Elevators

Some observations about riding elevators.

When two people are stuffed into an elevator with a bunch of other people, they usually stop talking. If they continue talking, especially at a loud volume, they get glares from the other elevator occupants. The glares are indicative of the hostility often involved with riding the elevator (check out the looks on faces when an elevator stops at a floor and nobody gets on or off -- always unhappy). People tend to avoid standing in the center of the elevator as well. But when the elevator's not particularly crowded, there's a certain comfort in the elevator in conversing with strangers or making little jokes. It's almost like the quick version of the "single serving friend" they talked about in Fight Club.