...to wish that people wouldn't stick their limbs/bags/umbrellas in the closing lift door?

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This just seems like madness to me - why risk life and limb (and your umbrella) by sticking them in the doors of the lift just as it is about to close! Who is really so busy that they cannot wait two minutes for the next lift?

well its a bit like that poor guy who died trying to jump back onto a moc=ving train for a present and bunch of flowers... i suppose you just dont consider how u cld be hurt! i once saw a little girl get her hand cut by a lift, it was a really bad gash, her mum felt awful cos she'd told her to do it to hold the lift for an old lady!

Nigerians are too busy, they can't possibly wait. In fact, they're so impatient to get in that those leaving the lift have to force their way through a heaving scrum of bodies in ordert to exit. Dh generally uses the stairs instead.

Don't get me started on lifts! I hate it when people use lifts because they are too lazy to use stairs or escolaters

I have to use the lift because i have a buggy so don't have the choice It just slows the whole process of trying to get anything done when you get people running to the lift and opening the doors as they are closing because they are too impatient or too lazy!

I also get really lift sick and hate it when i just want to go up one floor and end up going up and down, up and down!

I also hate it when the lift is clearly full but someone insists on trying to sqeeze in making everyone compact like sardines!

I told you not to get me started...!

I don't think they're risking anything though. Lifts have a thing to make sure they open if anything is in them.

the lifts in our local shopping centre are ridiculous, you barely have time to get out before the doors are closing and once they're closed they're closed.
if you press the button before they close- they close anyway.

so, am regularly shoving my buggy/arm/umbrella/small child(only joking) between them

i quite enjoy having a snogger at the folk sticking appendages/objects/buggies just to catch that lift, because they are so impatient and too important to wait

MsSparkle -i am confused?if you get "lift sick" why are you using it to go one floor? thought you hated it when "when people use lifts because they are too lazy to use stairs or escolaters"

LOL a snigger even?

no one risks a limb they have sensors on them - its not like a guilotine.

YES they have a sensor that detects obstructions.so no traumatic loss of limb just exasperation for others in lift

Mind you, having sharp edges like a guillotine would concentrate the mind somewhat, wouldn't it??

nearly as sharp as some of the stares received as another foot stops the lift

I once saw a man killed when I was little because he was trying to jump on to a moving train as the doors were closing - he got sucked underneath the train I was sitting opposite the doors so saw the whole thing and I've been terrified of moving doors ever since so I get really jumpy when people try to do things like this.

eeeek!god dreadful thing to happen