Give it a rest
Posted in DEBATES, IDEAS, ETC. on July 18th, 2008 by Sinan
Why why why why oh why do we push the poor elevator button more than once? The light is there to let us know that the button and the elevator are working on our request, trying to climb multiple floors to greet us at our current floor. It doesn’t matter if we hit the button once or 50 times. The button will not turn into a portal device nor the elevator will decide to move faster. We built the high rises, we built the elevators and the buttons. We should know better! There are no emotions. We can’t expect human behavior. It is mechanics. You make a request, you get the same result every time unless you play with the programming. So next time, give it a rest. Hit the thing once and try to find other things to play with while the elevator works its way up or down to you.
