To bemoan the lack of lift etiquette?

[Moulesfrites]

Just come back from a shopping trip with ds is push hair. Town was rammed and I must have spent over 20 mins in total either in lifts or waiting for them!

Why do people press all the buttons so the lift stops at every floor?

Why do people push in?

Why do people try to get in the lift before letting people out?

That is all.

[ThisIsANickname]

Because people suck.

[AFuckingKnackeredWoman]

People are wankers. FACT

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

And on the seventh day, God rested and thought 'now would be a good time to have a browse on Amazon'.... On-line shopping means never having to battle for a lift, sit in a car-park traffic-jam, elbow your way through queues.

Have a

[Towndon]

Why do people press all the buttons so the lift stops at every floor?
Because there's nothing else to do in a lift.

Why do people push in?
Because they're rude and selfish.

Why do people try to get in the lift before letting people out?
Because they're stupid.

[AnotherEmptyNest]

I haven't come across this except lifts at airports so that should tell us something about how people bring their own habits here.

In this country, we queue for most things. When a bus comes along, we wait for people to get off before we get on. It's the same with the underground railway. We let people come out of anywhere before we enter - makes sense becuse it means there'll be more room inside when some have come out!

Eventually, foreigners learn how we do things - because we tell them that 'there is a queue'. Waiting for a bus the other day, a teenager let me on in front of him although he was there first.

[northerngirl41]

One for you: Why must you take your child in a pushchair shopping on a Saturday, the busiest day of the week?


To answer your other questions:
Why do people press all the buttons so the lift stops at every floor? Because other people are as entitled as you to use the lifts.
Why do people push in? Because they are trying to get round the pushchair which is taking up 3 times the space of your daughter merely standing or being carried.
Why do people try to get in the lift before letting people out? Because they are trying to avoid being rammed in the ankles by your horrible pushchair.

YABU.

[AFuckingKnackeredWoman]

Why must you take your child in a pushchair shopping on a Saturday, the busiest day of the week?
It their only day off?

[StealthPenguin]

I'd just like to add to your list?

Why do people who have absolutely no visible disability* whatsoever insist on using the lift? And without being ageist or sexist, it will ALWAYS be a gaggle of teenage girls!

I was out shopping the other day with DS in his buggy, and had to ask them to movee as there was no more space in the lift. They glared at me and snorted, then one of them muttered about me "thinking I own the world". I wouldn't have been quite as furious if it hadn't been PRIMARK! WHERE THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE STAIRS, THEY HAVE FUCKING ESCALATORS, YOU LAZY STUPID BITCHES.

Sorry. I get that twice a week, on average. It fucking does my nut in.



*And before anyone starts in on me, I realize that people can be disabled without showing any outward signs, and I'm very accepting of it and I give the benefit of the doubt. However there really are just some fucking lazy people out there who think they're entitled to do whatever the fuck they like. If I could use escalators with a pushchair, I would. But I can't. And therefore I can either be stuck on the top floor of Primark for all eternity, or I can take the lift that was put there to help people with prams, wheelchairs and crutches.

[Barmix]

And why the feck do people, upon leaving the lift, stand right outside the bloody doors so no one else can get out? Ok, they're looking where to go next but MOVE OUT THE BLOODY WAY. The same imbiciles do this at the top or bottom of escalators. And shop doorways.

[NinkyNonker]

Errr, why wouldn't she go shopping on a Sat? What an odd question. (Though I use a sling.)

[gameoldbird]

oooh, it's the people who stop right at the top of an escalator who are the ost irritating ;-)

I can't remember the last time I used a lift so I can't answer your questions. Sorry.

[5Foot5]

"Why do people push in? Because they are trying to get round the pushchair which is taking up 3 times the space of your daughter merely standing or being carried."

But why do people who don't have a pushchair, aren't elderly or disabled or carrying a heavy load need to use the lift anyway?
Answer: Because they are bone idle!

When I had DD in a push chair it used to annoy the hell out of me in the multi-storey car park when I couldn't get in the lift because it was full of able-bodied people who just couldn't be arsed to walk up two flights of stairs.

[StealthPenguin]

[NinkyNonker]

And dd is 15 months, too young to walk, and if I remember correctly the OP's daughter is much younger. I took Dd out in a pushchair yesterday as I couldn't face wrapping her (am pregnant) and had to tackle a lift, despite there being escalators next to us they were full of people with bo wheelchairs, buggies etc. No problem, but after 20 mins of failure we just decided to leave the shopping centre and go elsewhere. I would normally shop online but was meeting my sister who is an officer on a cruise ship, and only in port for one day. Heaven forbid I or my child should dare inconvenience others.

And I suspect she wouldn't be complaining if people were pressing the buttons for floors they wanted to get off on.

[duckdodgers]

northerngirl is there a law banning Mothers with pushchairs going out on a Saturday then that Im unaware of? Since it is my only day off and I have no-one to watch my Ds must I stay in the house then?

[StealthPenguin]

Apparently. Which is a shame, as it's my "family" time with DP. We walk around town, grab a coffee, check out GAME, pop into Ann Summers to have a giggle, get some lunch, check out GAME some more... It's great fun and it's our time together. And you can sod off if you think that I'm carrying my 4m-old DS everywhere - he weighs a frickin' tonne!

Lifts were put there for a reason. To help people who have buggies and who are in wheelchairs and who have mobility problems get around. It is not there so that lazyarse people can stand in a corner and glare.

[Towndon]

I disagree. Lifts are for anyone who prefers to use them.

[StealthPenguin]

So you will happily say that to someone in a wheelchair who can't fit in because of the lazy fuckwits who don't want to take the stairs?

[Kladdkaka]

I'm disabled (often invisibly so) and always use the lifts. It would never occur to me to begrudge ANYONE else using it. If it's full, I just wait the few nano-seconds for the next one. It's come as surprise to me on joining mumsnet that able bodied pram pushers look at me and label me a lazy fuckwit.

[troisgarcons]

I'll up your lift thing to the Tube .... just dont travel if you arent a regular commuter .... you get in everyones way and take up space!

[TidyDancer]

You will find idiots everywhere unfortunately, who will barge and push (etc).

Completely agree that anyone should be entitled to use a lift though. It's not an exclusive 'need' thing.

[NinkyNonker]

It isn't, it just surprises me when people begrudge lift space to a buggy. Esp when right next door to an escalator that requires no more exertion and has a sign outside stating that priority is to be given to buggies and wheelchairs that have no other choice.

Thank fuck for slings and internet shopping.

[Kladdkaka]

But if you use a buggy, you do have a choice. Just like everyone else who doesn't have a disability.