Originally Posted by
DutchessPDX
I had the elevator barger before. I usually just stand in the middle of the doorway and say something to the effect of "It's traditional to let people off the elevator before trying to enter."
In Asia (
excluding Japan), you would have to have repeat this pretty much every single time when leaving the lift. And nobody would care.
Originally Posted by
DragonSoul
Welcome to any day in Hong Kong.
#1 : After having been shoved back in to the lift,
In KL hotel lift was really small, enough to say 5 people max, and doors are so narrow that you have to enter/exit one by one. So I and my wife are in the lift and door opens. On other side there is a family of five, with their teen/collage age son. The guy rushes in as soon as door has opened not allowing us exit. I politely say 'can we get out please?'. He ignores me and tries to push thru. Now I put my palm on his chest, saying 'LET. US. GET. OUT" and pushed him back with sufficient force so he had to make 3-4 steps back into corridor. On exit looking at his shocked parents my wife told them 'Thanks for rising your children with excellent manners' and we left. Expression on their faces were priceless.
BTW I quickly found out that this - threat or intention to use force will make wonders in Asia. Otherwise you will be just run over.