At View Towers elevators there’s a couple fascinating
recurring phenomena. People will be
waiting to go up. An elevator will arrive
letting people off, with the arrow pointing down. Rather than letting the doors close and
reopen, people will wait until the doors are about to close and then push them
open again and charge in. This of course just results in the doors having to
close and reopen an extra time, because the arrow will only point up once the
door closes entirely (and even this this assumes it’s not going down to one of
the parking levels). So people
consistently guarantee themselves a longer wait to get upstairs by pushing open
doors that are about to reopen again anyway.
A similar thing people do is sometimes they’re press the
down and up buttons because they think the elevator will arrive sooner. It doesn’t speed things up and when the elevator
arrives it will usually show up first as the down elevator, thus meaning you
have to wait for the doors to close and open again before it becomes the up
elevator.
The morale is, sometimes things go faster if you don’t try
to speed things up.
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