# Elevator High Jinx **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053 "2016-01-13T18:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/1 "2016-01-13T18:52:17Z")
Me, 49 year old office drone going to the 4th floor of my building. As I get in the elevator, scruffy 20s guy, reeking of pot going to upper floor (there’s a mortgage something or other there). Guy reeks of pot, I’m guessing he’s a messenger or something, hits the wrong button, then hits his button. Then gets off when the elevator stops my floor, but has to rush to get back in the elevator because he’s going to the 11th floor. Lord knows I was that guy most of my 20s, wake and bake kind of stumbling through the day, so I know what I have to do. Just as the doors are closing I look in the elevator and say, “everyone knows your high.” I bet he’s still trying to get someone to believe him that it really happened to him today. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/2 "2016-01-13T20:10:06Z")
His high _what_? Poodle? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/3 "2016-01-13T20:12:29Z")
One reason I can’t get on board with the legalization of marijuana is that I can’t stand the smell of it, and I hate the contact high I get from being in a stoner’s presence. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/4 "2016-01-13T20:17:57Z")
Damn, your/you’re typo. Still when spoken, it doesn’t matter. As a former pothead, the best thing about legalization is messing with potheads. Although this happened in Maryland, not DC so still illegal. I just remember how paranoid I’d get when high (it’s one of the reasons I stopped) and I get a chuckle out of the idea of someone saying that to me. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/5 "2016-01-13T20:59:51Z")
“Of course I’m high, man, we’re on the 11th floor.” ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/6 "2016-01-13T21:02:53Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > One reason I can’t get on board with the legalization of marijuana is that I can’t stand the smell of it, and **I hate the contact high I get from being in a stoner’s presence**. Wait, what? That’s… not a thing that can happen. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/7 "2016-01-13T22:45:12Z")
If some lady smoked a whole lot and then you motor boated her I could see it happening. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/8 "2016-01-13T23:53:58Z")
I’ll take weed reek over tobacco reek every time. And I would totally say that to the dude, too. Laughing all the way. Messing with potheads is fun. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/9 "2016-01-14T00:07:33Z")
There is a possibility that I’m bored in my work. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/10 "2016-01-14T14:04:54Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Damn, your/you’re typo. Still when spoken, it doesn’t matter. Huh, weird. I say the words “you’re” and “your” differently. Must be a regionalism. You’re = rhymes with “fewer” Your = rhymes with “pour” ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/11 "2016-01-14T14:21:47Z")
Oh, and just to stay on topic, I have my own MPSIMS about elevator hijinks. It was the late 90’s, middle of the winter. A friend and I had gone downtown to see a late night movie, and parked in a parkade (high-rise parking lot) with an elevator. After the movie let out around 1:30am we were riding the parkade elevator down to our car. In the course of being hyperactive teens, we noticed that the elevator had a bit of a bounce to it if you jumped or shifted your weight. Well, game on, mommafarker! We were jumping up and down in unison and getting that elevator to really bounce and fly around the shaft as it descended. Riiight up until the point where we bounced so hard that we tripped the safety mechanism that prevents a falling car in the case of broken cables. Didn’t actually break the cables, just tripped the safety mechanism. Let me tell you, it is _difficult_ to get the elevator company to jump to respond when they know that this is completely your teenaged dumbass fault. Unfortunately the elevator was in an unheated parkade, we were dressed very lightly, and it was the middle of the winter in Edmonton, Alberta. Were we ever glad to see the elevator tech when he showed up about 2 hours later. Fin. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/12 "2016-01-14T14:30:18Z")
Not that you are going to do that again but a stuck elevator is considered an emergency and a call to the fire department will get a rescue squad out there pronto to get you out. One of the most common fire calls you hear in most cities. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/13 "2016-01-14T21:03:38Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > If some lady smoked a whole lot and then you motor boated her I could see it happening. Dude, when motor boating you’re not supposed to go all the way into the lungs! It’s strictly a surface activity. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-high-jinx/743053/14 "2016-01-15T16:17:29Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > Wait, what? > > That’s… not a thing that can happen. If true, it could’ve saved me a lot of money.