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WE KNOW HOW you feel.
It’s Monday, you have the whole week looming ahead, and you have a lot on your plate.
So do like we do here in TheJournal.ie HQ and get stuck into a serious debate on one of life’s most pressing issues.
Possibly.
This week: There are two types of people in the world. Those who press the button to close the doors a bit faster when they’re in a lift, and those who don’t.
Hell, there are some in that second group who even – whisper it – question whether that button actually does anything, or whether it’s put there simply to make people think that the doors are closing faster than they are.
Where do you stand ?
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Of course I press the button. If I add up all the extra seconds I’ve saved in my life by doing it I must have saved at least 4 minutes. The fact that I have nothing to do with those extra minutes is another matter…
You could take several additional lift journeys with those four minutes.
Depends. If I see someone running for the lift, I hit that thing with abandon. Normally I can’t be bothered.
Ha, brilliant article and answers. Yes, I just like answering polls.
50% of people like answering polls. That’s nearly half.
…and toy like statistics.
You!
And 5/3 people can’t do fractions.
Ah but do people know the trick… Hold the button and the floor you are going to and it closes immediately and skips all other floors even if the button is pressed on them ;-)
i’m going to either make a tit out of myself trying that or become a legend amongst random lift user’s.. what’s worse is never knowing. Cheer’s for that Paul, I now have something to do on my day off tomorrow :-)
Oh by the way can I change my answer on the poll?? You’ll never guess what I’m after doing, damn my itchy trigger finger…
Not pressing that button in a lift is just daft, on so many levels.
Well done
I press all the wrong buttons!
Press the button and I hate when the door is about to close and someone puts a foot or a hand in to open it again grrr.
My daughter always presses it cos she hates sharing the lift
You might want to teach her that sharing is what decent human beings do… Just saying.
I never said she was decent, just my daughter, but now I think of it she’s quite lovely thanks, u should browse for more polls, just saying
I press it furiously so I can get the lift to myself because YES I actually do sing to my self with an imaginary microphone, and subsequently accept an imaginary Grammy for my performance when I get it all to myself.
I press the buttons for all the other floors, it gives me great pleasure knowing the next person in the lift will suffer greatly…. Ha Ha Haaaaa..
Where do you get off on this ?
Where?
Usually wherever there’s a lift, the more floors the better.
The key is to hold the button in for greater success!
At the lift at my work we’ve to hold the doors shut with our hands before it’ll move.
‘Pressing issue’…I see what you did there.
Haha Christine you legend!! Best poll of 2015
Some lifts (or elevators) have two sets of buttons for opening and closing. One set (open / close) has a single arrow pair and another set will have double arrows.
But what is not told is the buttons are not connected to the control circuits. They are there to occupy the people in the lift and make them think they are helping them.
Always. Lol
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