September 8. Elevators #1, #2 and #3 in our building are being replaced. #3 is finished, #2 is in progress, #1 is still the old one. The new elevator #3 has its own button on each floor. This button will later also call elevators #1 and #2 when they are connected to the new system. At least I think so. Elevator #1 still has its button from the old system. So now there is a button on each floor that only calls elevator #1, and a button that only calls elevator #3. It was obvious what would happen: now everyone in the building presses both buttons when they want an elevator. The one that comes first, you take, the other one stops, a short time later, on that floor unnecessarily. Effectively, this means that we currently only have the capacity of one elevator, distributed over two elevators. J got really furious when, at the beginning, I wanted to press both buttons too. In the meantime, I am completely on the side of those who press only one button. It doesn’t help anything though. As you can easily see, the only way the system could work would be for everyone in the house to randomly press one of the two buttons, but not always the same one. Instead, we stoically stand in the elevator and endure the selfishness.

André Spiegel @drmirror