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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a friend back home who always stood by the button panel in an elevator. Why? "To dodge the hail of bullets intended for me that will kill all of you guys". He said this only half-jokingly. Clearly he watched one too many movies.

Worst part is ever since he said that I do the same thing too. Something my inner 10 year-old boy can't shake.
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ThingsComeAround



Joined: 07 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn. Sorry, OP that you had a bad experience.

I've usually had strange elevator encounters (weird foreigner visiting, some kid/adjosshi spitting all over (I mean EVERYWHERE) inside the compartment.

Next time you experience that, you could just let out a "Ya" so that they at least turn around and notice you. Ride the elevator down with them. Get to know their car so you can watch for them in the future. Smile

Bad behavior is bad behavior. Unfortunately in this country, it isn't about who offends, its about whoever gets angry first loses Embarassed
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DeMayonnaise



Joined: 02 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Illysook wrote:
At The Ohio State University hospitals, there are signs posted by the elevator that tell you to take the stairs if you are going up one floor or down two floors. Korea needs a bunch of those signs.


I'm not surprised people at da OSU are too stupid to figure this out. At Wisconsin the unwritten rule is 5 floors, and everyone knows it. :^)
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Illysook



Joined: 30 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They only have the signs at the hospital so that people from out of state will know how to mind their manners...especially the injured ones fromthat state up north that has 2 parts to it, one of which is shaped like a hand with webbed fingers. they say that it's a "mitten." They seem to get hurt a lot when they come to Ohio and Wisconsin, don't they?
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Koveras



Joined: 09 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, Kool Keith made a song about this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlc0S97KQ4
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samd



Joined: 03 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They have the "Take the Stairs" signs in Korea too, I'd say in the majority of the apartment (not officetel) buildings I've been in.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

People from Ohio talk big up until they go to the D.

I think it's time to bring back the spirit of Stevens T. Mason and have head South for some regime change down there. Our crack forces can be on the outskirts of Sandusky by nightfall. We'll be greeted as liberators. Toledo and Perrysburg already have proven their loyalties- thy support the Big Cats, not the Wahoos.
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Illysook



Joined: 30 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

When Ohio and Michigan were territories there was some kind of small war between the farmers and when the dispute was settled, Ohio got the area where Toledo is and Michigan got the upper peninsula. Clearly, we Ohioans who are now stuck with Toledo, got the raw end of that deal.
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NYC_Gal



Joined: 08 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just discovered another elevator at my train station. I thought that only the main entrance had one. Now I can get my bike over the subway tracks without having to lug the thing (I think that it's made of black holes, it's so heavy) up and down 3 flights of stairs twice a day.

WAHOO!
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BoholDiver



Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even if the subway car is full or the elevator is crowded, a line-up is a line-up. Cutting in line is insulting to those waiting in line and just generally rude. Sense of entitlement.

I walk and stand to block people from cutting in line whenever possible. I don't care about age or status. That's a Korean thing.
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