Lift etiquette

[ComedyPilot]

Walk up one flight of stairs, then catch the lift on the way up. When the doors open, get in but - and here's the clincher - do NOT turn round to face the doors as normal. Stay facing the other lift occupants - freaks them out EVERY time.

 

[Archie_tect]

Do not as some students often did [because they thought it funny] press every lift call button on every floor as they got out... hilarious on the way up to the top floors in 1978 in Belmont Hall in Dundee.

 

[Cubist]

As you get into. lift, shout out mind the doors, press the button and smile at the the people left behind

My preferred line is an Arnold Scwarzenegger impression " I'll drive!" As I reach past whoever is nearest the buttons and press for the top floor.

 

[ufkacbln]

....or worse still releasing an otter.

Otter prays that it is never released in a lift

 

[Dan B]

[QUOTE 2946801, member: 1314"]That when the lift doors are closing you must not press the button to re-open them to gain entry. That is rude.[/quote]

This is silly. If you are in the lift and the door is closing, you must hold the 'door open' button for the person arriving. Obviously not if they're still 100 metres off, but if they can get close enough to press the 'call' button before you move off, you're definitely in breach of protocol

 

[Sara_H]

[QUOTE 2946801, member: 1314"]We have 3 lifts in our building. The protocol is:

That when the lift doors are closing you must not press the button to re-open them to gain entry. That is rude.

You must not enter a lift with a worker from a different company. That is rude.

You must not talk. That is rude.

This morning I parked my bike in the basement then walked to reception, got in the lift. A bloke then broke all 3 cardinal rules of lift etiquette. I studiously gave him the blank.[/quote]
Lifts are for peole who's legs don't work. Walk up the stairs you lazy bugger!

 

[ColinJ]

How does that work if you are going down 11 floors ? Take the lift down 1 floor then run down the rest ?

I was thinking more in terms of 15-20 floors. If I were going down 11 I would either run down 11, or if I bothered to use the lift at all, descend about 5 and then run 6. TBH, it isn't much effort going down stairs so I would use them unless I were carrying something big and/or heavy.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Some years back I was on crutches and regularly used the passenger lift at London Bridge tube. Its a bit out of the way and rather slow. One time I was in the lift with a lady and a small boy, about four years old. Silence. Suddenly the boy shouted "I'M HAPPY NOW!".

Made me titter uncontrollably.

 

[ColinJ]

I don't think there are many paternoster lifts left now because of safety and disabled access issues, but it used to be fun to 'go over the top' in one and do a handstand for the descent!

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2948270, member: 1314"]I lived in Belmont Hall for a year. I was in the annex bit which had no lifts.[/quote]
Ah the 2 storey bit on stilts so that the wind could funnel through underneath... spent many happy times in Belmont but never actually lived there!

 

[Sara_H]

I don't think there are many paternoster lifts left now because of safety and disabled access issues, but it used to be fun to 'go over the top' in one and do a handstand for the descent!

We've got a paternoster in Sunny Sheffield, I'm too scared to go in it though.

 

[Mr Celine]

If you are going up more than 5 floors, get out 5 floors lower and run up the last 5 flights of stairs.

Or wait till someone tall enough to reach button 6 gets in.

 

[Profpointy]

If the building's more than a few floors, just as the lift door closes, the trick is to run up to the first floor as fast as you can, then press the lift button, then, providing you've beaten the lift to first floor, you have time to walk bristly to each subsequent floor pressing the button each time. You then get to your desk in good time to get a cuppa and await your bemused colleagues - this counts as "a win".

Obviously if you don't beat the lift to the first floor, then it's all needless, so you'll run up all the steps and arrive after the liftites, and thus "lose".

 

[ColinJ]

Obviously if you don't beat the lift to the first floor, then it's all needless, so you'll run up all the steps and arrive after the liftites, and thus "lose".

I managed to beat our works lift every time despite having to run up 8 flights of stairs to do it. My target was to be looking cool and chatting to the secretary next to the lift doors when my colleagues spilled out of the lift, with them having seen me pass the lift on the ground floor as the doors were closing ...

About 10 seconds after they walked past me, I'd start bucketing sweat and gasping for breath, but they'd be out of sight by then!

 

[Smurfy]

I managed to beat our works lift every time despite having to run up 8 flights of stairs to do it. My target was to be looking cool and chatting to the secretary next to the lift doors when my colleagues spilled out of the lift, with them having seen me pass the lift on the ground floor as the doors were closing ...

About 10 seconds after they walked past me, I'd start bucketing sweat and gasping for breath, but they'd be out of sight by then!

If you're feeling evil, push the call button on each floor as you pass.