Elevator

It is a truth universally acknowledged (among McGraw-Hill employees) that if you do not hit the elevator button to select your floor the doors will close more quickly. Once the doors have closed it is then appropriate to hit the button…

Whether or not the doors actually close faster if you wait to press a button is debatable…however, there are those who are FIRM believers. If you happen to get in the elevator with such a person and ignorantly hit the button before the doors have closed, you may expect to receive looks of disgust, pity (at not knowing the secret), annoyance or any other such sentiment. It really is quite comical. Sometimes you will have an elevator filled with 6-7 people who have yet to hit a button, all waiting in eager anticipation for the doors to close, only to have their hopes of a quick closing dashed to pieces by some young buck who comes jaunting in and immediately presses a button…the veterans groan within themselves and resent the 30-second (if that) delay…haha. Too funny.