The beasts called elevators end up pissing me off every single time. I had rambled about these dumb asses earlier here. Go grab a bite.
If you have read that post, you will know that the ramblings mentioned earlier were particularly about those ill-chipped lifts of that underdeveloped guest house. But now I am convinced these shameless creatures are programmed to torture their inmates.
I mean think about it. What are the decisions these lifeless steel rooms have to make.. (Inspiration)
- Where do the people want to go?
- Where they are and where each floor is?
- What strategy they need to make so that they are cursed the least?
First decision is pretty simple. We make that decision for you, you bugger. You see those glowing numbers on the number pads we keep on pressing one after other? Yeah that is where we want to go. As quick as possible.
Second decision has a whole lot of mechanics behind it. I mean there are some shafts and then there are some holes on some vertical tapes and then there is some counting involved. I would surely like to go in details, but I don’t want to. So I won’t. Visit that inspiration link you see above.
However the part that puzzles me the most is the strategy because that’s when these supposed-to-be angels stop being ones and enter the devil’s land. Now these buggers have to strategise where to go, when to go and how to go. And I absolutely feel that they are not wired to do so. I mean how else can you explain the simplest of the things these dudes screw up.
How many times have you waited for an elevator to scroll right from 50 meters below basement up to the 14th floor when his other buddy is resting right at the 15th floor? Do they have some gentlemen’s agreement where one simply says “Can’t you see sucker I have just finished carrying 6 fat asses up and down thrice between just 2 floors. I am tired now and you can for sure handle these dumbos”.
How many times have you jailed yourself in a jam packed elevator as it drools itself down the shaft stopping and opening at each floor. If you are outside, those seemingly endless few seconds you spend when you apply all your permutation skills to see if you can possibly fit in any of the available gaps inside before giving up are just killing.
There are many other plights of these long travels between floors. But you see the point is the where, when and how part has to be strategised properly.
I will pen down the requirements for you. An elevator, for minimum, has to
- follow quickest path to you and quickest path to where you desire to go.
- open only if it can intake any of the fat asses, close and start the journey as soon as everyone hops on.
- understand when some mischievous fatty calls it, but does not want to hop on.
- not kill my mobile signal.
- close the doors faster so people get less chance to stop the elevator and say the meaningless “S” word again.
These are just a few suggestions that can make this floor travel not a sucking experience after all.
PS: On an unrelated note, why the hell does every single elevator has to have mirrors? Who wrote this unwritten law first? It just gives me one more chance for not letting the elevator know where I want to go and follow a journey to a floor undesired with this lifeless but life sucking beast.
