Elevators...

So some of you may know my issues with elevators.. and elevator ettiquette...  So many funny things happen in elevators.. and so many frustrating things as well.. 

One of the funniest things I have seen in a long time was when I walking to the elevator to take to my car at 5pm-ish.. someone from another office tower, comes running out jumps over the rope to get to the elevator before me.. .I guess he really really wanted to push the button.  I had to stifle a laugh.  Like really guy?  Was it THAT important for you to push the button?  I seriously would have let you.. it doesn't really matter to me who pushes the button.. as long as I see the light come on to indicate it has been pushed.. i am a happy camper.. 

Another annoying thing about elevators are the people that arrive to the elevator bank last and insist on pushing their way in..  I mean come on. did you not see the 10 other people standing there CLEARLY waiting for the elevator?  But no, go ahead.. you were here last.. you deserve the next empty elevator.. I will wait.. heck.. I like to push the button, so I can stand here all day.. what do I care. 

My office tower is located in what is called the "skylobby" of the Copley Place Mall.  I park in the garage, so pretty much the only way to the garage is by the elevator banks. There is an escalator that can take you to the mall levels...  Why do I tell you this?  Because it frustrates me to no end that people are too damn lazy to take the escalator to the mall levels.  Umm.. yeah.. you really dont have to do much on them. They are MOVING STAIRS. You can just hold on the railing, and it will move you up or down. You don't even have to walk. OH wait.  I lied.. If you want to get to the first level of the mall, you DO have to walk around to get to the next escalator to take you to the first level.  So wait.. I get it now.. I get why they can't walk over to the escalator and must force themselves into the elevator, drastically increasing the time it takes for me to get to the garage, in my car and get the heck out of dodge.

Here's another funny/ironic.. i don't know.. I guess it might not be funny to you.. but it is to me.. there is a separate set of elevators that are for the tower my office is in.  Our company is on the 7th floor.  There is one elevator that is very tempermental. Even when I push 7, if I am not paying attention, the doors open and I am back on the first floor.  We finally figured out how this happens.  It has something to do with the 5th floor.  If people push the 5th floor button, then the elevator will not continue up to 7.  It stops on 5 and then heads back down.  and NO I didn't ride the elevator all day to figure this out.  Well maybe part of the day.. but not all day.. KIDDING.. 

One day while I was stuck in the elevator while it decided 5 was as far as it wanted to go, I had this weird thought.. that this elevator was like my life..  sometimes I make it all the way up and I am at the top.. but if I don't keep my eye on what is going on and how I am doing/feeling, then I can easily slip back down without even noticing... 

So that's all for now folks.. 

This post is a bunch of rambling.. as usual..  maybe someday.. I will have something witty and inspiring to say.. but methinks... today was not that day.. ha ha.. 

This is what happens when you try to write a blog at 7a..  :)