To expect that when a lift going DOWN reaches the bottom floor, everyone will get out, not give me dirty looks

[knpeppa]

This happened to me today: called the lift in the basement floor of a shopping centre, lift arrived absolutely crammed full, I moved to let them off, at first no-one budged, but finally they begrudgingly let me on, I wanted to get off at ground floor, everyone had to move to let me off. Gaily said "Thank You" while everyone gave me dirty looks.

What is the matter with these people? Is this normal behaviour? Do they not know the lift is going down and someone might possibly want to get in on the bottom floor? If you want to go up, isn't it quicker just to wait for a lift going up?

Oh doesn't it piss you off? Do these people own the lift then? People are so sullen and miserable when it would be just as easy to be pleasant. Take no notice, you were being polite.

Trouble is in the UK these days if you smile at people they either think you're crazy or you fancy them. But you have to keep doing it and try and keep manners and pleasantries alive.

Oh I once had an embarrassing lift moment once. Dp and I were getting into a lift at the women's hospital and a man came running up to catch it. I went to press the button that keeps the doors open but somehow pressed the doors shut button. We thought the lift was going up and we were giggling at my stupidity making the poor guy miss the lift the next minute the doors opened and he was on the otherside, the lift hadn't moved anywhere and he must have heard us laughing.

So it seems I am not being unreasonable ...
I am just amazed that a whole lift full of people (OK, there were about 3 adults, with buggies and children) would get in a lift going the wrong way either out of sheer laziness or because they think it's quicker, or more interesting being IN the lift as opposed to standing outside waiting for it... the lift will not get there any faster.

Another thing that gets me is people who expect YOU to be an unpaid lift operator simply because you happen to be standing near the door (not blocking the buttons, of course). I try never to stand near the door for this reason.

Anyway I'm glad there are a few people out there who see my point of view...

Ooh ooh - can I join in, I just had an irritating lift experience.

Busy shopping centre with plenty of escalators. I wait for lift (a family of apparent able bodied people get in it not leaving room for me and dd (in pushchair). I get in next one. A family follow me in (again apparently capable of using escalators). Look at buttons where I have pushed 2, another bloke has pushed 1 and then mother pushes LG (we're on Ground). Lift goes up unsuprisingly and mother tuts and moans about it going up. Bloke gets out at 1st floor and we don't. Lift goes up again (quel surpris), mother tuts and moans again.

Arrrrggghhhh. That'll teach me to attempt shopping on a non-nursery day.

My first job was in a 12 storey building and I often had to use the lift. One day there was an official looking notice attached to one of the walls in the lift saying
'It had come to our attention that employees using this lift are continually watching the floor number display above the doors and not concentrating on what they should be doing. When the lift slows there is plenty of time to check the number display to see if this is your floor. In line with company policy please do NOT number watch'.

I was 16 at the time and kept my eyes down. It was a few weeks before I realised it was a joke

What I find annoying is those people, who when waiting for a lift, stand right in front of the doors. Then tut at the people trying to get out!! Or they try and push their way in when people are trying to come out. FFS the lift won't suddenly disappear if you don't get on 5 seconds after the doors open! The polite thing to do is to wait to one side so people disembarking have space to do so!

I had an argument with a woman in a hotel once about lift call buttons. We wanted to go down, so I pressed the Down button. She said "oh no- you need up to go down" and pressed the up button (WTF?)

Went shopping with the pushchair yesterday. Not a good idea. Lots of shops have a little tiny lift in the far corner that takes ages to get to. STILL able-bodied adults tried to climb over the pushchair when we landed... Use the escalator!

Am so glad it's not just me that gets irked by those people who get in regardless of the direction the lift is going in. But unfortunately, as someone said, it sometimes gets to the point where you have to do it wrong as well or you lose out. For example, I stood on ground floor (with DD in pushchair) at front of a fair sized crowd all waiting to go UP in M&S. Lift arrived on its way DOWN, I did not get on, everyone else did, lift went down, then back up again, stopping to let me on except - yes you've guessed it there was no room because of all the numpties who had got on to go down and then up again. So I had to wait for it to go up to 1st floor, down via ground floor to basement, then up again at which point I could finally get on. DD was grumbling all that time too, and who can blame her?

Try getting out of a lift with a patient on a trolley. People will either try and barge into the lift, or will not move to let you and patient out. One person even commented staff and patients should not use visitors lifts!!!!

I become quite rude and shout "excuse me, patient coming out" in my best Hattie Jacques matrons voice.

I am that they don't have special lifts for patients on trolleys! You mean you have to use the same lift as everybody else?

Imagine the chaos if Lift Amateurs had to cope with a paternoster lift

ROFL @ conversations acceptible in a lift on that link

PMSL!

I hate grumpy people in lifts but me and my cousin found these and we made our own hidden camera show using (most) of them.
You should remember some we had so much fun people can't walk away from you untill there floor.
After doing this for 2 weeks in the same set of lifts you find ALOT of people take the stairs.

www.area51newmexico.com/lifts.php link would be good

I'd forgotten all about paternoster lifts! We had some in our university library. You'd always get some joker who'd stay on at the top floor, go round the top and come down the other side standing on his head to convince new students that the lifts really did turn upside down at the top.

I went to Sheffield uni and they have a paternoster in the Arts Tower, which I think is the tallest in England? Very cool!

OMG we used to go round and round and round in the paternoster for a laugh

when you came out, you couldn't walk straight for quite a while