Is it breaking the rules when the rules are not written
down, when no committee or convention has conviened to determine these are the
rules? If they are not written down,
posted for all to see, or available in some format as in an instruction manual,
is it breaking still breaking the rules?
Case in point. What I
call elevator ettiquite.
These rules are followed by all who ride together in
elevators, pre-established by some social force of nature, not written or
explained to the participants.
When you get an on elevator and it’s empty you step in turn
and face the front, select the floor you want and either stand on that side or
be preemptive and move to the back or the otherside in case somebody else
happens to board the elevator.
One note here is that an empty elevator with just one person
or a couple who knows each other is a funny thing because people realize they
are alone and get stupid. This can be
testified to by the multitude of security personnel who watch elevator security
cameras.
The fun and rules begin when more than one person is riding
in an elevator who are previously aquainted with each other.
You’re on a elevator and the door opens and another person
enters the elevator. They will push
their button, if you are on the button side they will move to the other
side. If you are in the back of the car
or on the side opposite the buttons they will stay on the button side or move
to the back.
Everybody faces the front of the car. You equally subdivide the space of the car in
order to share the space with the other riders.
This dividing of space, sharing the button space or being
socially open and trusting enough to ask someone else to push the button for
the floor you want.
The title of the post was about Breaking the Rules.
Ways to do this would be to reach into people space to pucsh
your floor button, and to stand in the absolute center of the car facing the
rear of the car with your back to the doors.
This violates about every rule of elevator ettiquite and
rules! People may not even realize what
you’re doing wrong but you will distrub everybody in the elevator for this
social misbehavior and blantant nonconformity.
People will bolt off the elevator even if it isn’t their floor. People will mess with the bags or stuff they carrying. They will not make eye contact with you. Most will not even realize what it is exactly
that you are doing that is making them so uncomfortable.
I love identifying these areas of social conformity and
unwritten rules that society follows just so I can subtly go against the
conventional way just to screw with people.
It’s harmeless fun and messing with peoples minds without letting them
know how your messing with them.
It is a lot nicer than stopping the one of three of the only
registers open at Walmart, of Mc Donalds during a lunch rush while they have to
request a manger because you asked if they take Hawiaiian Money? I’ve done this!
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