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Original poster

Lift Etiquette- warning Judgy Pants well and truly hoiked up

68 replies

LordOfTheFlies · 14/05/2011 18:34

In fact Judgy Pants were so high up in a wedgie they were over my lower jaw and tongue in a Scolds Bridle fashion.Just as well as DD doesn't really want to see her mother lose the plot.
Okay. Today,town centre Sainsburys, 4 storey car-park.Escalator and travelator to floor 1. 3 lifts., one which is for trolleys not customers.One not working: one in use.
Full trolley waiting for lift, theres a couple of women with buggies, some who didn't look so mobile but a fair few with 1 or 2 small bags who could use the stairs.
I know you can't tell just by looking if someone has got any disabilities but these were the 'tutting' and abusing the trolley collector ones who eventually went up the stairs ( because they got bored waiting not because of their conscience pricking them)
I may well be Unreasonable but I really wanted to tell them to get the bloody stairs leave the lifts free for those who need them
Happens all the time and just today it really hacked me off.
runs away and puts on full suit of armour.With shin pads

OP posts:
MotherSnacker · 14/05/2011 20:33

Well , i think it is fair to say you can't judge who needs the lift and who has poor lift etiquette. As long as they are not screaming get outta my fuckin' way or farting once inside that is.

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 20:35

What's wrong with guffing in lifts?

A1980 · 14/05/2011 20:43

I'm young, look fine but I have the beginnings of arthritis in both knees. Yes it happens to younger people. It hurts to walk up and down stairs sometimes so depending on how they feel shock horror I will get the lift sometimes.

YABVFU

Punkatheart · 14/05/2011 20:44
  • reminds self to never get in a lift with anyone who looks like they may be bupcakesandcunting....would rather kill herself on the stairs than be gassed in lift.....
whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2011 20:44

Actually I'm with bupcakes and the OP. Not because people don't have genuine reasons for using the lift but there is an assumption that people have that they have priority because they were there first.

And people are fecking lazy these days, they really are. I train my kids to stomp up the stairs, it's good for them. But yes it takes longer and people can't be arsed so take the lift and then their kids don't learn to use the stairs as a default.

Which means tired people, sick people, disabled people, older people etc. have to wait longer.

whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2011 20:45

Oh and yes the OP and other lift users should also have a bit of patience and tolerance for others with unseen priorities and needs.

whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2011 20:46

I find shouting out PING every time you pass a floor and then farting clears busy lifts fairly effectively Grin

CrapBag · 14/05/2011 20:46

"What's wrong with guffing in lifts" Grin

Bupcakes I swear if they made those tops, I may wear one. Wink

purplepidjin · 14/05/2011 20:47

YABU to want to control who uses the lifts

YANBU for thinking it bloody rude of the seemingly able people to be audibly tutting at having to wait!

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 20:47

My guffs smell like dead people Chanel No.5. :)

Punkatheart · 14/05/2011 20:47

...sneezing and slobbering clears them quickly too...

CrapBag · 14/05/2011 20:48

"I find shouting out PING every time you pass a floor and then farting clears busy lifts fairly effectively" I would really be laughing if someone was doing this in a lift I was in (maybe not the farting bit though).

whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2011 20:50

[http://www.area51newmexico.com/lifts.php Crapbag, over here]] Grin

whomovedmychocolate · 14/05/2011 20:50

Bugger www.area51newmexico.com/lifts.php

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 20:54

"Bupcakes I swear if they made those tops, I may wear one."

Original poster
LordOfTheFlies · 14/05/2011 20:56

Okay, slightly diffrent scenario: if I was in a hospital site ( where I do work time to time) and there was only one lift (unusual but not outside the realms of possibility) and a queue bulding. If I was too say;
"Oh its getting busy and hospital lifts are notoriously slow. Can anyone who can use the stairs do so," do you think I'd get these answers? No, I don't flippin think so.
And I said in my opening thread that I know you can't tell by looking.
And I didn't say anything,I just thought it and wondered after if I should.( Man doing trollies getting earache from those who wanted to use his trolley lift.

OP posts:
CrapBag · 14/05/2011 20:57

Thanks for that, PMSL! Grin

CrapBag · 14/05/2011 20:58

See you on Dragons Den with your collection of witty/disabled slogan clothing. Grin

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 21:01

I've got loads, me. I came up with this one when my uncle lost his eye in an accident "EYE EYE CAP'N" Luckily, sick humour is genetic in our family.

Punkatheart · 14/05/2011 21:48

..oh I love a bit of sick humour....it really is the best medicine....I make the most warped jokes about my illness. It makes people gasp but makes me happy....

hester · 14/05/2011 21:52

YANBU, OP.

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 22:03

I make jokes about illnesses but only because a) humour is my coping mechanism and b) I've got shit for wit :( I mean no harm

PumpkinBones · 14/05/2011 22:09

The lifts at our local shopping centre has a sign asking for preference to be given to people with buggies and wheelchair users. It is always very busy (major city) and I know there will be many people affected by invisible disabilities, but not 20 or 30 people at a time...I did once have to say something when, at a particular busy time, there were people running and pushing past buggies, including a mother with a SN pushchair whose child was on oxygen Angry it was appalling to watch.

CrapBag · 14/05/2011 22:11

Bupcakes that "don't mind me, I have M.E." is really good. I would wear that just to raise awareness. Smile

bupcakesandcunting · 14/05/2011 22:19

Watch out for me on the gogglebox. I am taking this to DRAGONS DEN.