A curiosity - elevator buttons

[DizBelle]

So, you walk up to the elevators. Someone is already standing there. The button is already lit to request an elevator to go up. WHY do you press the button again? Do you think the elevator will really come faster if you press it again? Do you think the button is lying? What is the thought process here?

 

[hiwaygal]

Mostly I do it out of habit.

See button, push it.

 

[Chuck S]

Buttons lie.

 

[MIGrandma]

I feel the same way as you do. If the light around the button is lit when I walk up to the elevator I do not push it again. I don't understand why people do that either.

 

[RangerPooh]

If you are like me an dhave kids it's part of the "elevator process", it just needs to be done. I agree that it's out of habit, as well as wanting to make sure that the button was actually pushed and not just a faulty light that remains on.

 

[Missy1961]

I feel the same way as you do. If the light around the button is lit when I walk up to the elevator I do not push it again. I don't understand why people do that either.

 

[ChrisFL]

I feel the same way as you do. If the light around the button is lit when I walk up to the elevator I do not push it again. I don't understand why people do that either.

Because if the elevator hasn't arrived yet, you did it wrong. Clearly it being lit up is not an indication that you did it right because the elevator didn't arrive already!!!

I went to elevator button pushing school for just such occasions!!

 

[zeferjen]

I will answer for my 3yo: "Because it's there"

 

[hiwaygal]

I will answer for my 3yo: "Because it's there"

Smart kid!!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Sometimes it is just to let the elevator know it can close the door--and sometimes the number is easier to find than the button marked.....

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No sinister plot that the elevator can't be believed.

Have you ever gotten on an elevator that just sits there with the doors open waiting for someone to do something?

 

[DizBelle]

I will answer for my 3yo: "Because it's there"

Ok, that works for a 3 year old. Not for a grown adult who knows better.

 

[KimR]

Probably for the same reason that, during a power outage, I turn on the light switch when walking into my bedroom. I'm carrying a flashlight, I know the light's not coming on....yet I still do it.

 

[disneyjunkie]

So, you walk up to the elevators. Someone is already standing there. The button is already lit to request an elevator to go up. WHY do you press the button again? Do you think the elevator will really come faster if you press it again? Do you think the button is lying? What is the thought process here?

That drives me nuts.

I have another elevator question. Why do some people press both buttons? You're going up OR down! Press one button and leave the other one alone.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Sometimes I push it out of habit but mostly I don't even look to see if it's lit or not. However, if I do happen to remember to look and see if it's lit , I wouldn't push it again. That's futile.

 

[laurie31]

It's called elacceleration!

elacceleration: The usually useless practice of pressing the elevator button a hundred times with the belief that it will actually speed the arrival of the elevator.

http://www.slangsite.com/slang/E.html

 

[lovin diz]

why does the elevator always stop on the second floor--and healthy people walk onto the elevator?!?

Does the word STAIRS come to mind??? I wish i was not on the top floor, i would use the stairs everyday..

 

[happygirl]

Habit, I had no idea it bothered people.

 

[sbell111]

Depending on the control system, it might actually result in an elevator responding quicker.

The elevators in some buildings are managed by a computer that parks and unparks elevators and sends multiples to the same floor based on demand.

 

[pixiewings71]

The same reason these people stand on the street corner and push the walk button over and over and over and over......LOL

 

[amberg@eastlink.ca]

what about when youre trying to get off the elevator and people waiting for it crowd in front of it blocking you from getting out. or they just stand there expecting you to what pass through them as if youre a ghost? common sense people move out of the way, let the people on it get off, then you can get on...much easier when the elevators empty than full and those peeps are trying to leave.