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i don’t follow all your elevator rules. =P
but yes, humans have this strange way of personal space about them.

one thing for sure.i get dizzy inside elevators. and another one, i can’t stand the distance.lol

LMAO… I think we can tell alot about YOU writing this post!

LOL… OK.. I’ll admit my fascination with elevators too. No one ever really talks. And you’re right about never facing someone… I’ve never really noticed that. I’m going to make it a personal test to stand in the elevator FACING someone… I’ll still give them the equa-distant space… but stand face to face… wonder what will happen?!

~Richard :)

PS did you ever JUMP in the elevator as it comes to it’s jerking stop??? Feels kinda like your flying :)

Yes I move so we’re equa distant. Except if it’s family or close friends.
I always stand on opposite sides of the box (i.e. face people).
Depends on what we’re talking about and who enters (as for the stopping of the talking thing).
I love standing in the corner.
Yes, why yes, I DO like to face the doors. But I move around.
And it seems nice to adjust when we stop for someone.

Do you notice that even though people are suppose to exit before the others enter, there is always a pause from the ones in the elevator.

It would be an interesting project to construct elevators in differing cultures and chronicle people’s behaviors. Would people in the Amazon jungle or Papua New Guinea behave the same as Canadians or Americans or Europeans?

Can you provide the funds for this research, Sagezza? I’m willing to do the field work….

I guess I am an enigma! I am the guy who gets on the elevator and says, “How’s it going?” I have a tendancy to scare people because I thrust them out of their comfort zone ~chuckles~.

Ahhhh OP… another person that watched the moive Patch Adams!

Great subject! I’ve not thought about to too much…just follow the rules haha. But I don’t remember anyone telling me the rules before I followed them, so where did they come from. To short a time in transition to start a conversation, and any conversation that you were having (with a fellow rider if you arrived together) has already been interrupted by the insane feeling that the elevator must arrive RIGHT NOW…WHERE IS IT. It’s alot like the customary greeting during a short transaction such as walking by someone you know and saying “good morning” or “how are you” or the same happening at a register somewhere. You just don’t start a conversation because it’s understood that is not the purpose of the meeting.