someone that, "They should just put one button on the panel that says 'other floor' on it."

Hehe, we have "1" and "MZ" for mezzanine. My building is actually a warehouse; there's a front office area which has 2 floors, and my office is on the far end of the warehouse which is the Receiving end, which has a "mezzanine" as they call it, not really a second floor (it only extends maybe 1/4 of the way across the width of the warehouse). But there is an elevator (with padded walls) for people and smaller freight-type stuff (and I once saw someone ride one of the adult-size tricycles we have off of it) and there's a larger freight elevator for pallets and larger machinery stuff which people are not allowed to ride on (it's just a metal platform enclosed in a cage).

[Anakah]

There are six floors. We were in the parking garage. I was on the fifth wanting to go to one.

[Sliceanddice]

Ive been in some elevators that just run on a cycle (I.E. you get in it and you go up, and down and up and down and up....) and you have to press the button for it to actually open on a floor (oh and the cycles have off times...) he must have thought it was one of those... Those things are fun when you wanna relax and freak people out, No expects to get on an elevator to find a girl reading in the corner and tell them they justwanted to enjoy the ride.

[Aressel]

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I've never gotten into an elevator that "knew" where I wanted to go...

Seeing as nobody else has made a Hitchhiker's Guide reference yet... Maybe we can have telepathic elevators once somebody invents an infinite improbability drive.

[protege]

Maybe we can have telepathic elevators once somebody invents an infinite improbability drive.

As long as I get a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster out of the deal...

[Sandman]

As long as I get a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster out of the deal...

And a gift cert. for the restaurant at the end of the universe

[Ms. Pounce]

And a gift cert. for the restaurant at the end of the universe

Last time I had a fortune cookie my fortune was, "Don't Panic."

[JustADude]

And a gift cert. for the restaurant at the end of the universe

Well here's . Just stick it in a savings account and it'll be all payed up by the time you get there!

[protege]

Well here's . Just stick it in a savings account and it'll be all payed up by the time you get there!

What's the interest rate on that account, 6% or 9% and does it take 42 years to double your cash?

[jnd4rusty]

My university had to change its classes from the education building at Ellsworth AFB to another( well several other locations which is another story in itself) building. Anyways this building is set up so crazy that the elevator was two sided and when you got on the buttons were 1, 1S, 2N, 2S. I always became confused trying to remember if I needed 2S or 2N.

[Rahmota]

I'm actually hoping for the star trek voice activated ones. Somehow I get the feeling that if the telepathic elevator tried to read my mind the elevator would either wind up cowering in the basement or we would wind up going sideways.

[cinema guy]

I'm actually hoping for the star trek voice activated ones.

I always wanted to say. "Up yoor shaft," in a fake scottish accent.