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Why the seal do people not know how to use an elevator?

Am I really so basic? Elevator jokes? Really? Well yes... I am going there because people just don't learn.

An elevator call button... NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

Up and down people... that would be people who push the up and the down to summon the lift faster are just terribly awful people.

If you do this, I am sorry to be the one to tell you this but, you are both unintelligent and selfish. Think very carefully about this and use logic. The elevator is machine that is programmed to respond to inputs of either up or down. In a system with more than one car it coordinates cars based on the pushes on different floors and sends the elevators based on the programming. It cannot deduce that since you pushed the up and the down there must be a ton of people waiting and it should send the car you want faster.

Let's look at it a different way.  You are on floor 10 and you want to go down. Being an idiot you press the "up" and "down" because it is 'faster.' After 30 seconds a car comes going up, seeing a bunch of angry faces you stammer out "going down?" The people in the up car glare at you for wasting 10-30 seconds of their life because you are a moron. You never learn so you press the "up" again. 

Luck shines on you. Another "up" car appears and this one is empty! 'Seal you Adam!' You curse as the doors open and then you hop in and close them while pressing the ground floor. You just used 10-30 seconds of your life and two possible things happen next. 

Option 1 - the car goes up
Option 2 - the car resets

Both options here cost you time... at best option 2 costs you 20-60 seconds. Give yourselves a clap for being idiots the best possible option costs you time.

How does this trick you?
Simple answer. If you press both buttons and the car comes in the direction you are heading you think "I made it come faster" you didn't... it would have come just as quickly if you had only pressed the one button.

The bottom line
The fastest way to get an elevator to come to your floor and go where you want to go is to use the elevator as intended. Up and down people please use your brains.


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  1. Arash.MHD5 December 2013 at 13:32

    "please use your brains" : the bottom line of almost every situation

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  2. Arash.MHD5 December 2013 at 23:41

    they may want to keep their brains new and first hand :|

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