Private elevator

[Festival_Worker]

I live on the 8th floor of my building, so I usually take the elevator to get up or down. This morning though, the elevator apparently didn't work. Normally you can hear it moving in the shaft, but now nothing happened after I called it. It's not that big of a deal, I took the stairs down and a couple of floors down I pass a pregnant women, waiting for the elevator as well. She gave up and took to the stairs. When I got to the ground level, there was a couple of people chatting and ... one of them was holding open the elevator door so that it couldn't leave the ground floor.

[mikoyan29]

I live on the 8th floor of my building, so I usually take the elevator to get up or down. This morning though, the elevator apparently didn't work. Normally you can hear it moving in the shaft, but now nothing happened after I called it. It's not that big of a deal, I took the stairs down and a couple of floors down I pass a pregnant women, waiting for the elevator as well. She gave up and took to the stairs. When I got to the ground level, there was a couple of people chatting and ... one of them was holding open the elevator door so that it couldn't leave the ground floor.

Nothing like inconveniencing others so that you yourself aren't inconvenienced even though it is very likely the elevator will be back by the time they finish thier conversation. My favorite is the people that have to have their conversation right inside the entrance and generally in such a way that you can't get around them.

[blas]

That annoys me anywhere and everywhere. Can't you sit down somewhere or find somewhere better to talk?

[Imprl59]

Nothing like inconveniencing others so that you yourself aren't inconvenienced even though it is very likely the elevator will be back by the time they finish thier conversation. My favorite is the people that have to have their conversation right inside the entrance and generally in such a way that you can't get around them.

I have been known to accidentally run those people over with my buggy. Complete by accident of course. Wouldnt think of doing it on purpose

[It's me]

When I got to the ground level, there was a couple of people chatting and ... one of them was holding open the elevator door so that it couldn't leave the ground floor.

I would have gotten on the elevator and gone back up a floor or two......

[MoonCat]

There should be a special stick to hit them with. A Nerf bat. Something.

[Magpie]

I'd have let them know that that should be careful not to hold the elevator door open, because it means no one else can use it. Because they didn't know this a heavily pregnant woman was having to walk down the stairs.

If they're going to act like complete idiots I will assume that is the case.

[dalesys]

I would have gotten on the elevator and gone back up a floor or two......

...got out after sending the elevator to the top...


To collect anyone else who was still waiting, of course!

[smileyeagle1021]

Nothing like inconveniencing others so that you yourself aren't inconvenienced even though it is very likely the elevator will be back by the time they finish thier conversation.

Or even continue the conversation in the elevator...

that is what I liked about the dorms, after a certain amount of time the elevator lets out an alarm sound and will start closing with just enough force that it won't cause injury but enough to get the point across (I assume that the doors would open again if the person did not clear out by the time they reach a certain point as a safety against getting anyone who legitimately can't clear the door getting stuck)

[Pagan]

My favorite is the people that have to have their conversation right inside the entrance and generally in such a way that you can't get around them.

I've been threatening for years to get a federal grant to study this phenomenon and its cousins. The people that stop upon entering the doors and the people that stop just after getting off and escalator.

[Sparky]

Had you confronted those people they would have gotten pissy and insisted that they'd only been talking "just a minute." People like this lose all concept of time while holding up the world.

[PepperElf]

Nothing like inconveniencing others so that you yourself aren't inconvenienced even though it is very likely the elevator will be back by the time they finish thier conversation. My favorite is the people that have to have their conversation right inside the entrance and generally in such a way that you can't get around them.

OMG. I SOOOO hated that when i was in the navy.
people would use the passage way for official conversations on stuff and expect everyone else to just 'deal with it'.

which sucked even more if you had the job of cleaning that passageway while they yapped.*

i figure - it's a passageway, NOT an office.


* side note, my solution was to play music while i cleaned. the chatters found that my music meant their favorite hall-chat-lounge wasn't conducive to yapping. eventually they banned me from being assigned there for cleaning

[Bramble]

My favorite is the people that have to have their conversation right inside the entrance and generally in such a way that you can't get around them.

Meh I get that in stores all the time. If they ignore me after I politely say excuses me *whumph* obstruction goes away. Lightly of course ^_^

[Midorikawa]

See, people like that, I treat like a dog. I give my dog a command to move once, then walk through him. He's learned if he doesn't want me to knee him out of the way, he needs to move when I tell him to. People sometimes need the same treatment. I walk through the middle of the group if they're being annoying and stopping in the middle of a pathway, walkway, or doorway.

[Hyndis]

Or even continue the conversation in the elevator...

that is what I liked about the dorms, after a certain amount of time the elevator lets out an alarm sound and will start closing with just enough force that it won't cause injury but enough to get the point across (I assume that the doors would open again if the person did not clear out by the time they reach a certain point as a safety against getting anyone who legitimately can't clear the door getting stuck)

I thought all elevators did this.

In my experience if you keep the doors of an elevator open for too long, generally if its open for a full minute, it will make the most aggravatingly loud, jarring noise. And its of course repeatedly trying to close the whole time. Anything in the way trips the sensor and forces the doors apart, but the buzzing sound it makes is enough to instantly end any conversation.