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(56,582 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:11 AM Jan 2015

WHY DO PEOPLE PRESS BOTH "UP" AND "DOWN" TO CALL AN ELEVATOR [View all]

WHY?

WHY??!!!??

If it were just slowing down my trip, to make your trip faster, I'd actually understand that better. But that's not how it works. If I'm on 1, going to 14, and you're at 6, going to 1, and you press both "up" and "down", you're making it take more time for both of us. I'd actually prefer it if you were getting some advantage out of my inconvenience, because that would at least be rational.

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WHY DO PEOPLE PRESS BOTH "UP" AND "DOWN" TO CALL AN ELEVATOR [View all] Recursion Jan 2015 OP

Now here's a tech question I can at least *understand*. Smarmie Doofus Jan 2015 #1

because they don't understand how the buttons work eShirl Jan 2015 #2

And why is the DING so loud? Phentex Jan 2015 #3

y? mopinko Jan 2015 #4

I like pushing buttons Major Nikon Jan 2015 #5

Let's say I want to go up, and the hotel is really crowded. dawg Jan 2015 #6

I've gotten on, going the wrong way, for that reason. In_The_Wind Jan 2015 #7

At the last seminar I attended it was the only way to get into the elevator csziggy Jan 2015 #8

For the same reason they try to stampede into hifiguy Jan 2015 #9

Hedging their bets. :-) WinkyDink Jan 2015 #10

Just to Piss Me Off! sharp_stick Jan 2015 #11