Awkward lift moments

fonecrusher1

What do you do for those few moments of awkwardness when travelling in lifts with complete strangers?
Or even worse, you hop into a lift at the workplace & you realise at the last second the only person there is someone you can't stand & the feeling is mutual.

This used to happen to me a lot at a place i used to work. Very annoying.

Dravokivich

Hum to the elevator music.

Nervous Wreck

Fart loud, laugh louder.

Duggy747

You're on your own in the lift.

Hot girl comes in.

Somebody farts.

It wasn't you.

Wazdakka

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Minstrel27

Stand and say nothing. It's not that hard really.

Cookie_Monster

try and push a button for a different floor without getting noticed, so hopefully they'll have to stop somewhere they didn't need to after you got off.

Boom_Bap

http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/FunThingsToDoInAnElevator.htm

My personal favorite is not facing the conventional way, stand with your back to the doors, makes life pretty awkward for everyone.

eightyfish

Reminds me of this:

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

fonecrusher1

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Stand and say nothing. It's not that hard really.

Woah you got me there. Yowsers!!! You are so cool & awesome. awhh man im going to remember that. High 5!

Did you make this face;:rolleyes: as you typed that?

ballsymchugh

was in the library in college waiting for the lift with a bunch of guys from my class. 2 lifts arrive together so they all bundled into one, leaving me to go in the other lift which just had 2 girls in it, one of whom was gorgeous.
for the 20 seconds it took the lift to get to the ground floor, all i could hear was the guys in the other lift shouting 'ballsy is a prick, you bollox' etc. all i could do was bite my lip and not burst out laughing!

wijam

That Dara O'Briain click reminded me of the one below - would love to try this one in work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSPUDpe0U8

stovelid

I once got into a lift in work years ago, reeking of drink from the night before and our CEO was in the lift, visiting from the states.

Minstrel27

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Woah you got me there. Yowsers!!! You are so cool & awesome. awhh man im going to remember that. High 5!

Did you make this face;:rolleyes: as you typed that?

What's your problem?

Was I supposed to be witty when replying to your super awesome thread? It is a shame that you didn't follow this code of practice yourself.

Fittle

Always take out the moby and pretend to text.....happens every day in my job...one particular guy (who probably feels more awkward than me) actually stands with his back to the other person in the lift and hums....
Hmmm..hmm..hmm

Dancor

While not paying attention you get off at the wrong floor, by the time you realise your mistake the lift door is closing and everybody begins laughing while you try to cathh it.

RachPie

Yes. And you suddenly become really interested in the buttons all of a sudden, or whip your phone out.

Abrasax

I always smile at the other people and say hello, try and get a bit craic going.

pearliefan

Dravokivich wrote: »

Hum to the elevator music.

This one is my favourite. I'm actually laughing at the thought!

mathie

Was in a lift once with my hot friend.
This guy got in and we were going to get it on with him until we heard his mates in the next lift acting like kids.

thebigbiffo

someone farts in a lift, gets off, you call it, step in, almost gag with the smell, next floor up/down hot girl gets in and you end up blubbering 'it wasn't me'...no one ever believes ya

BBDBB

get a bit of an auld sing song going ya bunch of miseries:D

Banned Account

Fittle wrote: »

Always take out the moby ...one particular guy (who probably feels more awkward than me) actually stands with his back to the other person in the lift ...
Hmmm

:eek:where the feck do you work

Abrasax

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Fart loud, laugh louder.

The ould' farts can lead to awkwardness...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu6QBoDPw9U

Radharc na Sleibhte

I don't think Ive ever been in a lift for more than four stops, so I just walk in with my bottle of water and throw it about a bit.

Banned Account

I satyed on the 42nd floor of a Shanghai Hotel for a few days and the lift always had a really old western guy with his hands on the ass of a really young chinese girl - every friggin' time i got in (different people - same craic) they were long and awkward lift moments.

no1beemerfan

I jump up and down to make it go faster. Did you ever jump really high in a lift when its going down? Deadly craic!

EL_Loco

People talking to you while you're still on the lift as they got off and the doors are closing, Jesus, get it all out of the way in the lift, say goodbye and walk out. lift Protocol fail.

and what's worse, your response while still in the lift is something woeful like "heeeeh ok". You know sound like an idiot and the people still in the lift are only dying to repeat back to you "heeeeeh ok, hahaha" bastids!!!!

love lifts.

Stench Blossoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZaWe3elBmE

Bajingo

I've never heard elevator music:(...so I make my own after nodding politely to the other users..

alexa5x5

Ive always wanted to get in a lift and start screaming and generally acting like a complete mentalist to see what would happen.

Ruu_Old

When Dom Jolly gets on. :eek:

Elenxor

I was in a lift full of people once, I noticed the Makers Name on a Metal plate next to the buttons 'Shindler'
I burst out laughing and said Shindler's Lift......No one laughed or looked at me. Oh Gawd!!!!

Dancor

When somebody gets on with a bigger bottle of Deep Riverock.

anniehoo

Fittle wrote: »

Always take out the moby and pretend to text.....happens every day in my job...one particular guy (who probably feels more awkward than me) actually stands with his back to the other person in the lift and hums....
Hmmm..hmm..hmm

We have one of them too. Hes unreal. Actually makes a point of getting in the lift and turning his back and hmmmms away to himself He also talks to himself when hes at his computer...:p
Do we work in the same place Fittle ha?

Michellenman

Elenxor wrote: »

I was in a lift full of people once, I noticed the Makers Name on a Metal plate next to the buttons 'Shindler'
I burst out laughing and said Shindler's Lift......No one laughed or looked at me. Oh Gawd!!!!

Are you me?! :eek: I did this like 3 weeks ago

Abi

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Woah you got me there. Yowsers!!! You are so cool & awesome. awhh man im going to remember that. High 5!

Did you make this face;:rolleyes: as you typed that?

Minstrel27 wrote: »

What's your problem?

Was I supposed to be witty when replying to your super awesome thread? It is a shame that you didn't follow this code of practice yourself.

I'd love to see these two get stuck in a lift..

Rogue-Trooper

A few weeks ago I had a 'road rage' incident with a 'middle-aged lady' who tried to prevent me from turning left off O'Connell Street to the Arnott's car park (she illegally flew up the inside in the bus lane - she was at fault but blasted her horn at me. The cheek!). She also turned into the car park so when we stopped at the queue for the ticket barrier I got out and "questioned her driving ettiquette and the source of her driving licence" (I might have suggested that she obtained it in a packet of cornflakes......:rolleyes:). I drove off feeling a lot better for my outbust!

Fast-forward to 5 minutes later after I had parked on the top floor and was taking the lift down when it stops on the floor below and who should get on.................

Lets just say it was the longest descent in a lift ever with just the 2 of us and a deafening silence!:o

Professey Chin

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

A few weeks ago I had a 'road rage' incident with a 'middle-aged lady' who tried to prevent me from turning left off O'Connell Street to the Arnott's car park (she illegally flew up the inside in the bus lane - she was at fault but blasted her horn at me. The cheek!). She also turned into the car park so when we stopped at the queue for the ticket barrier I got out and "questioned her driving ettiquette and the source of her driving licence" (I might have suggested that she obtained it in a packet of cornflakes......:rolleyes:). I drove off feeling a lot better for my outbust!

Fast-forward to 5 minutes later after I had parked on the top floor and was taking the lift down when it stops on the floor below and who should get on.................

Lets just say it was the longest descent in a lift ever with just the 2 of us and a deafening silence!:o

Should have kicked her in the face.

We miss him

fonecrusher1

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

A few weeks ago I had a 'road rage' incident with a 'middle-aged lady' who tried to prevent me from turning left off O'Connell Street to the Arnott's car park (she illegally flew up the inside in the bus lane - she was at fault but blasted her horn at me. The cheek!). She also turned into the car park so when we stopped at the queue for the ticket barrier I got out and "questioned her driving ettiquette and the source of her driving licence" (I might have suggested that she obtained it in a packet of cornflakes......:rolleyes:). I drove off feeling a lot better for my outbust!

Fast-forward to 5 minutes later after I had parked on the top floor and was taking the lift down when it stops on the floor below and who should get on.................

Lets just say it was the longest descent in a lift ever with just the 2 of us and a deafening silence!:o

Now that would have been the perfect opportunity to interupt the silence with a cheek shuddering fart.

yuloni

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Minstrel27

Abigayle wrote: »

I'd love to see these two get stuck in a lift..

take everything

Abrasax wrote: »

I always smile at the other people and say hello, try and get a bit craic going.

This thread reminds me of Kevin Eldon in the Alan Partridge scene (1:15 in).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZspqjtG2k

fonecrusher1

Abigayle wrote: »

I'd love to see these two get stuck in a lift..

It depends. Minstrel27 are you female?

NothingMan

Was just about to step out of the lift in my apartment with a mate when I let a nice stinker of a fart "as a present for the next guy" who turner out to be my next door neighbour, who was standing there waiting as the door opened. :cool:

Minstrel27

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

It depends. Minstrel27 are you female?

Yes. I have cracking tits.

fonecrusher1

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Yes. I have cracking tits.

Really?

Minstrel27

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Really?

No.

fonecrusher1

Minstrel27 wrote: »

No.

:mad:

BumbleB

Wazdakka wrote: »

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The vuvuzela seems to be the solution to everything these days.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Elenxor wrote: »

I was in a lift full of people once, I noticed the Makers Name on a Metal plate next to the buttons 'Shindler'
I burst out laughing and said Shindler's Lift......No one laughed or looked at me. Oh Gawd!!!!

Ha brilliant.
There was nobody else on the lift was there?
You said it to yourself didn't you?

I would've lol'd if I was there Elenxor.
How could anybody not laugh?
Unless it was at a Jewish convention or something?
Rabbi Mertzl probably wouldn't find it funny.