DYKWIA in the hotel elevator
#31
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: England - UK
Posts: 512
I don't insist on it, but I can understand that. Sometimes I'm not comfortable with announcing where I'm going to strangers. Could be the button is already lit. Maybe I'm going to an upper floor which requires a swipe of my key. Or maybe I change my mind in mid-flight if I don't like the company on the elevator (drunks, wild party...) and don't want to leave with them.
No offense intended, but I'll make my own way. Thank you.
No offense intended, but I'll make my own way. Thank you.
#32
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: MCI ** UA Plat, Marriott Lifetime Plat
Posts: 1,242
I see #1 .... EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. at the EWR airtrrain between P3 and Terminal C. Every time it stops, people are at the door waiting to get on, and block the way off. Every time I travel there, I have to say, "Excuse me..." to get enough room to get out at the terminal.
I've yet to see #2 fortunately, but I wouldn't hesitate to interrupt the conversation with a "Hey buddy.... on or off. You're holding up the show!"
I've yet to see #2 fortunately, but I wouldn't hesitate to interrupt the conversation with a "Hey buddy.... on or off. You're holding up the show!"
#33
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: United Kingdom
Programs: Bonvoy LTTitanium, BAEC Silver
Posts: 590
Another 'pleasant' experience I had recently involved sharing a hotel lift/elevator with a couple who insisted on kissing/snogging/making out about two feet away from me in what was obviously a very confined space. I was so close to saying 'Get a room' before realizing that they already did
#36
Join Date: Dec 2011
Programs: UA 1P
Posts: 545
Ha. This isn't really a DYKWIA elevator story so much, but it's a cautionary tale about elevator etiquette.
The health club I used to belong to had two elevators to the lobby, both of which were excruciatingly slow. So getting one during the morning rush was always a dicey proposition. One morning I lucked out and got one straightaway. Just as the doors were closing, I notice a guy rushing to make it inside, so I kindly held the door open for him and he made it on.
Just before the doors closed again, someone else rushed up and got on just in time. Then someone else. And someone else. This went on about a dozen more times - every time the doors were about to close someone else would rush up and wedge themselves on. In all, it was a good five minutes of false starts and abrupt stops before we finally, slowly, lurched our way downward.
At one point, I looked at the original guy I'd let on and said jokingly, "This is all your fault." He just laughed ruefully as yet another person wiggled her way in.
The health club I used to belong to had two elevators to the lobby, both of which were excruciatingly slow. So getting one during the morning rush was always a dicey proposition. One morning I lucked out and got one straightaway. Just as the doors were closing, I notice a guy rushing to make it inside, so I kindly held the door open for him and he made it on.
Just before the doors closed again, someone else rushed up and got on just in time. Then someone else. And someone else. This went on about a dozen more times - every time the doors were about to close someone else would rush up and wedge themselves on. In all, it was a good five minutes of false starts and abrupt stops before we finally, slowly, lurched our way downward.
At one point, I looked at the original guy I'd let on and said jokingly, "This is all your fault." He just laughed ruefully as yet another person wiggled her way in.
#37
Join Date: Dec 2009
Programs: AA LT-PLAT 6MIL
Posts: 10
I used to be very annoyed about #1 but realized that the people who did it were likely from very busy cities where agression is necessary for survival (i e. not pushing in means missing the train/elevator and therefore being late for work). I am not saying it is OK, but I see how this behavior can develop in a person and become "normal" even when not necessary. As for #3 , there is just something about kids and elevators... they think it is all a fun game and even if the adults choose to discipline it is too late and the buttons can't be unpushed.
#39
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Here today gone tomorrow
Programs: *G, ow Saph
Posts: 2,865
As for #3 , there is just something about kids and elevators... they think it is all a fun game and even if the adults choose to discipline it is too late and the buttons can't be unpushed.
Great for fat fingers, but LOTS of other uses I can imagine (how about quietly cancelling the floor for that DYKWIA and letting him head all the way up to 37th floor instead of getting off at 6 like he intended?)
#40
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: United Kingdom
Programs: Bonvoy LTTitanium, BAEC Silver
Posts: 590
My favorite undiscovered feature of certain elevators is that buttons CAN be unpushed! Push them twice in quick succession and it will cancel the floor.
Great for fat fingers, but LOTS of other uses I can imagine (how about quietly cancelling the floor for that DYKWIA and letting him head all the way up to 37th floor instead of getting off at 6 like he intended?)
Great for fat fingers, but LOTS of other uses I can imagine (how about quietly cancelling the floor for that DYKWIA and letting him head all the way up to 37th floor instead of getting off at 6 like he intended?)
#41
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: UA 1K, Marriott Gold, SPG Gold
Posts: 139
Wow, it would have been so tempting to push the button for the next floor and then hit the rest of the buttons on exiting.
#42
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: ELP
Programs: AAdvantage, Amex MR
Posts: 2,308
The only behavior I have encountered on an elevator that really bugs me is people who get off the elevator, take only a couple of steps and then stop to get their bearings or have a conversation with someone thus putting up a roadblock for anyone else entering or exiting.
Related note to that two things I cannot stand are people who stop at choke points to have a conversation with someone, check their phone, or get their bearings. At work often enough I will see people stop right in front of doors to have conversations thus blocking entry or exit from the room. Of course we all know the people in airports or malls who stop right at the top of the escalator to get their bearings instead of stepping aside first. Also I can't stand hallway blockers. Those groups of people who will walk side by side blocking the sidewalk or hallway. Its annoying enough the overly affectionate couple holding hands side by side on a narrow sidewalk, but it gets into the rediculous territory when a large family will block a large hallway walking side by side.
Related note to that two things I cannot stand are people who stop at choke points to have a conversation with someone, check their phone, or get their bearings. At work often enough I will see people stop right in front of doors to have conversations thus blocking entry or exit from the room. Of course we all know the people in airports or malls who stop right at the top of the escalator to get their bearings instead of stepping aside first. Also I can't stand hallway blockers. Those groups of people who will walk side by side blocking the sidewalk or hallway. Its annoying enough the overly affectionate couple holding hands side by side on a narrow sidewalk, but it gets into the rediculous territory when a large family will block a large hallway walking side by side.
#43
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Chicago
Programs: UA GS 1MM, CM PP
Posts: 688
#1 is pretty common in many emerging markets e.g. in many second-tier Chinese and Indian cities
#45
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 19
I've started a version of this where I don't move out of the way if someone is heading directly toward me but their head is buried in their phone. If we crash, oh well. If they drop their phone, oh well. If they yell at me, I say "you should be thanking me. I could have been a lamp post or a wall or a crosswalk and you would've walked straight into it. Look where you're walking."