Quote Originally Posted by ZipZop View Post
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!!!