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I finally appreciated slow-moving elevators after visiting a mountain resort.
The gentle ascent kept our ears from popping and made me think more about passenger comfort in my work.
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charlesb897mo ago
Overthinking a slow elevator seems like a stretch.
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simonr517mo ago
There's this article I came across about city stress. It said slow elevators are a common example of small delays that bother people every day. These short waits eat at your patience and can mess up your morning. The piece said overthinking isn't dumb, it's a way to deal with the annoyance that builds up from lots of these times. When you're running late, a slow elevator seems like everything is going wrong. It makes sense to wonder why it gets under our skin so much.
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mitchell.jesse7mo ago
Look at it this way, charlesb89. That slow elevator is a tiny piece of proof that the systems we rely on are broken. It's not a stretch at all. It's the last straw on a bad day, and @simonr51's article gets that right. You stand there watching the numbers crawl, and it feels like the whole building, maybe the whole city, doesn't care about your time. Overthinking it is just your brain trying to solve a puzzle, a puzzle where everything is designed to waste minutes you don't have. Calling it a stretch misses how all these small failures add up to real frustration.
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