Hong Kong, being the vertical city that it is, has more elevators than staircases in most buildings. Stairwells at office towers are wired to Emergency Exit doors, so unless one wants to hear the blaring cacophony that is the alarm and a truckload of shrill Cantonese expletives, elevators are the only way to traverse floors.
I had to use the elevators quite a few times today and the experience made me recall similar situations in Hyderabad, Mooresville and Manhattan, during my living stints in these cities.
Hence, the experiment: How many people stand right at the door of an opening elevator and then have to move back because the people inside need to get out first?
Result of the observation:
Approximately half of you are morons.
Statistical Data:
Number of times door was observed: 13
Total number of people waiting outside: ~78 (maybe you should try counting everybody outside accurately while not appearing odd/suspicious)
Number of people, being morons, waiting just outside the door: 40
Set of ordered pairs (a,b), where a is the number of morons and b is the total number of people waiting, for the 13 observed instances is given by: {(4,8), (5,7), (1/4), (4,6), (3,7), (2,4), (2,5), (4,6), (2,5), (2,4), (3,7), (4,9), (4,6)}
Overall Percentage: ~51%
Average of instance percentages: ~50.5%
Inference:
So while one half of the population bears the common sense to realize that an elevator might, just might, have some people actually inside who need to get out, the other half stands glorious witness to my preference for technology, because technology makes more sense than people.
Closing Comments:
To the idiots just standing there, akimbo: Please make out with something that isn’t the elevator door.
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