Thread: Pet Peeves?

Originally Posted by Gasman

Really smart folks at your work. Ha. Maybe you should warn then. Some people are just to stupid to help. Ok, im done now. Sorry for the rant.

Or keep quite and see if the situatiuon resolves itself

A dwindling pet peeve for me, but it used to really bother me.

People that want to get ON the elevator before you get OFF the elevator. As an example; You get on an elevator at ground level, you are heading to the 3rd floor with the elevator going UP. You get to the third floor and 5 people on the 3rd floor going up insist on getting ON before you can get OFF. That never made any sense to me. It must be because they think the doors are going to close before they can get on, so they rush the elevator before letting anyone get off first. But if you let me off folks, you will actually have more room to get on.

Lately I have noticed this trend getting better with folks waiting to get on after departing elevator riders get off. Especially in Canada. Stayed on the 10th floor of a downtown Toronto Hotel recently and the 4th floor at a hotel in Montreal, and Canadians surely understand that it is easier to let people get off of an elevator before you get on.

-Zip

Originally Posted by ZipZop

A dwindling pet peeve for me, but it used to really bother me.

People that want to get ON the elevator before you get OFF the elevator. As an example; You get on an elevator at ground level, you are heading to the 3rd floor with the elevator going UP. You get to the third floor and 5 people on the 3rd floor going up insist on getting ON before you can get OFF. That never made any sense to me. It must be because they think the doors are going to close before they can get on, so they rush the elevator before letting anyone get off first. But if you let me off folks, you will actually have more room to get on.

Lately I have noticed this trend getting better with folks waiting to get on after departing elevator riders get off. Especially in Canada. Stayed on the 10th floor of a downtown Toronto Hotel recently and the 4th floor at a hotel in Montreal, and Canadians surely understand that it is easier to let people get off of an elevator before you get on.

-Zip

It must be really bad other places then....as this one causes me to go totally physics....you WAIT until people get off the elevator or off the subway before you barge in.

To me, I file this under, "Common Knowledge"; hence, that's the way I act, so if I barrel into you whilst leaving and you get knocked aside, I'll await the apology...LOL. If I get 'tude, I simply say you're supposed to wait until the peeps get off, really? Glad I could clear that up for you!

Drives me nuts, along with the cellphone chatters in the left lane, speeding up, slowing down, drift over to this side, then over to that...then the "deer in the headlights" look when they jump because you've blasted them out of the reverie with the horn!!!

Put on some Vegetal, when that door opens, nobody is coming in.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Put on some Vegetal, when that door opens, nobody is coming in.

Won't work, I smell like old urine most of the time anyhow.....

The L C B O.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Won't work, I smell like old urine most of the time anyhow.....

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Originally Posted by Phrank

It must be really bad other places then....as this one causes me to go totally physics....you WAIT until people get off the elevator or off the subway before you barge in.

To me, I file this under, "Common Knowledge"; hence, that's the way I act, so if I barrel into you whilst leaving and you get knocked aside, I'll await the apology...LOL. If I get 'tude, I simply say you're supposed to wait until the peeps get off, really? Glad I could clear that up for you!

Drives me nuts, along with the cellphone chatters in the left lane, speeding up, slowing down, drift over to this side, then over to that...then the "deer in the headlights" look when they jump because you've blasted them out of the reverie with the horn!!!

I understand completely.

I've been giving this elevator issue thought. I think some of it may be due to the fact that folks getting on the elevator just assume EVERYONE is going where THEY are going. Truly. Because, after all, it is their world and we are just ghosts walking through it, yes?

So, for example, you get on an elevator in the lobby and are heading up to the 8th. The elevator stops at 8 and there happens to be peeps on the 8th going to the 20th. They rush the elevator when the doors open without giving it a second thought, because, why would anyone get off on their floor? They are leaving the floor not staying. Isn't EVERYONE going to the 20th floor like THEY are?

As I said, this trend has gotten much better in my travels, especially in Canada. However, it still happens. 25 years ago in New York City or Los Angeles or any high-rise city in America it was horrific. This issue has much improved in my travels in the last few years. Maybe I have just been running into gents like me that have this pet peeve and we are all respecting the fact that it is simply easier and more considerate to let departing riders get off BEFORE you try and get on.

-Zip