Family of Karens hog the building elevator, neighbor makes sure they stop on every floor: 'They don't know it was me'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 3, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

It's time to discuss elevator decorum. If you have a neighbor who refuses to hold the elevator for others or who takes too much time hogging the space, thereby actively inconveniencing everyone else, you very well may relate to this individual's experience.

This Redditor has an upstairs Karen of a neighbor who would consistently take up to half an hour hogging the elevator and getting her family and belongings in and out, making it impossible for anyone else to make use of it. Finally, the original poster (OP) decided to do something about it. The next time this ridiculous family decided to usurp the elevator for a long period of time, OP decided to walk nine flights downstairs but made sure to press the button for the elevator on each flight. The best part about their petty revenge is that the family of Karens has absolutely no idea who was behind this plot.

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    Hold the elevator on me, will you? I live in a small building. 11 stories high. Now, the people above me have. been getting on our nerves for months now,
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    particularly when it comes to calling the elevator to their floor, and holding it open for like-
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    half an hour waiting for a kid/mother/husband in their apartment to join them, stopping others from calling the elevator to their floor.
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    It happened again yesterday, she held it open for like ten minutes, knew what was coming so I decided to walk the
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    nine stories down. No big deal. But since they always do this, on my way down, I passed the button
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    to call the elevator on every floor, so when they do finally get around to using it, they'll be stopping on every floor before making it down. They don't know it was me.
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    upbeat... . 1d ago • Pettiest revenge possible
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    shady... . 23h ago. Every elevator I have been on makes horrible beeping noises after 3 minutes of trying to
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    hold and the elevator aggressively tries to close the door. Too bad you don't have one of those.
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    Swee... 23h ago. . Surely building management can install an alarm so that if the elevator is held open for longer than say a minute or
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    2, a relentless, ear piercing shrieking sound begins that will not stop until the elevator doors are allowed to close completely.
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    No_Con... 1d ago • • This is the type of pettiness that makes my day :)
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    Contra... • 1d ago • You definitely elevated the level of pettiness for this one.
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    Krust... 23h ago • • Wouldn't it have been easier to walk one flight up and get on the elevator saying you have an important meeting
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    and the elevator will be right back. Then you could go to the bottom and hit every floor button in the elevator before you leave and save yourself 8 more flights if stairs.
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    BlueC... 21h ago. One day when I worked in a hotel, I was going to the 20th floor. I'm on floor 5? A guy I knew from housekeeping
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    gets on with his cart and presses 15. Then he sees 20 is lit so he giggles and presses 16-19.
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    I press the rest and get off and say "have fun gettin that up the stairs. He said "ahhh gL nnnn" when the doors closed.
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    We still laughed about it every time we saw each other LOL
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