The Elevator Routine

What Is This?
This is the other guy on the elevator.

Hate It Or Love It?
Don't you hate how awkward it is when you get on the elevator with someone you don't know?

Get on the elevator with a stranger and I can almost guarantee you that this is what's going to happen:

1. They'll pull out their phone, flip it open, and pretend to check the time or their texts. Sometimes, they might actually start to text someone before they delete the half-written text after they get off.
2. If checking their phone does not kill enough time, they'll turn and stare at the blinking numbers as the elevator goes up floor by floor. This is about as exciting as watching seconds go by on an digital clock, but hey, it's better than looking awkwardly at your feet.

The problem is, elevator rides are too long to do nothing and too short to actually start a conversation with the other person.

Top 5 Alternative Elevator Activities To Add Some Humor To Your Day:
5. Silently pass gas, and then as you walk out, call "doorknob" and punch the guy in the arm.
4. Press the button for every single floor and then look at the other guy with a big grin.
3. Copy exactly what the other guy does. Movements, speech, everything. Get off at his floor and keep copying him until he asks what the deal is.
2. Pretend to talk on the phone and throw in some hacking coughs. Really loudly say, "Bad news, the doctor said it was swine flu and that I'm highly contagious."
1. Take one look at the guy, make your eyes really big, button-mash the "Door Open" <| |> button before the elevator leaves the ground floor and then sprint out without looking back.

We'll also turn the list into a Monday Contest. If you're brave enough to do one of the five on the list within the next week, then do it and write your story about it in a comment (we're going on the honor system here). Best story wins.