Using the elevator for 1 floor

[Exterous]

This morning in the parking garage there was a line of people waiting quietly for the elevator on the second floor of the garage. I was down the single flight of stairs and out the door before the elevator even showed up on the second floor. Obviously some people need to wait but I see this kind of thing a lot and I don't get it

 

[cbrunny]

Don't underestimate how fat some people are.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's simple, they all hate their jobs and want to delay getting to work as long as possible.

 

[Cappuccino]

Are you from the US by any chance?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Yeah....even worse that you said you were going down the stairs... I'm assuming the garage is detached from wherever you work and you were trying to get back to the ground floor.

I read that building codes are going to change soon in the US. They're going to start having to use heavier duty freight elevators to avoid liability lawsuits for when the regular elevator would start to fail.

 

[SKORPI0]

Just imagine what if those "fat" people had to use the elevator going 1 floor up.

 

[pmv]

I never use elevators. Unless you are using a wheelchair (or, its an actual bone-fide skyscraper and we are talking 30th floor or above) I don't see why you would. More effort than they are worth (not to mention the one where I am now gets stuck rather frequently). Once lived on a 9th floor and never used the thing even then.

Some Swiss study found that those living above the 10th floor in high-rises had measurably better cardio-vascular health than those on lower floors. Though they don't know if that's due to walking up and down stairs or due to being above the pollution ceiling (and I also wonder if it's a selection-effect - those in poor health maybe don't want to live up there?). Though another study found those on higher floors were much less likely to survive if they _did_ have a heart-attack. Due to the delay in paramedics getting to them.

 

[cbrunny]

I never use elevators. Unless you are using a wheelchair (or, its an actual bone-fide skyscraper and we are talking 30th floor or above) I don't see why you would. More effort than they are worth (not to mention the one where I am now gets stuck rather frequently). Once lived on a 9th floor and never used the thing even then.

Some Swiss study found that those living above the 10th floor in high-rises had measurably better cardio-vascular health than those on lower floors. Though they don't know if that's due to walking up and down stairs or due to being above the pollution ceiling (and I also wonder if it's a selection-effect - those in poor health maybe don't want to live up there?). Though another study found those on higher floors were much less likely to survive if they _did_ have a heart-attack. Due to the delay in paramedics getting to them.

could also be related to socio-economic status. higher up = more expensive which usually = better job, more money, educated, etc.

 

[JimKiler]

I will easily take the stairs for 3 floors or less and while i know people can have medical issues that are not obvious that require them to use the elevator there are too many people in the US who use the elevator by default. Even my co workers who is a muscle-head uses the elevator so i starting giving him a hard time about it. I workout over lunch at my work and afterward I am still warm but use the stairs for 3 flights and will get sweaty by the time i get to the top but i cannot bring myself to be lazy and use the elevator.

OP could make the same argument about people who use the handicap door openers instead of opening it with their arm.

 

[soulcougher73]

I call them "One Floor Fatties".

 

[JimKiler]

I never use elevators. Unless you are using a wheelchair (or, its an actual bone-fide skyscraper and we are talking 30th floor or above) I don't see why you would. More effort than they are worth (not to mention the one where I am now gets stuck rather frequently). Once lived on a 9th floor and never used the thing even then.

Some Swiss study found that those living above the 10th floor in high-rises had measurably better cardio-vascular health than those on lower floors. Though they don't know if that's due to walking up and down stairs or due to being above the pollution ceiling (and I also wonder if it's a selection-effect - those in poor health maybe don't want to live up there?). Though another study found those on higher floors were much less likely to survive if they _did_ have a heart-attack. Due to the delay in paramedics getting to them.

The author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books, Stieg Larsson, died from a heart attack after the elevator to his office went out and he had to walk up the stairs 7 flights. He was also a heavy smoker.

 

[zinfamous]

Taking the elevator up one floor is distasteful enough, but taking it down one floor is a sign of the end times--the end of decency and humanity. The time of reckoning is at hand, and polite society must organize, NOW, and take out as many of these slovenly single-floor-riders as possible, before they overwhelm us with their sloth.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I'm at the age Jim Fixx died. If I make it to my next B-day I will have beaten him and I'm a fat bastard.

 

[Rubycon]

Well if it's from the 8th going down or the 6th going up, you know you may get lucky.
Because Heaven's on the Seventh Floor!

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I would actually fully support a change in which all elevators only stopped every n floors, n > 1. This could be increased (or randomized!) over time to encourage people to just give in and take the stairs.

 

[madoka]

I've once seen a fat woman who parked her car, then saw a closer parking spot open up once she got out. She got back into her car and reparked it to be two car spaces closer to the store. So now nothing surprises me.

 

[herm0016]

only when its raining. there are no interior stairs in my building at work, only exterior.

someone fire that damn architect!

 

[Fardringle]

I use the stairs whenever my knees will let me, but sometimes it's better to wait 30 minutes for a 1 floor elevator ride than it is to walk the stairs and be crippled for the next week.

That, and people are lazy:

 

[fleshconsumed]

I would actually fully support a change in which all elevators only stopped every n floors, n > 1. This could be increased (or randomized!) over time to encourage people to just give in and take the stairs.

Easily defeated by taking elevator up to the 4th floor and then down to the 2nd.

 

[pete6032]

I never use elevators. Unless you are using a wheelchair (or, its an actual bone-fide skyscraper and we are talking 30th floor or above) I don't see why you would. More effort than they are worth (not to mention the one where I am now gets stuck rather frequently). Once lived on a 9th floor and never used the thing even then.

Some Swiss study found that those living above the 10th floor in high-rises had measurably better cardio-vascular health than those on lower floors. Though they don't know if that's due to walking up and down stairs or due to being above the pollution ceiling (and I also wonder if it's a selection-effect - those in poor health maybe don't want to live up there?). Though another study found those on higher floors were much less likely to survive if they _did_ have a heart-attack. Due to the delay in paramedics getting to them.

I work on the 26th floor. Should I take the steps every time I come and go?

 

[thestrangebrew1]

We only have 3 floors in my building and people are constantly waiting for the 1 of the 3 elevators. 3 of them. It's ridiculous. I work on the 2nd floor and only take the elevators when I bring donuts to work.

 

[JulesMaximus]

We have an elevator at work in a building that has all of 2 floors. I see people I work with using the elevator ALL THE TIME. It is the fatties mostly.

I hardly ever use it.

 

[Carson Dyle]

It's the exact same mentality that has people driving around parking lots trying to find the closest space, instead of just parking the damned car and walking an extra fifty feet.

 

[jman19]

Most people are lazy af.

 

[MrSquished]

I've once seen a fat woman who parked her car, then saw a closer parking spot open up once she got out. She got back into her car and reparked it to be two car spaces closer to the store. So now nothing surprises me.

that's royally fucked up