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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.

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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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>_>

*Pulls out vuvuzela*

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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.

Radharc na Sleibhte

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

:mad:

+1
You can't say you have cracking tits and just take that back.
:mad::(

Abi

I find lip-locking with them kills the awkward silence.

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fonecrusher1 wrote: »

It depends. Minstrel27 are you female?

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Yes. I have cracking tits.

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Really?

Minstrel27 wrote: »

No.

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

:mad:

I chortled :pac:

Elenxor

Michellenman wrote: »

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

It happened in Mount Carmel Maternity Hospital 12 years ago:D

[Deleted User]

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

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.

Was it a "hotel"?

Deus Ex Machina

How lacking in basic social skills do you have to be for a situation such as this to be awkward? What exactly is the source of awkwardness? Things like this always annoy me, same thing with people who race through conversations to avoid that "awkward" silence, pathetic.

BumbleB

I Avoid awkward moments in a lift , stairs all the way.

CrazyRabbit

(Sorry about the ****é quality. It's the best version I could find)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPP8nMsPQwQ

ordinary_girl

On several occassion in a job I used to be in if someone I wasn't fond of got in the lift I'd all of a sudden lift up my phone and get out of the lift acting like I had some important phone call to take that couldn't possibly be taken while I was in the lift. And then I'd just use the stairs.

In fact, the number one way to avoid such situations is to use the stairs, so even if you see someone you don't like it's only a brief encounter and you can pretend you never even saw each other!

InkSlinger67

Seems to be a lot of fart related solutions to the lift conundrum here. I just stand there peacefully until it reaches my required floor

I heard a great one there the other day as I was getting off on a floor, another guy who was leaving with me said to two old ladies waiting "JESUS!!! We've been in there for the past four hours!!! Pure hell!!!"

I think they took the stairs afterwards! :pac:

Wolfe Tone

When someone else gets on the lift I always say:

Good morning Mr Tyler..... Going down?
Then erupt into a booming air guitar accompanied rendition of Love in an Elevator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Yrhv33Zb8