People! What the hell has happened to us? We used to be a species that longed for the thrill of exertion, chasing down Wooly Mammoths, swimming long, shark infested channels, and even fleeing entire police brigades in a single white bronco. Now we are nothing more than gelatinous blobs unable to move our fat carbon based asses out of a burning building.
Case in point, Lazy Elevator Abuser, the sloth-like jackass who uses the lift to transport his/her dump-truck one single floor. One floor! Are you serious? That’s like 25 mother fucking stairs, you won’t even burn a calorie, let alone break a sweat. What you will do however is screw over every other socially responsible human being trying to use the elevator as it was designed.
So the next time to think about hitting that number 2 button and prolonging our trip to the 56th floor. We want you to ask yourself, what is going to hurt more, actually using the legs that L. Ron Hubbard gave you, or being punched in the back of the head by a group of people trapped in a steel box?
The stairs are on your left.
(I’m not talking about great amount of floors as in a skyscraper but a low-rise building that has an elevator to comply with handicap laws.)
Pure laziness and I hate it. And no, they are not for fat and lazy or people who feel “tired” (boohoo) to use for 1-3 floors. They are for people in wheel chairs, crutches, some elderly and for hauling with dollies or other wheeled things. I always think about how much energy these people waste to make a huge heavy metal room move them around because of their laziness and I also think of how so many people are obese (usually the able person I’m watching using the elevator for one floor is, go figure) and then just get more annoyed.
It’s one of the things that greatly annoys me along with littering and bad driving. Littering has to be the worst in my book though.
JW I guess people should behave courteously like you by calling people “twats”.
I just wrote a super irritated blog about this today and one of my readers linked me to this article. I feel incredibly grateful to know that I’m not alone in my elevator rage. Bless you.
Dolorous Dave
Webmaster @ whatsyourpe.com
If i dont feel like walking up the the second of third floor (i’ll walk the one floor no matter what cause i dont want to be that guy), i’ll talk the elevator to the 4th or 5th and walk down the flight or 2. makes you look like less of an ass cause its unlikely to be seen and you dont look like the ass going 2 floors in a 30 floor building.
I’m just relieved I’m not the only one this severely pisses off. This happens so much in my school building. I’ll get super-sad about wasting the physicality of youth.
Hey..if i don’t wanna walk up a flight of stairs i’ll take the elevator. if it really bothers you if i go 1 floor instead of taking the stairs, how about you take the stairs to the second floor and i’ll meet you there with the elevator…doors wide open. then you can get in push “3″ and cry about it..peace
Really, who gives a fuck? Seriously, if that is your biggest problem in life you should thank Allah, god, Mohamed or the Flying Spaghetti monster. Get the fuck over it! Say it with me IT’S – AN – ELEVATOR!
The gym I used to go to had cardio stuff on the first floor and weights on 2nd floor. 2nd floor was accessible by both stairs and elevator. You’d have these folks who get on a treadmill and run for like 5 mins to warm up…and then take the elevator up one floor to get to the weights. Yeesh.
Abroad,
You are right, and that’s something that I had started to mention in my diatribe, which I ultimately chose not to post (see my previous message) — that yes, there truly are some people who have their reasons. No one’s condemning them, but the fact remains that there are hundreds of able-bodied lazy abusers out there both wasting electricity and missing a prime opportunity for a little exercise. Sorry to hear about your arthritis, and no, you should not explain anything to anyone.
I guess I should go back to explaining to every single effing person who sees me get in an elevator and go up one floor that I have arthritis. You can’t really tell because I’m young, don’t walk with a cane or crutches and don’t need a wheelchair, but sometimes stairs are a painful bitch so sometimes (oh, the shame of it) I take the elevator.
I didn’t realize that it was causing this much stress and anxiety for you.
I figured you all were busy minding your own damn business and it never occurred to me that it was so terribly annoying to stand quietly next to an extraneous person for 30 whole seconds.
This is just as bad as the jerks who get in the elevator before you can get out.
Oh. My. God. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate lazy elevator abusers. You get them all the time in university. When it’s not even 25 flights of stairs…more like 10.
I stare them down. One time, my friend even said, “wow, one floor huh?” and they looked down in embarrassment.
God, you’re a twat.
You really don’t know if the person standing there has a twisted ankle, arthritis, is feeling tired, feeling a bit ill, or whatever. And you presume to make catty comments?
Top of the “people who deserve it” list are those like you who don’t know how to behave courteously in public.
TBF if im hauling a bunch of bags and sh*t i will do this.
Closely related to the cretins who stand in lazy clumps together blocking passage on a down escalator.
A lot of buildings lock the doors between floors… I’m just sayin’.
I just got done writing a LONG comment on this one but deleted it because it sounded kind of stuck-up… So, suffice it to say that I agree 110% with you. Ooohh, these guys irritate me!!!!!!! Nuff said.
better yet are the fools who press the button for every single floor.