to wonder if working a lift is a lost art where I live.

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At the car park yesterday, I got in the lift and pressed floor 4 where my car was parked. A group of girls got in and didn't press any button at all. When it opened at floor 3, they all exclaimed, OH! This is not our floor! but still didnt press anything. I got out at floor 4 thinking they must have wanted that one (seeing as they got on at 0, 1 is offices, they went straight past 2 and 3 was 'wrong') and watched as they stayed in the lift till the doors closed, but still not pressing the buttons?!

The same happened last week in TK Max. Group of boys got in and didnt press anything. DH said, What floor? But they ignored him. The lift is rubbish in there and went to all three floors and then went down again. The boys got out at the same floor they got on at, looking rather confused.

These incidents happen to me at least once a week, I have a million of these stories. Its not just the youth - a pregnant woman was standing in a broken one with tape across the buttons waiting for the doors to close.

Is working a lift a lost art??? Am I the only one to notice this?!

I often wonder the same about pelican crossings. The number of times I watch people standing there, waiting for the lights to change, but they've not pressed the button, is unbelievable.

YANBU.

My kids know how to work a lift. But I have noticed several times people who really should know, managing to fail completely.

For example - a hospital assistant, when my daughter was in hospital, pressing the 'up' button outside the lift when she wanted to go down - her logic being that she needed the lift to come up to her as it was on the ground floor. And then she was surprised when the lift took her up a level. This was in the hospital that she works in.

She also argued with me when I explained, refusing to believe me!

Oneway maybe they've read the threads on here bitching at people who dare to press the button after you've already pressed it.

Ha ha haha is this the place to admit that last year I had a horrendous cold got into the lift with dd, who also had a cold.

It was one of those lifts where when you get to top the opposite doors open iyswim. The doors shut and dd sneezed so I was intent on clearing her nose. Just as I thought the lift was taking ages I looked behind me as the doors opened and I was still on the ground floor. My face went

as I realised I'd not pressed the bloody button to go to the first floor!

UANBU People me need to learn the buttons make lifts move.