Talking in elevators

magicianz

Whats up with the whole thing that people barely talk in elevators?

phasers

I don't know, I take the stairs. Maybe it's the sense that a piece of wire is the only thing between them and death?

Sleipnir

Well, if you're on your own there's nobody to talk to.

ibarelycare

I prefer smiling widely at people and holding eye contact with them until they get uncomfortable.

petes

It isn't too often you are in such a confined space with someone you don't know so I suppose that has something to do with it.

Saibh

They have no where to escape to if you start talking in a elevator or likewise you have no where to escape to

funk-you

Dunno, maybe because you're in a confined space and feel trapped. I usually just like to 'lay one' just before i get out of the elevator though.

-Funk

Porkpie

What can you talk about in an elevator? You're only in there a short while anyway, what's the point in striking up conversation?

AnonoBoy

They're not talking because if they open their mouth they're afraid they'll breathe in the fumes from your incessant farting.

big b

Maybe the people in lifts are worried about talking to Americanised rebels.

Mossy Monk

If I am in an elevator with someone I know then I will talk. If I don't know the persons there with me then whats the point in striking up a 10 second conversation.

Joey the lips

Next time your in a lifr. Talk to your mate, say "Ya me son has chicken pox. I know I will get it next i am reefing all morning. Then roll up tyour sleeve and show him a pox mark which is not there of course. Guaranteed you will have plenty of room in the lift.:D

Captain-America

What you have to do is step into the elevator and face the other people in the elevator. Now that's creepy.

johnny_knoxvile

ibarelycare wrote: »

I prefer smiling widely at people and holding eye contact with them until they get uncomfortable.

is that before or after you farted?

stiff kitten

suppose why would you talk to people you just encounter for a minute unless it was a really hot day and decided to comment on the weather or if there was a cute little toddler looking at you and i might say something

i kissed a guy before...ah no...that just happens in hollywood!

the silence is only as awkward as you make it....
when i was young i used to burst out laughing........

LD 50

Its like talking in the jacks. YOU JUST DON'T DO IT!!!

fly_agaric

magicianz wrote: »

Whats up with the whole thing that people barely talk in elevators?

Maybe they just don't want to talk to you?

It can't help when people indicate they want the ground floor and you push '1'.

xOxSinéadxOx

I thought this thread was going to be how weird it is when people just randomly talk to you in an elevator and I was going to be like yeah they always do it in cork!

Cianos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn4La6FnHmY

Maddison

No one talks in elevators cause they are small & everyone can smell what they last had in their mouth...............

emeraldstar

Sleipnir wrote: »

Well, if you're on your own there's nobody to talk to.

Hmm, maybe that's why the mirrors are there.

SoupyNorman

Hey stop wearing Levis and eating apple pie and worshiping Jesus and being all round American,


They are called LIFTS.

stiff kitten

personally, id find it weird if someone started looking at themselves in the mirror throughout the lift journey(ha ha!)...id just feel like looking at them to see what they're doing...

emeraldstar

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I thought this thread was going to be how weird it is when people just randomly talk to you in an elevator and I was going to be like yeah they always do it in cork!

Cork people are odd. They don't count.

trout

I rarely talk in lifts ... it takes all my concentration not to scream at how WRONG it feels to be in a metal coffin that smells of arse

the_syco

I find the worst is holding in farts.

3rd floor.

It's not the easist.

2nd floor.

You know it's dying to get out

1st floor.

Ah, FFS!

Ground floor.

Thank god. Doors open, and you, and everyone else runs in. Lift doors close.

...and release the FAAAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTT ! ! !

Joey the lips

emeraldstar wrote: »

Cork people are odd. They don't count.

They very weird, they dont spell either!

magicianz

emeraldstar wrote: »

Cork people are odd. They don't count.

Being a corkonian i must agree with you :-D

Ruu_Old

A good part of my day is spent in a lift, we have one for staff only so a good part of the time it is empty. I take the stairs when I'm not pushing a book cart around because it is too long to wait for the damn thing anyway. I'm just civil if I meet someone.

trout

Ruu wrote: »

I'm just civil

Hah! A likely story :cool:

ejmaztec

Just push yourself against the side of the lift and say to the others "Jesus, did you hear that?" and start screaming. Don't stop screaming until you reach your floor, then calmly walk out as if nothing had happened. The paramedics will take care of the heart-attack victims left behind.

*giggles*

Captain-America wrote: »

What you have to do is step into the elevator and face the other people in the elevator. Now that's creepy.

Or.... you could stand without speaking or moving in the corner, facing in the wall without ever getting off. Then when you do eventually get off, try to open the doors (a few grunts can only help you here) and act embarrassed when they open themselves:o

Poor Uncle Tom

Just loud enough for all to hear..........."but, I don't want to kill them all..":D

stovelid

Hate lifts. Much rather take the stairs.

Max Power1

AnonoBoy wrote: »

They're not talking because if they open their mouth they're afraid they'll breathe in the fumes from your incessant farting.

Haha lol i thought i was the only one that did that. Its something about the confined space that makes it like shooting fish in a barrel.

dylano_k

When i was a courier i was in lifts 10-20 times a day and the awkward silences are mad the people could be having great convo on the way to the lift but when they get into the box of silence...they just go blank, maybe they should stop playing the angelus in the lift??

5318008!

A lift is the perfect place for a danger ****.

Poor Uncle Tom

5318008! wrote: »

A lift is the perfect place for a danger ****.

but, won't the driver throw you out..?

Carsinian Thau

magicianz wrote: »

Whats up with the whole thing that people barely talk in elevators?

We're too busy analysing your behaviour. Isn't it obvious, subject 24601?