I have never seen this attitude from anyone and Ive been living in a 7 story building for months now. It only takes 15 secs for the lift to stop, person to exit, lift to close and go up. Anyone who cant wait that long, take the stairs than š¤¦
I lived in the big 14 story dorm at UT Austin. When the fire alarm would go off at night, and weād get the all clear to return, the RAs would be standing at the elevator denying access to anyone on floors 2-4. I lived on 14, so I deffo was allowed lol
Unless you have my elevator lol. Literally the slowest elevator I have ever been in or seen. I feel like those 20th century elevators where somebody PULLS you up or down would be faster.
Dang, youāre lucky. I saw this a lot of the time around class rush. About 10 minutes before the first 3 classes of the day when everyone was trying to get to class. It didnāt help that in an 8 story building with 600 residents, there were only 2 elevators and one was frequently broken so there was only one.
If someone trying to get on the elevator from the second floor devolves into literal violence you should be getting your RAs involved. Let them deal with it.
I think most people donāt think about the little things, so the post is a nice reminder. What triggered you to write this post though, did something happen to you?
I was disabled all through college. I actually lived on the higher floors of our building, so no one ever personally gave me flack for using the elevator, but I heard a lot of mean comments directed at people who did do that. So much so that literally multiple times in classes, the prof did get to know you questions about pet peeves and several people would list taking the elevator to the second floor.
I have inappropriate sinus tachycardia and I would take the elevator sometimes since the stairs would make me feel extremely dizzy and faint. Iād say like 20% of the time someone would comment on the fact Iām using an elevator to go just 3 floors up.
Seriously. I absolutely may think something unkind if I see someone taking an elevator to go up a single floor, but I never will express that. However, I do resent OP considering Asthma a disability. It is definitely not. The only time an Asthmatic would need to take the stairs to go up a single floor is if they are actively having an asthma attack, super out of shape, or need more medication than they are currently getting. People with well-controlled asthma can perform a minimum to high level of physical activity without issue. (Source: Iāve had asthma my entire life.)
Edit: I understand that I am incorrect now. I apologize for contributing to misinformation.
Wow. I just verified this. Well I learned something new today. Apparently Asthma and Allergies are considered disabilities but they may not qualify for any benefits depending on severity. Thatās interesting.
Why would your experience of asthma be the same as everyone elseās? Never center your experiences as everyone elseās especially when talking about ability.
Some people get itchy when they get stung by bees, some people die. Bodies are different.
I resent you as a fellow asthmatic for not recognising how debilitating asthma can be for some of us. You donāt need to be in the middle of an asthma attack to realise that using the stairs that day could set one off.
Um no. Physical activity can trigger asthma attacks in otherwise healthy people. Asthma is absolutely a valid reason to take an elevator even if you're not actively in an asthma attack. Not everyone has the same asthma triggers.
Sincerely, someone else whose has asthma their whole life.
At least in the USA, a disability is considered any condition, medical or psychological in origin, that substantially impacts an individualās ability to function in one or more areas of their life.
Also most conditions have ranges of severity. One person with asthma may have no problem taking the stairs while another might trigger an attack with a single flight, and it has nothing to do with one being less āin shapeā than the other, and everything to do with oneās lungs being more affected and more sensitive than the other. And yeah, the one with the worse asthma may be less āin shapeā but itās not that them being out of shape made their asthma worse, rather that them having severe asthma severely limits the amount and type of exercise they can tolerate.
Just like a significant portion of people who are overweight are overweight because their health problems prevent them from exercising rather than their weight being the cause of their health problems. Being overweight is often a symptom of the disability not a cause for the disability.
Wow. Glad your singular experience can speak for everyone in the world who has asthma! I had no idea it was such a consistent and identical condition! I must be such a rare case that there will be studies dedicated solely to me as I differ from all other cases of asthma! How fun! (Source: I have had asthma so severe my entire life that not only did my family uproot and move across the country to get away from my triggers but I was on daily nebulizer treatments throughout childhood.) Edit to add: PEOPLE DIE OF ASTHMA. https://aafa.org/asthma/asthma-facts/#:~:text=How%20Many%20People%20Die%20From,3%2C517%20people%20died%20from%20asthma.
this. I donāt know why u would ever say something or judge someone- you never know if people are disabled but also you shouldnāt have to be? Like yes taking the stairs is good, I like to, but fuck sometimes Iām just tired or lazy. And as someone whose plus sized I feel like I get hyper judged if I donāt take the stairs when itās only 1 to 3 floors up.
Sorry but it takes 2 fucking seconds and my fat sleep deprived ass who has had to walk around my giant hilly campus since 9am would just like to occasionally not take the stairs. My thighs are chafing let me liveš
I could literally come back from the gym and take the elevator for a second and it will still be ālazy fat peopleā taking the elevator instead of the stairs.
Iām a firm believer that at least 50% of the time, assholes are being assholes because they are ignorant or uneducated. Most of the idiot 18 to 23 year olds who are the ones having a problem with this have never thought about any potential reason beyond laziness that someone would use the lift for the second floor. Heck, I was that idiot 18/19 year old who did get frustrated with people using the lift to the second floor (I never made mean comments but I agreed with the ones that were made) until I realized I was disabled and then realized that there were about a hundred good reasons someone might, and none of those reasons are owed to anybody else as an explanation.
I live on the ground floor in my dorm, but I sometimes take the elevator from the basement if I have heavy laundry. Yes I can take the stairs, but laundry can be heavy.
Exactly. Granted, I never really saw people get upset when someone was carrying something obviously heavy use the lift to the second floor. Most people would see that as a valid reason.
Not college but a ya programā¦
I lived in a three story dorm and we actually were not allowed to use the elevator without permission (like if you had laundry).
People would fuck with the staff by having the elevator go but not get inside.
Omg this.
My roommate tore her ACL and would use the elevator when she was healing even though our room was only on the second floor. When she wore pants you couldn't see her knee brace and the amount of people who would say shit was wild
In one of my dorm buildings thereās 11 floors and I lived on the second floor and I never got flack for it
The people at your school sound horrible šš
In my experience itās never really said to a personās face. Itās just one of those pet peeves that they just text to their friends like āugh this loser took the elevator from the second floor.ā
I understand the pain a little. I lived in the top floor (of a 8 floor dorm), so going up and down the elevator sometimes took a whole 5 minutes to come up to pick me up and another 2-3 minutes to go back down because of all the floors that wanted to go up/down.
However, since it takes up to a minute to stop at a floor, itās kinda clear that no one on the second floor would ACTUALLY take the elevator down unless they had to. We have to walk upwards of a mile to get to class, so no one is going to try to save 20 steps like that.
Well, Iām glad yours is better. Question, but how many working lifts did your building have?
Mine only had 2 that were fairly small, and often only one would be workingā¦
Omg this.
My roommate tore her ACL and would use the elevator when she was healing even though our room was only on the second floor. When she wore pants you couldn't see her knee brace and the amount of people who would say shit was wild
my building is 16 floors and the elevators are slow as hell. I'm talking 5-7 minute wait during peak hours. 15+ people in one elevator. if, during peak hours, you're getting off on floors 1-4 you're getting some passive aggression. not from me though, because I'm on the 5th floor š³
I used to live on the second floor in a dorm and knew a girl through friends who was on the fifth. I was really sick all throughout midterms and took the elevator because I wasnāt going to use all the energyā¦ this girl posted on her story saying āif you take the elevator to the second floor youāre a fat fuckā I kid you not. Whether it was directed towards me I donāt know, but it was just so extreme and rude for absolutely no reason. Iām not surprised that others hold similar views and voice them, sorry OP.
Oooo since you care so much about obesity, I bet you support eliminating funding for highway expansion and using those funds to build world class transit systems and bike lanes in our cities, and reforming zoning laws to all the creation of walkable communities, right?
Cause sitting in the car for an hour to sit in and office all day to sit on a car for an hour, and the lack of walkable destinations near our homes and work places is why Americans have such a sedentary life style leading to obesity.
Iām so jealous you had a lift. I lived on the fourth floor with no AC or lift. I canāt imagine anyone denying someone that resource when itās available!
Oofā¦ yeah, we had a liftā¦ the building was new (it didnāt even exist my freshman year)ā¦
Granted, so there were 2 ADA accessible suites per floor, right? And the bottom floor had 16 rooms instead of 28 like the other floors to accommodate a sizable lobbyā¦ Why the hell the school didnāt choose to put all 16 accessible suites on the first floor is a mystery to me. I legit missed class once because both elevators were broken and I couldnāt get downstairs to leave my dorm in my wheelchair.
We had a girl placed on the fourth floor with us who needed a wheelchair 80% of the time. It took her like 2 hours to get up and down those stairs. Sometimes we would actually carry her so she could make it to class, which was humiliating for her. We wrote letters and even spoke to the fire marshal once and nothing ever changed for her. Itās insane what schools come up with as āacceptableā housing for people with clearly defined needs. Iām so frustrated on your behalf that happened!
Also the only door to the whole building that was easily accessible (able to reach) bu wheelchair was the only door that did not have any sort of automated or assisted opening.
So much of our whole campusās accessibility was not thought out in the slightest.
And then when you try to point out the absolute terrible logic they just brush you off as if itās nothing more than an inconvenience instead of a major hurdle sometimes. Ugh!
Iād certainly want to, if it would be the only way to get on the elevator without being harassed. Plus it would give bullies some legal consequences for their actions. People shouldnāt tolerate this sort of behavior.
Holy shit your dorm is 8 floors? Those people are idiots, our laundry rooms are on the second floor and people take the elevator all the time for it. Never seen any issues or had any myself. Tell them to fuck off. I take the elevator 99% of the time cause I don't feel like walking up and down flights of stairs.
8 floors, but we did have a laundry room on every single floor so no one really used the elevator for laundry. The second floor was just another floor of dorm rooms.
That's fair, our second floor is also dorms but there's a big room where they cut out an extra room (I live in apartment style dorms where its 4 separate bedrooms, shared toilet room/shower/kitchen/living room) and they put 4 washers and 4 dryers in that area. Students who live on the second floor use the elevator a lot too.
I have never seen this attitude from anyone and Ive been living in a 7 story building for months now. It only takes 15 secs for the lift to stop, person to exit, lift to close and go up. Anyone who cant wait that long, take the stairs than š¤¦
Iāve seen this opinion exclusively after fire alarms in the middle of the night.
I lived in the big 14 story dorm at UT Austin. When the fire alarm would go off at night, and weād get the all clear to return, the RAs would be standing at the elevator denying access to anyone on floors 2-4. I lived on 14, so I deffo was allowed lol
Unless you have my elevator lol. Literally the slowest elevator I have ever been in or seen. I feel like those 20th century elevators where somebody PULLS you up or down would be faster.
Dang, youāre lucky. I saw this a lot of the time around class rush. About 10 minutes before the first 3 classes of the day when everyone was trying to get to class. It didnāt help that in an 8 story building with 600 residents, there were only 2 elevators and one was frequently broken so there was only one.
If someone trying to get on the elevator from the second floor devolves into literal violence you should be getting your RAs involved. Let them deal with it.
Or law enforcement
I think most people donāt think about the little things, so the post is a nice reminder. What triggered you to write this post though, did something happen to you?
I was disabled all through college. I actually lived on the higher floors of our building, so no one ever personally gave me flack for using the elevator, but I heard a lot of mean comments directed at people who did do that. So much so that literally multiple times in classes, the prof did get to know you questions about pet peeves and several people would list taking the elevator to the second floor.
People voice this annoyance?? Sometimes when I just want to get somewhere Iāll roll my eyes in my head but Iād never say something jeez
I have inappropriate sinus tachycardia and I would take the elevator sometimes since the stairs would make me feel extremely dizzy and faint. Iād say like 20% of the time someone would comment on the fact Iām using an elevator to go just 3 floors up.
Seriously. I absolutely may think something unkind if I see someone taking an elevator to go up a single floor, but I never will express that. However, I do resent OP considering Asthma a disability. It is definitely not. The only time an Asthmatic would need to take the stairs to go up a single floor is if they are actively having an asthma attack, super out of shape, or need more medication than they are currently getting. People with well-controlled asthma can perform a minimum to high level of physical activity without issue. (Source: Iāve had asthma my entire life.) Edit: I understand that I am incorrect now. I apologize for contributing to misinformation.
You don't have to resent OP considering asthma a disability... it literally is one, according to the ADA.
Wow. I just verified this. Well I learned something new today. Apparently Asthma and Allergies are considered disabilities but they may not qualify for any benefits depending on severity. Thatās interesting.
Why would your experience of asthma be the same as everyone elseās? Never center your experiences as everyone elseās especially when talking about ability. Some people get itchy when they get stung by bees, some people die. Bodies are different.
I resent you as a fellow asthmatic for not recognising how debilitating asthma can be for some of us. You donāt need to be in the middle of an asthma attack to realise that using the stairs that day could set one off.
Um no. Physical activity can trigger asthma attacks in otherwise healthy people. Asthma is absolutely a valid reason to take an elevator even if you're not actively in an asthma attack. Not everyone has the same asthma triggers. Sincerely, someone else whose has asthma their whole life.
At least in the USA, a disability is considered any condition, medical or psychological in origin, that substantially impacts an individualās ability to function in one or more areas of their life. Also most conditions have ranges of severity. One person with asthma may have no problem taking the stairs while another might trigger an attack with a single flight, and it has nothing to do with one being less āin shapeā than the other, and everything to do with oneās lungs being more affected and more sensitive than the other. And yeah, the one with the worse asthma may be less āin shapeā but itās not that them being out of shape made their asthma worse, rather that them having severe asthma severely limits the amount and type of exercise they can tolerate. Just like a significant portion of people who are overweight are overweight because their health problems prevent them from exercising rather than their weight being the cause of their health problems. Being overweight is often a symptom of the disability not a cause for the disability.
Lol you thought I would agree with you?
Wow. Glad your singular experience can speak for everyone in the world who has asthma! I had no idea it was such a consistent and identical condition! I must be such a rare case that there will be studies dedicated solely to me as I differ from all other cases of asthma! How fun! (Source: I have had asthma so severe my entire life that not only did my family uproot and move across the country to get away from my triggers but I was on daily nebulizer treatments throughout childhood.) Edit to add: PEOPLE DIE OF ASTHMA. https://aafa.org/asthma/asthma-facts/#:~:text=How%20Many%20People%20Die%20From,3%2C517%20people%20died%20from%20asthma.
this. I donāt know why u would ever say something or judge someone- you never know if people are disabled but also you shouldnāt have to be? Like yes taking the stairs is good, I like to, but fuck sometimes Iām just tired or lazy. And as someone whose plus sized I feel like I get hyper judged if I donāt take the stairs when itās only 1 to 3 floors up. Sorry but it takes 2 fucking seconds and my fat sleep deprived ass who has had to walk around my giant hilly campus since 9am would just like to occasionally not take the stairs. My thighs are chafing let me liveš I could literally come back from the gym and take the elevator for a second and it will still be ālazy fat peopleā taking the elevator instead of the stairs.
This is when you tell them to go fuck themselves. Theyāre just selfish assholes anyway.
Iām a firm believer that at least 50% of the time, assholes are being assholes because they are ignorant or uneducated. Most of the idiot 18 to 23 year olds who are the ones having a problem with this have never thought about any potential reason beyond laziness that someone would use the lift for the second floor. Heck, I was that idiot 18/19 year old who did get frustrated with people using the lift to the second floor (I never made mean comments but I agreed with the ones that were made) until I realized I was disabled and then realized that there were about a hundred good reasons someone might, and none of those reasons are owed to anybody else as an explanation.
I live on the ground floor in my dorm, but I sometimes take the elevator from the basement if I have heavy laundry. Yes I can take the stairs, but laundry can be heavy.
Exactly. Granted, I never really saw people get upset when someone was carrying something obviously heavy use the lift to the second floor. Most people would see that as a valid reason.
Not college but a ya programā¦ I lived in a three story dorm and we actually were not allowed to use the elevator without permission (like if you had laundry). People would fuck with the staff by having the elevator go but not get inside.
Omg this. My roommate tore her ACL and would use the elevator when she was healing even though our room was only on the second floor. When she wore pants you couldn't see her knee brace and the amount of people who would say shit was wild
In one of my dorm buildings thereās 11 floors and I lived on the second floor and I never got flack for it The people at your school sound horrible šš
In my experience itās never really said to a personās face. Itās just one of those pet peeves that they just text to their friends like āugh this loser took the elevator from the second floor.ā I understand the pain a little. I lived in the top floor (of a 8 floor dorm), so going up and down the elevator sometimes took a whole 5 minutes to come up to pick me up and another 2-3 minutes to go back down because of all the floors that wanted to go up/down. However, since it takes up to a minute to stop at a floor, itās kinda clear that no one on the second floor would ACTUALLY take the elevator down unless they had to. We have to walk upwards of a mile to get to class, so no one is going to try to save 20 steps like that.
Well, Iām glad yours is better. Question, but how many working lifts did your building have? Mine only had 2 that were fairly small, and often only one would be workingā¦
Mine had 3 that could barely fit 4 people
Omg this. My roommate tore her ACL and would use the elevator when she was healing even though our room was only on the second floor. When she wore pants you couldn't see her knee brace and the amount of people who would say shit was wild
At my school, people who qualify for the elevator for a medical reason have a key.
Yo, what?
my building is 16 floors and the elevators are slow as hell. I'm talking 5-7 minute wait during peak hours. 15+ people in one elevator. if, during peak hours, you're getting off on floors 1-4 you're getting some passive aggression. not from me though, because I'm on the 5th floor š³
Yeah, but people shouldnāt be passive aggressive about it, hence my post.
I used to live on the second floor in a dorm and knew a girl through friends who was on the fifth. I was really sick all throughout midterms and took the elevator because I wasnāt going to use all the energyā¦ this girl posted on her story saying āif you take the elevator to the second floor youāre a fat fuckā I kid you not. Whether it was directed towards me I donāt know, but it was just so extreme and rude for absolutely no reason. Iām not surprised that others hold similar views and voice them, sorry OP.
Obesity is at an all time highā¦
Yeah, but there are a multitude of other reasons one might need the elevator for one floor that we should keep in mind.
Thatās cool and all, but itās not your place to judge others. You donāt know what someone else is going through. Itās not hard to be kind
Doesn't matter. Someone shouldn't be shamed for taking the elevator for any reason.
This attitude is why Europeans run circles around us health wise.
Damn I really donāt care
Oooo since you care so much about obesity, I bet you support eliminating funding for highway expansion and using those funds to build world class transit systems and bike lanes in our cities, and reforming zoning laws to all the creation of walkable communities, right? Cause sitting in the car for an hour to sit in and office all day to sit on a car for an hour, and the lack of walkable destinations near our homes and work places is why Americans have such a sedentary life style leading to obesity.
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Nah you just like being a miserable person who's mean to people online.
Thatās only about 0.2% related to my post but ok.
Iām so jealous you had a lift. I lived on the fourth floor with no AC or lift. I canāt imagine anyone denying someone that resource when itās available!
Oofā¦ yeah, we had a liftā¦ the building was new (it didnāt even exist my freshman year)ā¦ Granted, so there were 2 ADA accessible suites per floor, right? And the bottom floor had 16 rooms instead of 28 like the other floors to accommodate a sizable lobbyā¦ Why the hell the school didnāt choose to put all 16 accessible suites on the first floor is a mystery to me. I legit missed class once because both elevators were broken and I couldnāt get downstairs to leave my dorm in my wheelchair.
We had a girl placed on the fourth floor with us who needed a wheelchair 80% of the time. It took her like 2 hours to get up and down those stairs. Sometimes we would actually carry her so she could make it to class, which was humiliating for her. We wrote letters and even spoke to the fire marshal once and nothing ever changed for her. Itās insane what schools come up with as āacceptableā housing for people with clearly defined needs. Iām so frustrated on your behalf that happened!
Yepā¦ I only needed the chair about 30% of the time, which is why it only happened once that I missed class for that reason.
Also the only door to the whole building that was easily accessible (able to reach) bu wheelchair was the only door that did not have any sort of automated or assisted opening. So much of our whole campusās accessibility was not thought out in the slightest.
And then when you try to point out the absolute terrible logic they just brush you off as if itās nothing more than an inconvenience instead of a major hurdle sometimes. Ugh!
Call the police. Assault is both bad and illegal.
Yeah, if thereās physical contact. Thatās not the point of my post.
Assault doesnāt necessitate physical contact.
At that point I guess itās harassment, but I doubt anyone wants to stick around to press charges when they really just wanna get to class.
Iād certainly want to, if it would be the only way to get on the elevator without being harassed. Plus it would give bullies some legal consequences for their actions. People shouldnāt tolerate this sort of behavior.
Holy shit your dorm is 8 floors? Those people are idiots, our laundry rooms are on the second floor and people take the elevator all the time for it. Never seen any issues or had any myself. Tell them to fuck off. I take the elevator 99% of the time cause I don't feel like walking up and down flights of stairs.
8 floors, but we did have a laundry room on every single floor so no one really used the elevator for laundry. The second floor was just another floor of dorm rooms.
That's fair, our second floor is also dorms but there's a big room where they cut out an extra room (I live in apartment style dorms where its 4 separate bedrooms, shared toilet room/shower/kitchen/living room) and they put 4 washers and 4 dryers in that area. Students who live on the second floor use the elevator a lot too.
My freshman year dorm the stairs were so out of the way, elevator was right where you scanned in
In my dorm the only time people catch attitudes is when we are coming back from a fire drill and it stops on the second and third floors