Part of Faith’s post today talked about some elevator etiquette. I started to leave a comment but it ended up being too long so I thought I’d post it here.
Many people, including me have written rules about bathroom etiquette. Well, it’s about time we had an Elevator Etiquette, or Rules for the Elevator.
1. When you walk up to the call buttons and the direction you want to go is already pushed then don’t push it again, you jerk-off.
2. If none of the call buttons are pushed then press your button only once. Rapidly pushing the button DOES NOT make the elevator move any faster. It just makes you look like an impatient Jerk wad.
3. When the elevator doors open and there are people that want to get off, they have the right of way let them off first. Before you bum rush the elevator. What? Are you trying to get the best seat at a fuckin’ movie theater? Slow down, have some patience, the car will still be there, even if 50 midgets get off when you want on.
4. If you get to the elevator and the doors are just closing. DO NOT press the call button. There will be another car in a few minuets. If you’re in that much of a rush to get to wherever you’re going then you should have left earlier.
5. Holding the elevator should only be done for hot chicks/guys. Nuff said. You know it, I know it, she knows it, he knows it, I just had the balls to say it.
6. If you’re the last one on and closest to the floor buttons then its your duty as the “driver” to ensure the every one has the opportunity to call out which floor they want to stop at and its your responsibility to push the correct buttons. If you fail in this task then its obvious that you’re too stupid to have job in a building. This also allows all of the other occupants the opportunity to punch you in your taint on their way out of the elevator be cause your a dip-shit.
7. When you finally get a chance to board the elevator walk all the way to the back. Turn and face the doors the you entered from. If, in your journey to your floor, the car stops and it’s not your floor, then move all the way back but do NOT crowd the person behind you. If you can feel their tits, or belly or boner. Then your too fucking close move the fuck up. Or you’ll get pregnant or ass fucked. But if that’s what your looking for have at it don’t let me stop you.
8. Pay attention to what floor the car stops on. If you get off on the wrong floor then I hope you have fun looking like a douche bag while trying to get back in a crowded elevator.
9. DO NOT under any circumstances press the emergency stop button. It will scare the shit out of the other passengers and will result in you getting gang banged, or having your briefcase shoved up your ass. Seriously, if you do stop the car, while I’m in it, because you think it’s funny, I will break you in half like a fucking twig.
10. This is the most important. If you are going either up or down one floor then TAKE THE FUCKING STAIRS!!!! Are you that lazy that you can’t walk 15 feet to the stairs to walk up or down one flight of stairs? Are you fucking kidding me? There are few things in this world that annoy me more than someone getting on the elevator and going one fucking floor. I just want to punch you in the face and eat your babies. If your healthy there is no reason for you to do be riding an elevator for a trip that last one floor. The amount of time that you spend waiting on the car you could have already been to where ever your going. I work in a 6 story office building (4 office floors, 2 parking floors) I always park on the 2nd level (lowest) I work on the 2nd floor. We’ve been in that building for a year and a half, I’ve NEVER EVEN BEEN ON THE ELEVATOR!! I always take the stairs!
I think 10 is enough if you think some should be added, let me know in the comments.
Thanks for reading!



10 responses so far ↓
1 KC Sponge // Jun 6, 2008 at 8:25 am
I used to work at Sprint way back in the day in Orlando . . . It was a big office building and my friend Kelly and I were like 10 years younger than all the other peeps working there. The elevator rides were always long and uncomfortable, SO one day, we decided to make them even more so . . . We would get onto the elevator and never turn around to face the doors - we would just stand facing the back, whether or not anyone was there. Yeah, it was immature, probably stupid, and no doubt annoying - but it was a lovely experiment on the human condition - people would be so nervous and not even look at us, or even turn their bodies slightly to the side so as to not have us in their darting sightline, we would get a lot of elevator rides alone, and we ultimately got transferred to another floor - with younger, albeit even more annoying people.
Thanks for this comprehensive list of more rules to challenge in our socially normative life. God, I wish I worked in an office building!!!
2 Bull E. Vard // Jun 6, 2008 at 9:28 am
I disagree with #6 vehemently. You should push your own damn button on your way in to the elevator. Only if you get onto a full elevator is asking someone to push a button for you acceptable. I’m not anyone’s servant, take a second to control your destiny and push your button.
I would add one rule. If you get on an elevator and see someone from your floor, don’t push your floor button again. I find it very rude when someone I see 3 times a day on my floor doesn’t recognize that I work on the same floor and feels the need to push my floor button after I’ve already pushed it.
3 red // Jun 6, 2008 at 10:42 am
What’s the rule for presenting one’s penis on an elevator or asking for sex while on an elevator?
4 meesha.v // Jun 6, 2008 at 10:47 am
you didn’t cover “elevator eyes” specifically addressed in my company’s rule-book and what to do if you made eye contact with the person outside of the elevator when the door starts to close. also, I agree with Bull, only when you are out of reach you should ask people to push the button.
5 The D // Jun 6, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Sponge - I would have made faces back at you if you pulled those kind of shenanigans on my elevator. And I mean the pornographic faces.
Bull - If the elevator isn’t full then the person that was standing nearest the door should have moved back. In theory the person closest to the buttons would be that last one on.
Red - You’ll have to ask Steve Tyler or Joe Perry that question.
Meesha - I stand by my rule. Only hold the elevator for hot chicks.
6 emawkc // Jun 6, 2008 at 2:22 pm
When a woman gets on the elevator, I’m happy to push her button for her. In fact, I think its nice for the lady if I push her button in rapid repetition until she gets off.
I’m just a nice guy like that.
7 Faith // Jun 6, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Emaw, I’m so glad you park on the other end of the building from me.
8 emawkc // Jun 6, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Faith, I kind of like parking in the rear.
9 Faith // Jun 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
GAH!
10 The D // Jun 6, 2008 at 4:35 pm
This is the kind of talk you get when you take Jesus out of the elevator.
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