“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works.”
From Up and Then Down, a very interesting article in last week’s New Yorker about elevators, how they work, how they fail — and the man trapped in one for 40 hours.
NewMexiKen used to work on the ninth floor of a building with particularly poor elevators. We used to argue over whether the close door buttons did anything, or if they just seemed to because the neurotics pushed the buttons about the time the door closed anyway.
I read somewhere that there is sometimes a shortcut key, by pressing the “door close” and the floor button at the same time, it won’t stop on any other floors.
Cheers, Mi3ke