I have long been one of those people who always takes the stairs whenever possible. Not only is it better for your health, but it also saves energy! (Yes kids, remember- elevators use electricity.)

It drives me CRAZY when I'm in an elevator and people use it to go up one or two floors. (Or even worse - DOWN any less than three floors.) If you look healthy and don't seem to have any physical disabilities, I will judge you as being lazy. Sorry to sound harsh, but with the incredible obesity epidemic we have nowadays, there's no excuse for not taking the stairs if you're able to.

Consequently, my new office building has some issues. Despite most floors having key card access doors to the interior offices, the stupid stairwell doors are LOCKED. Meaning, if you want to go to another floor — whether it be one or eleven floors up — you HAVE to take the elevator. If you go into the stairwell, you are locked out and the only way out is through the lobby or garage.

I work on the second floor.

As you can see, this is absolute torture for me. To get in the elevator to go up ONE floor is like asking me to drive my car 1/10th of a mile.

Whenever I get in the elevator with people going up to the 15th floor and I hit that "2" button, I want to turn around and say, "Look, the stairwell doors are locked! I can't do anything about that! Believe me, I'd take the stairs if I could!" (Hey, I would know — I was one of those people. I worked on the 10th floor at my old office and would inwardly groan each time some lazy person would make me late because they wouldn't take the stairs — which, coincidentally, were very usable because the stairwell doors were unlocked!)

Even worse, the bathrooms on our floor are being renovated, so we have to go up to the 3rd floor to use theirs. Which means going up and back down only ONE floor in the elevator. Rather than potentially embarrass myself, I've been using different floors' bathrooms. (Except the 6th floor. Damn SAIC has the ladies' room locked. )

Unfortunately, I've found a nice, newly renovated bathroom on the 4th floor… but I suppose the sacrifice of going up/down two floors in order to use a modern bathroom is worth the risk of being judged by elevator-mates.