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Elevator Stories

By Stuart Buck

So everyone is linking to this long and fascinating story about elevators. I liked the passage on elevator etiquette: Passengers seem to know instinctively how to arrange themselves in an elevator. Two strangers will gravitate to the back corners, a third will stand by the door, at an isosceles remove, until a fourth comes in, at which point passengers three and four will spread toward the front corners, making room, in the center, for a fifth, and so on, like the dots on a die. With each additional passenger, the bodies shift, slotting into the open spaces. The goal, of course, is to maintain (but not too conspicuously) maximum distance and to counteract unwanted intimacies?a code familiar (to half the population) from the urinal bank and (to them and all the rest) from the subway...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).