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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Not holding the door is the vertical conveyance equivalent of reclining on a plane.
Rude and self centred.
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100% incorrect. Holding the elevator door open for people is the equivalent of driving and slowing down so that someone at a yield can get in front of you. It's not a merge, so the better flow for all traffic is for the other driver to yield until there is a proper gap to enter traffic. By you letting that person in, you are delaying everyone behind you to satisfy the wants of a person who is too impatient to wait their turn.
Not holding the elevator is better for society as a whole. There are already people in the elevator waiting to go. Where you see that you are being nice and courteous to one person who isn't in the elevator, you are actually being rude to the 10 people in the elevator. The person not in the elevator could wait 10 seconds for the next high speed elevator instead of you wasting 30 seconds of 10 people's time. By holding the elevator door you've wasted 3 minutes of total time instead of 10 seconds of total time for the one person. If that person gets off on the lowest floor, this compounds the problem.
If I see an elevator door closing before I'm in it, I just let it close and take the next one. The dbags who put their arms in it instead of waiting are terrible people.