If I ruled the world #5,233

Elevators would be prohibited to stop just one floor.

It agitates me greatly when I’m just trying to get to my floor, and the elevator abruptly stops on floor two, and then an asshole gets on and pushes the button to go to floor three.  Or vice-versa, while going down.  Actually slightly more, while going down.  More than agitation, it’s really sad.  The elevator for just one floor?  Yeah, that should be illegal.

I have to imagine many people are aware of this too.  Otherwise, you wouldn’t get those people who make sheepish remarks and the insincere “sorry” with a bashful smirk on their face.  Don’t apologize, stop being so lazy and go take the fucking stairs.  It’s just one floor.

Obviously, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge that there are a few people out there that have legitimate excuses, being handicapped, amputees, paraplegics, etc, etc.  To these people, I would decree that they would have key cards that allowed the exception of one-floor stoppage, but only them.  And those who tried to abuse the privilege and tried to get out with them, I would like to see the super-lasers from the Resident Evil movies engage promptly after the handicapped person got off the elevator to deter any lazy fucks from sneaking through at the risk of unfortunate amputations.

The saddest thing is that if this shit were true, I’m fairly positive that there would be people who would be degenerate enough to deliberately go up three floors, and then go down two floors, just to get around taking the stairs.  At the very first instance of this kind of abuse, I would adjust that elevators automatically return to the ground level after its highest ascent by default, and would-be abusers would have to wait to summon the elevator back up.  And then, I’d decree that all elevators only go down to the ground floor, unless coincidentally summoned by someone else who happens to be going down, which provides the only remaining opportunity for a lazy fuck to be a lazy fuck.  Because seriously, going down stairs is nothing, and if you have qualms with that, you really shouldn’t deserve to live.

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