Things you can do in elevator?

You can pick your nose and touch all the buttons. Don't ask how I found this out, yeeeeeech

 

Nothing quite like love in an elevator: what with the livin' it up whilst goin' down, the lovin' it up 'til one hits the ground...ripping good fun.

Seriously, though- I have enjoyed it, and it is fun. But I also helped a friend craft an elevator pitch, which ended up with him getting hired by a studio (not, unfortunately, to make his movie, but still-- job's a job).

Things I found out by accident: avoid the post-lunch hour elevator rush in an office building if it has a Mexican place in the lobby. 'Nuff said.

 

Make up lyrics to the elevator music?

 

I have an elevator fantasy, but need to find the right person to push my buttons.

 

Speaking of the 1980's - I thought of Night Court quickly. The episode where Christine gives birth in the elevator.

 

I've been wondering, if babies have been born in elevators. They make big headlines entering this world in airplanes.

 

Mmm... after that White Castle thread? Things you can do in an elevator:

Max out the load limit with five Americans or nine Japanese.

/Red, White and Butter... these colors don't do cardio

 

I watched a documentary on tv about the elevators last night. It's so obvious, I hadn't even thought, that big cities could not function without elevators. Until elevators were invented, top floor apartments were of lowest value, because you had to walk all the way up.

In first private homes the (person) elevator was meant to take you elegantly from one floor to another, so the gentlemen would not have to sweat in stairs, low speed didn't matter.

How much can elevators be blamed for causing obesity?

 

They can't. I was just pointing out the state of the American Fatass based on elevator load limits.

 

Sounds accurate... To help fight the obesity and other joint problems caused by too little excercise, elevators should never take us to the right floor...

 

Some older buildings in Singapore only stop at every other floor.

 

We have that here too, but in really tall buildings where you load the odd-floor elevators on one level and the even-floor ones above.

 

i cant say that i've ever seen that. i bet it can be a pain in the ass trying to find wich one to be on.

 

I can still remember when the first elevator (or lift as we call them) was installed in our town. I can remember being so excited that one of those magic lifts you see on T.V. was being installed. We still don't have any of those moving steps, (escalators?). They always mesmerised me when on holiday. I'm not sure you could do very much in the elevators in town as they only go up one floor and some are those open type only for a wheelchair. I don't think I have ever used an elevator except when with someone like my granny who can't walk up or down stairs. I guess it's different when there are quite a few floors.

 

Anyone care to see what the shaft looks like? (The elevator shaft, you perverts!)



This is the view from the pit of an elevator shaft, looking up- my job grants me such unique views. (gotta take whatever perks I can)

 

The Hyatt in Atlanta has glass elevators. I rode to the top (well, the 20th floor-- the 21st and 22nd floors have restricted access) just for the hell of it. Twice, actually

I love riding freight elevators...the last one I rode on a semi-regular basis had automatic gates, but it was still fun. One of the things I used to LOVE to do was jumping when the elevator first started. It was definitely more fun when the elevator was on the way down, but I always did it on the way up, too (which usually made my mom nervous. She was afraid I was going to break the cables. C'mon, Mom, I was like, 80 pounds until 6th grade or so.)

 

Back in the day I had a roomie who got his hands on a biiiig chunk of hashish. He kept it in the elevator shaft (we lived on the 12th floor) and accessed it by forcing the doors open manually between floors. The elevator would stop and he would grab whatever he wanted for whatever reason he wanted it. I was in the elevator when he did it once. Surprised the heck out of me.

 

elevator etiquette is tricky. As much as I feel I am supposed to wait for the person rushing to get on the same elevator after I have already entered and pushed the button for my desired floor, I secretly wish the doors would close so I am not delayed. (not that I have any pressing appt's to get to..I guess I'm just impatient)