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October 17, 2006
Going down?
Christy and I went to lovely Cleveland for the wedding of our friends Mike and Katie (congrats you crazy kids!) and we stayed at a cool hotel in downtown Cleveland.
Sunday morning rolled around, and it was time to check out. As we stumbled out of our room in a post-reception stupor, I pressed the down button at the bank of elevators, the button lit up, and we waited for the said elevator to arrive. As we waited, another couple approached and waited for the elevator.
Then, the woman did a thing that always irritates me: she pressed the down button again. Needless to say, it did not make the button light up a second time or brighter or anything like that. I don't know why people do this.
I'm pretty sure I do it sometimes too. But as far as I know, pressing that button again doesn't make the elevator come any faster, or any more urgently. There's no little man who monitors the elevators and notices when the button on one floor gets pressed a bunch of times.
So why do it? Do we think the person before us is an imbecile who can't press elevator buttons? Did the button light up without being pressed in an attempt to fake us out? I don't get it, and I probably never will. To be honest, when I am waiting for the elevator and someone presses the button after I've already clearly pressed it, I take it as a personal affront. If there's a reason other than assuming I don't know how to properly summon an elevator, I'd like to hear it.
Posted by oz115 at October 17, 2006 09:55 PM