Right, we’ve gone over this. If you’re carrying loads of stuff, or are on crutches, you are not a lazy ass for taking the elevator to move up or down a floor. If you live in some creepy building where the stairs are on the other side of town, or whatever else that actually makes taking the elevator easier, then you are not a lazy ass for using the elevator.
If the stairs are right fucking there, and you’re not injured, you’re not disabled, you’re not moving a sofa, you’re not carrying groceries, and you’re going from floor 1 to floor 2, you’re being goddamn lazy! Why is this even open to discussion? Because people don’t like Chessic’s tone? Fuck me running, already!
ETA: In my old apartment, the stairs were indeed on Mars, but that alone wouldn’t have been an issue. It was the locks. If I lived on the second floor of CS’s building, and the stairway doors were locked all the time, I would use the elevator if I had my usual day’s load of stuff to bring in. On the other hand going down in the morning, presumably not needing to unlock the doors, I’d walk.
In some buildings, though, even going down walking means you have to use a key at some point.
It’s too much hassle. That’s why the elevators are there.
Because it’s NOT “lazy and inconsiderate” to use a device as it was built to be used. I (hypothetically) pay my rent (actually I own a house nowadays, but still) and will ride the elevator whenever, and to what the hell-ever floor I want. You have yet to demonstrate that it’s “inconsiderate” to ride the elevator less than some mystery-number of floors.
And if that means you precious little gumdrops will have to wait an extra 23 seconds while I ride up one floor because I feel like doing it? Somehow, gosh, I’ll bet you survive.
What about all the people on lower floors who have to wait for the elevator to come back down each time one of the inconsiderate high-floor douchebags decides to ride all the fuck way up?
There should be a corral for all the high-floor fucks and they shouldn’t be allowed to take the elevator in less than groups of three or more.
I think you’re just jealous, because, well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
(I admit the line about the pie doesn’t really fit – I’m sure you’ve had more than your fair share)
Because, you fucking twerp, it’s not “lazy” just because you decided it is. Don’t like people who don’t meet your made-up standards riding the elevator? Buy your own private one or pay the portion of their rent that goes to it.
And hell even if you’re right and I am lazy, you’re a judgmental, shrill moron, but I can always get off my lazy ass.
Yes–it’s a play on a line from Winston Churchill. So…see…that’s why I phrased it that way.
(Hey Olde Timer Dopers: It’s been years since I’ve been in a pit-thread. Please tell me that this gnat is just our current lowest common denominator…sort of a whinier Wildest Bill or something…should I be putting in footnotes or something to help him with the big words?)
Oh, no worries. I’m smart and articulate too. But I’ll freely admit to thinking it’s fucking hilarious to see a bunch of lazy ham-monsters calling out the “whiny judgmental assholes” (have you even read any of the threads in the pit?) and fighting for acceptance over their elevator usage policies.
Besides, I’ve been making fat jokes since somewhere around page 2, so you’re a little late to the party. Maybe you should try getting in better shape so you can keep up.
Wait, so because a device exists, you are incapable of being lazy for using it, no matter what?
Great, it is well within your rights to use the elevator to move one floor, and you are fucking lazy and inconsiderate of other tenants if you choose to do so. I can call a cab next door or across the street if I want, because that is what cabs are for, and I am paying the fare, so therefore I am not lazy or rude? Just because you can utilitze a service and pay for it, doesn’t mean you’re not being inconsiderate. How rude is it of me to hail a cab to take me across the street? Not at all because cabs are there? Not at all because I paid him, even if it got in the way of real fares? Fucking walk across the street already, and stop wasting everybody’s time.
Am I rude if a new line at the grocery store opens, and I rush past the guy buying beans and Snapple with my two carts full of food? He’ll live even if he has to wait for me, and neither of us is paying a line premium, so it’s perfectly fine to make people with minimal items wait behind me.
I don’t know, maybe to you, just because you can do something, it’s not dick behavior.
Oh great, you’re a dumb ass and don’t understand what being rude is. If someone jumps ahead of you in traffic and drives 10mph slower than you are, are you going to die? I don’t know, maybe if you’re going to the hospital and need to be there NOW. Is the person being inconsiderate? Yes.
Appeal to the consensus: check.
Appeal to status as “old-timer”: check.
Calling poster dumb: check.
Yep, welcome to the machine.
Also, it says a lot to me that after years of absence from the pit, you have risen up, like a spectre from the deep, to strike fear and terror into the hearts of those who dare to question the habits of lardburglars.
**FATMOUSE HAS NO PATIENCE BUT MUCH HUNGER.
FATMOUSE TAKES UMBRAGE AT THE SIGHT OF YOUR SMALL TORSO AND WEAK FLACCID LIMBS. FATMOUSE IS NEVER FOOLED BY IMITATORS.
FATMOUSE WILL SPEAK AND YOU WILL LISTEN. FATMOUSE LIKES TO EAT. FATMOUSE DOES NOT CARE FOR YOUR MONEY OR YOUR SOCIAL STATUS OR YOUR STUPID ORDERED LIVES. FATMOUSE CARES ONLY FOR YOUR CARBOHYDRATES. FATMOUSE MUST FEED.**
Yawn. Another douchebag who thinks that because he’s universally disliked, it’s because of the clique or hivemind or the machine. Wake me if you have something new to say.
Nope–not if they’re going the speed limit. If they are going 10mph below the speed limit, yeah–rude/inconsiderate. But taking the elevator one floor is like merging into traffic at the speed limit and the op is like the guy who wants to go 10mph above the limit and is pissed that you’re not.
Some of us wish we had stairs. I live in a single story house and work at a single story office. Both places have a gazebo that has one step, which I use for step aerobics. The only place I get serious stairs are at church, and I take them every time over the elevator. Every step I can take helps me lose weight.
You live on the 20th floor, and don’t take advantage of the best free cardio workout on the planet? You may be already skinny, but is there a better way to keep in shape?
As opposed to your theory where you can decree that anything you disapprove of is “rude” by fiat–no guidelines, just whatever you in particular happen to decree at that particular moment.