13 July, 2007

Blonde Girl + (Enter Mechanical Device) + Horror Film = Doomed!

So as I was riding in an elevator yesterday, I had an epiphany.

Everyone has seen the scene in scary movies where some hapless victim is outrunning the bad guy, somehow gets to an elevator (instead of the stairs, being faster), and uses the "Close Door" button.

As we all know, this button does not immediately close the doors.

I wonder if anyone that has ever designed or built elevators, sitting in the movie audience thought "hmm, we should really make that button have a better response time."

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