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Q: Do you push the "Close Door" button on lifts
In the building I live in, lifts are from Otis, the close button has absolutely zero effect, the doors close 2,5 seconds after they have opened or the door sensor has sensed someone entering/exiting. However all the neighbors are always hammering the close door button as soon as they have pressed the floor they want to go to.
Do you press the button ? Are you Chinese ?
There is an older woman in my apartment block who seems to be waiting for me to come home from work, just so she can push the door close button as I walk towards the lift. Honestly, the same time almost every evening she would be there with a smug grin on her face as the door juddered closed on my approach.
I messed up her hideous plans of one-upmanship over the ugly foreigner though.... I go to the pub after work now and don't go home till after her bedtime 
I don't hit the close button as soon as i've pressed for my floor, not at all, I usually wait till someone's coming to get in the lift, otherwise it's just boring.
I do.
But not because I am impatient, some days I just don't feel like being crushed with 50 people trying to get on the elevator... all staring as me and whispering while I explain to them I can understand them and do speak Chinese and they are being rude.
Sometimes, I get nice Chinese that are polite and just chat a little. I will press the "open door" button if I see one of those kinds coming in my residential area.
No I don't, a waste of time. But what I do is, as I'm getting out of the lift & these people are trying to get in at the SAME fuckn time, almost pushing me back in, I shoulder (& I'm a big guy) any idiot that won't let me out.
WTF is that!! Its not the lift is gonna disappear into space or anything, its still gonna be there after I leave. Idiots.
Scandinavian:
When this happens I will usually all of a sudden have a lot of time. Have tied a shoelace in the lift door opening once.
