Elevation

[vvvexation]

Yesterday, when I rode the elevator in Evans hall, I noticed a row of stickers high above the door that said "I TOOK THE STAIRS."

There appeared to be smaller text underneath saying something about a National Get-More-Exercise Day or something, so evidently it wasn't some kind of elevator boycott, but whatever it was...the person who put them there obviously hadn't taken the stairs, had they? There were enough of them and in a hard-enough-to-reach location that there's no way someone just reached a quick arm in and stuck them there--they'd have to have stood in the elevator for a good minute at least. So either they were in fact riding the elevator or they had a compatriot hold the door open, thereby keeping everyone else from using the elevator--which last, come to think of it, might indeed have been a rather heavy-handed attempt to enforce this get-more-exercise thing.

So, guerilla personal-trainer tactics, or merely deliberate irony through conscious self-contradiction? Or worse, plain and simple unconscious self-contradiction?

(Wow. Instead of parentheses, this seems to be an Entry Full of Hyphens.)

Comments

[adamchristopher.livejournal.com]

that is so hilarious, thanks for pointing that out

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see something like that I feel compelled to tell someone, and usually I've got no one to tell right then. It's nice having a place to share random interesting things.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Well, they could have ridden the elevator up and down, then gotten back off on the original floor. I mean, does that really count as taking the elevator? :)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

From a wasting-electricity standpoint, yes; from the getting-exercise standpoint that seemed to be the one they were going for, I guess not. Still seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to, though.

Hey, maybe they meant they stole the stairs. And then put them back when no one was looking or something. Hell, maybe they meant they raped the stairs. *shudder*