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And then when the elevator door opens, they ask the people inside: "Are you going up or down?" There's an arrow showing that, for Christ's sake.
by trivo 2mo ago
And then when the elevator door opens, they ask the people inside: "Are you going up or down?" There's an arrow showing that, for Christ's sake.
- themaninthedark 2mo agoTrue but sometimes someone hits a button on the inside by mistake. Or someone was going to get off then decides not to.
- SoMomentary 2mo agoSometimes I think "stupid" questions like these are just a way to break the ice, something that gets used to kindly acknowledge the momentary existence of others in our lives before we continue down our separate paths.
- deathanatos 2mo ago… and the elevator is still going the way it is going, and that way is still indicated by the illuminated arrow.
- wpm 2mo agoYeah and you can flail your head around looking for the arrow or you can just ask. Especially on a busy elevator lobby there might be multiple cars opening at the same time so you cant even tell from the ding/ding-ding
- ImPostingOnHN 2mo agoor just point your eyes a few degrees away to look at the dedicated arrows next to each elevator, built for this exact use case, which indicate whether that specific elevator is going up or down? I have to assume this is a cultural difference and you just don't have those indicators where you live, rather than "slightly moving my eyes is too hard, better make my problem into somebody else's problem"
- gabrieledarrigo 2mo ago"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."
- GurnBlandston 2mo ago"Have you stopped urinating in public?"
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoWhen did you stop beating your wife?
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoThe direction is also indicated by the chime sound, which only blind people and YouTube viewers seem to know. As for button pressing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#As_a_metaphor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult#As_a_metaphor
- shmeeed 2mo agoTIL! I need to keep an ear open for this.