[ALUmnus]

This is great bathroom reading. An article about elevators.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008 ... ntPage=all

Did you know:

In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer. Elevator design is rooted in deception—to disguise not only the bare fact of the box hanging by ropes but also the tethering of tenants to a system over which they have no command.

[adam42381]

That was a great read. Who knew that a wordy article in the New Yorker about elevators would be so entertaining?

[Liberty4Life]

I got stuck in an elevator the other day... it wasn't pleasant.

[RubberMallet]

i thought this would be about one of the greatest rap songs ever.