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It's not such a big secret that most elevator close buttons don't work: if you push them, nothing happens. That's not too hard to figure out on your own. And wh
by kleiba 16y ago
It's not such a big secret that most elevator close buttons don't work: if you push them, nothing happens. That's not too hard to figure out on your own. And which, by the way, annoys me greatly and causes quite the opposite of a "feeling of control" in me, as it rather demonstrates my lack of control! (Also, in the back of my head I hear the elevator company laughing at me in a Nelson kind of "Ha! Ha!".)
What is it about those three to five seconds between chosing your floor and the door closing that makes them feel like three to five hours? I suppose it's because we use elevators so frequently that all these seconds start adding up to some actual time wasted without any reason.
- helmut_hed 16y agoI too feel a lack of control and frustration from the fact that walk signals (such as across 3rd St in SF) and elevator "close" buttons obviously do nothing. Perhaps it's my Aspergers/geek thing, but I feel patronized by the fake buttons. On of my favorite things about traveling to places like Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. is that the close door buttons work. It's ridiculous, I know, but I feel like it points to some sort of cultural difference.