This is not at all surprising. And yet I chafe at the idea that my suspicions have been confirmed. The ‘Door Close’ button on most elevators isn’t even wired up. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/595/do-close-door-buttons-on-elevators-ever-actually-work.
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That’s ok, all the emergency call buttons have been outsourced to run through off-shore support companies..
Please do the necessary and get me off this damn elevator!
Just be thankful it isn’t a Wonkavator. You’d be going through the roof..
Glass elevators and I are not friends in any context. I *do not* want to see how high or fast I am traveling.
So it’s a placebo button.
In contrast, glass elevators are the only way Abigail will travel in them these days….. Get stuck much uncle Nick?
Only when I ride with Abigail.
Do the needful.
Damn!
Next investigation: why the emergency button is always the one that looks most enticing to children and also happens to be the only one my three-year-old son can reach.
I got stuck on the elevator once in my life… After pushing the emergency button the voice on the other end asked where I was… I laughed and said the elevator… They then asked which elevator.
There is only one in the building… Hmmm. J