A few words of admonishment for my would-be elevator riding companions:
Over the course of the past few years I've seen far too much disturbing lemming-like behavior surrounding the office elevator to continue to neglect the chance to bring myself personal pleasure of it. This is just compensation for the times you have ticked me off. Are you amongst the horde that so impatiently presses both the up and down buttons, cram-packedly board at floor 20, ride to 25 under the patently false assumption that the sooner you board the sooner you arrive, and then finally press 0 to proceed to your ground floor destination? Are you one of the dweebs responsible for the fact that anytime I ride from the 25th floor to the ground floor mid-day, when the elevator is hardly in demand, I can expect to stop at a minimum of 2-3 intermediary floors upon which no person will board or alight the elevator car?
I had my sweet revenge today. I boarded on floor 20 and waited calmly without pressing a button. Soon I was shuttled down to the 16th floor to pick up more passengers. They were too trusting to notice I had NOT pressed "1". After two or three more stops and coming awfully close to our ground floor destination, I silently laughed myself to death at the look on their startled faces as the lot of us were shuttled back up to the 25th floor to start our downward journey all over again.
Don't count on me to press the button for you, jackasses.
