There's More Room With Less People

Most people wait while an elevator empties of what people are getting off at that floor before they shove their way into the elevator. It only makes sense.

Let’s say you want to get on the elevator. You decide you don’t care that other people have to get off the elevator and you’re just going to step into the box. Those who wish to get out must now push around you to get onto their floor. You’ve blocked someone, they’ve pushed around you. No one is happy. Someone is probably ticked off, someone probably very much like me.

Logic says that if people are allowed to get off the elevator before others get on, there will be more room for everyone. No one gets angry and no one gets pushed.

This is not rocket science. It is not only common sense but common courtesy. But then parking on campus has taught me that if it was not for insurance companies and police, most wouldn’t wait for the previous car to leave the parking spot. They would just park on top of the initial vehicle.

When you go to Wal-Mart try to actually use the entrance when you get there. This seems elementary, but this simple rule spelled out is often ignored and often someone gets run over by the cart of person who is just trying to leave the wretched place. Then the person who has entered through the wrong doors has the audacity to flip off the person who is just trying to leave through the proper exit.

This doesn't just apply to elevators, there are other times this logic should apply. The other day I was riding the Seahawk Shuttle. It was a fairly cold day for Wilmington, but those of us standing outside Morton waited for people to on the shuttle to step off. I live in the Seahawk Village and it’s only a few minutes from Morton to the stop outside my apartment. When the bus stopped I stood up to get off and started to make my way towards the exit with four or five other people trying to get. We were stopped though, when two girls who were standing at the stop pushed their way onto the bus before any of us had a chance to get off.

I understand that it was cold that day at least for those who have lived in warm areas all their lives, but that is no excuse and it’s not like this behavior is at all limited to when the weather is adverse. In kindergarten we were taught to wait our turn. This shouldn't be difficult and would make life easier on everyone.