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Why do able bodied people wait to take elevators down or up one floor?
- Thread starter makonero
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I dislike waiting for the elevator. I always go for the stairs by default. I usually move pretty quickly up them too. Don't like meandering on the stairs lol.
It's the definition of a self fulfilling prophecy, though isn't it?
They can't take a short walk because they're always winded from a small amount of exercise, and they're never going to be change that unless they do it regularly.
I rarely ever take the elevator unless I am in a hurry or it's a gazillion floors up. I prefer walking up or down the stairs, I'd rather not wait for the elevator to arrive. I usually end up beating my friends that end up using the elevator.
What happened if there was a fire? Did the stairwell doors auto unlock in the event of an alarm or were you all expected to use the lifts to evacuate?
I live on the second floor of my building but the stairs are for emergency only--can't open the door to a residential floor from the stairwell and an alarm goes off. Plus the door on the ground floor goes outside rather than to the lobby. So I have to take the elevator.
The lifeworld is arguably set up that way. Elevators, being the big constructions that they are, are usually featured pretty centrally, so we're primed to naturally go to them first and perhaps don't think to use the stairs.
Same with my building, except I live on the 11th floor. The stairs are supposed to be for emergency use only so you can only open them to get down, but not up. I'd damn use the stairs to go up if I could access my floor from them.
Honestly one main staircase is at the opposite end of the building from the elevators. I use that so often I forget the others exist so I just use the elevator when I'm not near it. Also the other staircases take you to weird locations like back halls and the cafeteria. Sometimes I just want to come out near an entrance to the building.
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Slightly different point, but I get annoyed when people use the elevator to travel 1-2 floors, when I'm trying to get to the top floor.
Just take the stairs if it's only a couple of flights. Lazy and inconsiderate to other elevator users.
Just take the stairs if it's only a couple of flights. Lazy and inconsiderate to other elevator users.
I ways take the stairs max 3 floors.
However, we never know how able a person is to walk the stairs even if they look fit.
However, we never know how able a person is to walk the stairs even if they look fit.
I take the stairs (unless the number of floors to travel is more than 2) more than 9 times out of 10. The most common reason to take the elevator is that I'm having a conversation I want to keep going, it's easier that way.
That said, I won't judge anyone for being a bit lazy, and I won't make any assumptions about their health. For example, my coworker looks like a healthy 40 year old man, but in reality, his knee is a source of constant pain.
That said, I won't judge anyone for being a bit lazy, and I won't make any assumptions about their health. For example, my coworker looks like a healthy 40 year old man, but in reality, his knee is a source of constant pain.
I was literally about to post this but glad someone beat me to it
Also, consider this - if you are in a group of 2+ people of varying fitness, age, height even, and are having a conversation, taking the lift ensures everyone is still together with no pressure on the quick or the slow. Take the stairs and you'll end up waiting on slower people and the slower people rush to not be a hindrance.
But I'm a stairs person, just highlighting many reasons why people take lifts
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People are going to use it anyway, I usually prefer stairs but I mean if the lift is open in front of me and there's room I may as well get in.
I use the 1-floor elevator at out local swimming pool, once a week.
I think this is partially, because we don't have an elevator at home so it is a fun novelty. (probably partially a hangover of it being a really fun button pushing activity for young kids - now my childrenare a bit older and I seem to enjoy it more then them!)
It is also partially a efficiency thing. We are always running late, and i can normally tie up my daughters hair and get her cap on, something that would be highly dangerous to do whilst walking down the stairs.
I think this is partially, because we don't have an elevator at home so it is a fun novelty. (probably partially a hangover of it being a really fun button pushing activity for young kids - now my childrenare a bit older and I seem to enjoy it more then them!)
It is also partially a efficiency thing. We are always running late, and i can normally tie up my daughters hair and get her cap on, something that would be highly dangerous to do whilst walking down the stairs.
When my work was on two floors, it depended on what I was doing really, I took the stairs probably 3/4 of the time, but sometimes I felt lazy and would elevator up a floor
Some of them are in poor shape, some of them are lazy, some off them have injuries you can't see, and some of them have reasons we probably can't guess at.
Worry less about that sort of shit.
Worry less about that sort of shit.
Yep. Supposedly Trump has it.
http://common-phobias.com/bathmo/phobia.htm
There are people with balance problems, with neuropathy problems (intense pain or lack of feeling in extremities), and visual problems, too that would make stairs more dangerous, and none of those issues would be visible.
I work in a building with three floors and I never use the elevators, even when going between the ground floor and 2nd floor. I think most people use the stairs too.
On the rare occasion that a colleague I'm with decides to use the elevator, I'll take the stairs quicker and hit the button on the 1st floor just to make them wait longer.
On the rare occasion that a colleague I'm with decides to use the elevator, I'll take the stairs quicker and hit the button on the 1st floor just to make them wait longer.