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cherylpf
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 Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:37 Post subject: elevator etiquette
So, my company has 2 floors in a large building downtown. So you're always riding the elevator with a bunch of randoms. What I don't get is the need to strike random conversation as we're coasting up umpteen flights, like some guy did today to a group he clearly did not know "So...how is everyone doing today?" our response  clearly most in the elevator had not had coffee yet... 
I have lots of elevator etiquette issues but this one struck me as funny today.
Anyone have a daily elevator commute?
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:40 Post subject:
0 and don't look at me in the elevator
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:42 Post subject:
I find myself a corner and whimper lightly.
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:45 Post subject:
I think it is appropriate to ask every person on the elevator with you where they went to school, what their political affiliation is, what they think of the death penalty, and if they have a neighbor like Crazy Mary. If they refuse to answer, put a hat made of cheese on their heads and insist that they do the crazy chicken dance. Is that proper elevator etiquette?
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:47 Post subject:
I'd have talked to him. I guess I don't have issues with talking to total strangers.
Some guy was talking to me in the locker room yesterday after he saw me running on the treadmill and I didn't have any problem with that. Heck, I'll even talk to other guys in the shower while we're all nekkid. 
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:49 Post subject:
I used to have the elevator thing going on everyday. I hated the people that would keep squeezing their friends in until the thing was packed and the buzzer would go off.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:51 Post subject:
Of course you could avoid the idle chatter and take the stairs.
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:51 Post subject:
We all sort of muttered "...uh..fine, thanks!" but it was so out of the blue, its like he broke 'the code'. Very funny. Another part of the code apparently is that no man can get off the elevator before a woman. So, if I'm in the back corner of an elevator crammed with 18 guys and we reach the ground floor, they'll all press themselves against the wall to let me out first before exiting behind me. Nice gesture and all, but really, it wouldn't it be easier on all of us if you just got out in the order you got in...elevators are very funny.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:52 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | I used to have the elevator thing going on everyday. I hated the people that would keep squeezing their friends in until the thing was packed and the buzzer would go off. |
That's a daily battle here. Every day at five I say a little prayer I'm not on an elevator thats going to get stuck because we'd all surely suffocate in about 10 minutes if it did...its like a clown car...
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:53 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Of course you could avoid the idle chatter and take the stairs. |
29 flights? um, I'll chat, thanks.
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akern
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:55 Post subject:
I've always wanted to say : "Aren't you glad you use Dial?" On a crowded elevator.
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:55 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | Of course you could avoid the idle chatter and take the stairs. |
29 flights? um, I'll chat, thanks. |
wuss! 29 floors in heels and a skirt; no problem!
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:58 Post subject:
Does anyone face the back of the elevator when they get in? To look at people, not the numbers changing as it goes up/down?
Had a TA in college that wrote a paper about that.
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:58 Post subject:
Ever been in a elevator that's polished steel or mirrors on all sides?! I regularily visit a building with one like that. Busy elevators too, so there's hardly any way to not appear you're staring at someone.
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Posted: 07/17/03 - 16:58 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | Of course you could avoid the idle chatter and take the stairs. |
29 flights? um, I'll chat, thanks. |
wuss! 29 floors in heels and a skirt; no problem! |
Do I smell a challenge? PH, stairwell! 5pm! Bring your heels!
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