Hotel Elevators need a 'Clear All' button.
I daydream, but it’s 3am so I guess I’m just dreaming with my eyes open because I really should be asleep. Anyway, I just read an article on the 10 things not to do when you’re in a hotel; you can check it out here (no pun intended).
This article made me daydream, to a point in time where nothing mattered in the world. When my girlfriend and I took a mini weekend getaway to St. Louis and stayed in a wonderful hotel right across from the Arch. We had some awesome beautiful views. However, we were there during St. Patricks day weekend. So it was spring break, families were there, there were party goers, and it was warm; the city was alive 24 hours a day.
During one of our night excursions (we’re complete Night Owls, no waking up before 11am for us!), we returned back to the hotel just as people were ending their dinner apparently. A group of girls exited the elevator to about 10 of us waiting in the lobby and they were giggling. We thought nothing of it, “Teenagers!”, we all thought collectively. The hotel was sort of old and had some awesome vintage flair and the elevators were super slow and kind of small. Half of the group pushed their way into the elevators but to my surprise most of those people got off immediately. Some of them cursing under their breath, mumbling “I’d rather take the stairs”. My girlfriend and I looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders and got on the elevator. As the door closed and while we looked for our floor, to press the button, we realized, every floor, in the 40-some-odd floor hotel had been pressed. We took one for the team as each floor, the doors opened and shut without a single person getting off the stupid elevator.
The realization I just had a year and some months later, elevators, not just hotel elevators need a “clear all” button. I think it would be useful if it cleared all floors if more than half are chosen. How often do you get into an elevator and every single person needs to go to almost 10 different floors. Of course this would be useful for tall buildings rather than 3 story buildings and I think it would work.
We definitely needed something like this that night.