Elevator or Stairs

[Muffin 0]

How many floors do you have to be going up before taking the elevator...? Assume the stairway is right next to the elevator.

I work in a 9 story building with double flights for each floor. We have the slowest elevators in the county. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get to work on time on the 6th and having someone get in with me to go to the 2nd floor. But maybe I'm just being self centered again...hence the poll...

[lawrocket 3]

About the only time I consider taking an elevator anymore is anything over about 4 stories, or if I have my hands full.

The Fresno Courthouse has the slowest elevators I have ever seen. Sometimes, they'll have one of them shut down for maintenance or something. If there are a lot of people, I'll take the stairs. Backin February, I did that a couple of times up seven stories carrying three boxes of trial paperwork and exhibits.

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[NWFlyer 2]

Depends ...

how lazy am I feeling?
how much am I carrying?
how safe/sketchy is the building/are the stairs?
what kind of shoes am I wearing?

The office building I'm working in right now, the stairs are emergency only ... you gotta do elevators on a day-to-day basis. Of course, I work on the 11th floor so I don't feel too guilty.

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[Muffin 0]

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Depends ...

how lazy am I feeling?
how much am I carrying?
how safe/sketchy is the building/are the stairs?
what kind of shoes am I wearing?

Well, in my building the stairs are clean and well lit while the elevators are slow and shakey. You'd be either an overpaid faculty member, an underpaid staffer, or an 18-22 year old undergrad . Its Davis, so youre most likely wearing sandals.

[NWFlyer 2]

Okay, then it really comes down to questions 1 & 2.

Most circumstances, I'd say 2-3 flights, I'll walk.

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[psipike02 0]

Nothing makes me more mad when people take the elevator (at school and at work) from the first floor to the second floor.

Ok, if you have a disability thats cool...but if you're healthy...no excuse...i mean honestly walk up the stairs..

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[popsjumper 2]

1 and no guilt at all.

So you say walk 1 floor, the next guy says you're an asshole for not walking 2, the next guy says you're an asshole for not walking 3....get it?

You're the elevator nazi?

1 - that's what the elevator is for;using it for ALL the floors is legit.

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[kingbunky 3]

depends on several factors, but generally it's walk up one or down two.

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[Muffin 0]

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You're the elevator nazi?

No, no...my neighbor is the Elevator Nazi throwing dirty looks and hitting the call cancel button. I'm the passive aggressive elevator critic that complains to the folks on dz.com rather than sucking it up and taking the stairs every time...I try...but those 100 degree valley days scream elevator.

[pincheck 0]

ask for a transfer to a single story building

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[LisaM 0]

I used to live on the 7th floor... took the stairs regularily... now, due to my knees getting old before their time, I crawl up my stairs at home! I wish I had an elevator in my house!

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[shropshire 0]

Only use the lift if I have no choice or carrying stuff up/down many floors.

I never use the moving walk ways at airports. They is for lazy peeps.

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[NWFlyer 2]

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I never use the moving walk ways at airports. They is for lazy peeps.

Or for people who want to move more quickly. I'll get on them if I can see that everyone who is on them is not just standing there like lumps ... if there's a clear path for me to walk across the moving walkway, I'm there.

(That's a pet peeve on escalators and moving walkways ... walk left stand right, people!).

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[JohnRich 4]

One problem is that many office buildings have the stairwell doors locked so that you can't get onto the floors - they're only used for emergency exits. It's some kind of security thing.

I usually dicover this after climbing four stories of stairs, only to be locked out, and then have to go back down to the 1st floor and wait for the elevator anyway.

Grrr...

[AggieDave 6]

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Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get to work on time on the 6th and having someone get in with me to go to the 2nd floor.

Something that might help is a little work around that a lot of elevators have. Press your floor button and the door closed button at the same time. With a lot of elevators that will allow you to pass other floors in which people have pressed the elevator button. Obviously it doesn't work if other floors were pressed in the elevator, but it might cut down on some of your time.

It has seemed to work for me on Otis Elevators and Dover Elevators .

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[eeneR 3]

Depends...most of the time I just take the stairs....but if im hauling equipment, not gonna risk falling down them.

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