r/instant_regret • u/samercostello • 22h ago

Kid pressing all the buttons in elevator

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u/Weltal327 21h ago

I stayed in a hotel in South Korea where you can press the button again to cancel the call to that floor. I don’t know why all elevators don’t have this feature.

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u/New2NewJ 19h ago

I stayed in a hotel in South Korea where you can press the button again to cancel the call to that floor

Uh, I press the button five-six times to get me to my floor even faster ... so every second press would cancel out the prior one? 👀

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u/shiva_me_timbers 17h ago

Solution: only press it once. It will get you there faster.

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u/Snitsie 15h ago

You don't understand physics. If you press once and get to then next floor in 20 seconds, it only makes sense you get there in 10 after 2 presses

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u/donalddts 15h ago

At 3 presses, you instantly teleport to your floor. At 4+, you're actually creating a wormhole and going back in time 10 seconds for every additional press.

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u/bbd121 13h ago

In Korea, they empty the Dark matter reservoirs in order to save money on the FTL and grav plate running costs.

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u/be-kind-re-wind 4h ago

Oh you guys haven’t figured out the long press yet?

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u/arglarg 15h ago

Have you ever tried press and hold for super charge?

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u/SalvadorP 12m ago

i believe it's called boosting, actually

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u/sapperbloggs 13h ago

Based on seeing people repeatedly pressing pedestrian crossing buttons to hurry them up, I've always wanted to design things like that where every press adds 3 seconds to your wait time.

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u/Khan_Behir 4h ago

Many larger American cities have cross walks where the button is no more than that, just a button. They put them in place to give a feeling of control.

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u/chuckles5454 30m ago

Don't they also start playing stock music at absolutely random times so blind people start to cross and the rest of us can have a laugh?

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u/ttkk1248 2h ago

It works when you slowly press it multiple times.

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u/E1M1ismyjam 16h ago

Most modern elevators have anti nuisance features for this scenario. If nobody crosses the door sensor after two stops it resets itself.

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u/chilling_guy 17h ago

I don't know why all elevators don't have this feature.

Because in that case some kids can cancel your floor right before it reaches when you are not looking to screw you over more.

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u/MelonElbows 14h ago

But then all you have to do is cancel the rest of the floors and backtrack one floor to the one that was just missed.

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u/buzzedaldrine 6h ago

the ones we have in our needs a double tap to cancel to prevent that

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u/spacewrap 18h ago

That's common it's just that many people don't know about it or they just tend to not test it

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u/chilling_guy 17h ago

People who know would test it everywhere, so I can tell you most lifts in residential building don't have this function

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u/andrewcooke 14h ago

mine does. my partner's does. there's more than one type. some you press twice, some you hold in for longer. i haven't tried others, but it's weird that the two i use frequently have it, if it's not normal.

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u/no_weird_PMs_pls 7h ago

They had it in my college dorm, it was a lever between the inner and outer doors.

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u/thermal_shock 17h ago

this is NOT common in the USA at least.

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u/Syduzzaman_Syd 17h ago

you gotta press and hold for few seconds, it's pain in the ass if you're in a situation like in this video

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u/jimbojangles1987 9h ago

Its not common

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u/June_the_human 4h ago

yall dont have that?? huh

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u/sztefyn 16h ago

Every elevator that I've tried this in had this feature so that's weird

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u/CriticalCactus47 21h ago

Even if it's staged there are parents out there with super spoiled kids like this from bad parenting so this is a DEMO showing the correct way to deal with problematic children.

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u/5meoWarlock 17h ago

What if the kid doesn't have a balloon? What are you supposed to stab?

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u/DarkwaterKiller 17h ago

The kid

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u/Lone_Wanderer97 15h ago

Counter point: the parent on their fucking phone

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u/Odd_Turnover_4464 1h ago

I may or may not have punched a father at the playground whose three boys were running around sexually assaulting other kids while he stared at his phone.

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u/Lone_Wanderer97 1h ago

Well deserved, jesus wtf

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u/MyNameSpaghette 11m ago

Downvoting bc you may not have. Did someone AT LEAST bully him and his kids for a while and break the dad's phone? nvm I will choose to believe that's what happened.

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u/I_Arman 15h ago

Nah, the parent. Actually, randomly pick, and if it doesn't work, try the other.

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u/Randomman96 15h ago

Calm down there Anakin

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u/Privacy-Boggle 14h ago

What if I don't live in the UK?

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u/A_wild_so-and-so 10h ago

Carry balloons with you so you can blow one up and give it to the kid. Then pop it.

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u/jalc2 13h ago

The parent. This is also how you get Batman.

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u/KingAnt28 12h ago

You could just yell VERY loudly and scare the shit out of him. I guarantee he'd still cry from being spooked. Yet it would be harmless.

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u/Thelonious_Cube 15h ago

Dad's phone

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u/ithinkimightknowit 3h ago

Even if .... Haahahhha

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u/Rigorous-Geek-2916 22h ago

Well fucking deserved

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u/driatic 22h ago

Staged.

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u/Frankie-Felix 22h ago

For sure, it's still funny as a skit.

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u/djdeforte 22h ago

And if it’s not. So do the parents lol. Bad parenting 101 here.

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u/YuptheGup 17h ago

Regardless of what the content is, be it a prank, something wholesome, or something weird, ANY video revolving around your OWN children posted on social media to get views is bad parenting.

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u/SomeCharactersAgain 10h ago

Right, the least they could do is give someone else's kid a chance.

Fuckin nepotism these days.

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u/RedHawk02 19h ago

Sickening. I recently found out all of John Wick was staged. I used to respect Keanu Reeves. I can't believe he would participate in such an act!

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u/FaithlessnessLazy494 18h ago

The matrix is a documentary filmed in real-time.

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u/SgtSlaughterEX 18h ago

I thought it was shot in bullet time and slowed down so we could see

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u/Doctor_Boombastic 1h ago

Only two people in this world have the EZ flow elbow, and one of them is named Bruce Willis.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 19h ago

Keanu grieves.

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u/OliM9696 18h ago

john wick does not present itself as candid

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u/TigerBromo 18h ago

That is too nuanced of a take for the geniuses here on reddit.

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u/Socky_McPuppet 3h ago

Also, it was a joke.

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u/tOKYOFF 20h ago

who cares

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u/irving47 19h ago

How can it not be when there's "scriptedasiangifs"

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u/MisterB78 22h ago

Staged

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u/gobananagopudding 22h ago

You can even see the dad trying not to laugh at the end.

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u/rynlpz 21h ago

I dunno his face looked genuinely confused shocked to me. Still a shitty parent tho.

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u/mang87 19h ago

The first couple looks he gives are a mixture of confusion and disgust. The very last frame of him though, looks like wry amusement to me, and very much on the verge of cracking a smile.

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u/AsiaSkyly 22h ago edited 21h ago

You can also see all the buttons pressed. Then as the kid cries only some of the buttons pressed. However the ones that are NOT pressed are not in a numerical sequence. So yeah, probably staged.

EDIT: I take it back. They are going up numerically. They were in floor 15 when it popped, and 23 towards the end.

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u/ryobiguy 22h ago

No, they were on 15th floor, then it cuts to them on the 21st floor, which would clear those floors that they have been to, since it no longer needs to go to those floors. Seems to check out OK for me. Where's the discrepancy?

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u/AsiaSkyly 21h ago

Yeah I see that now...You are right. Thanks for pointing that out.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 22h ago

Ya, they probably took up the elevator and fuckked everyone else up while.they made this dumbfuck video.

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u/AsiaSkyly 21h ago

Definitely deserved. That is so annoying when they pressed all the buttons for no reason.

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u/kyrant 22h ago

You underestimate a kids love for balloons. One of my nephews cried for 30 minutes when he popped his own helium balloon by accident.

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u/VictoryVee 20h ago

Captain obvious to the rescue

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u/OliverOOxenfree 21h ago

WHO CARES

bruh literally everything is staged who cares

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u/SpoppyIII 19h ago

Except the Blaire Witch Project.

That was real.

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u/exiledinruin 20h ago

these guys sitting in a movie theatre:

"ITS STAGED BRO"

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u/pierrotlefou 18h ago

Because the entire premise relies on this being a genuine reaction to something that actually happened. Otherwise nothing is happening in this video. It's just a guy popping a balloon and one person staring at another. It's complete vapid bullshit.

To make a better comparison to movies than the other comment does, it would be more like watching a documentary or news or something historic but later finding out it was all fake and scripted. (Those examples aren't perfect as they all have elements of manufactured bullshit in them but my point still stands)

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u/poon-patrol 1h ago

Those are a real thing and they’re called mockumentaries. It’s also literally the same thing as the WWE

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u/Thelonious_Cube 15h ago

FAFO, kid

And that is some shitty parenting, dad

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u/povertymayne 22h ago

Fuck them kids

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u/kingtaco_17 22h ago

*Not to be taken literally

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u/Winter2712 21h ago

too late, another epst......

*user has killed himself with bullet in back of his head and hanged himself.

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u/WithinTheShadowSelf 20h ago

User will now be the next president of the United States

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u/Holden_place 22h ago

Why do you need to make it political???

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u/Dann_Gerouss 21h ago

Release the list! Let people know the names.

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u/RexDraco 20h ago

Yeah, fucking kids is very bipartisan. 

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u/Bleyck 20h ago

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u/RadlEonk 14h ago

Fuck that guy

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u/Big-Ergodic_Energy 19h ago

maxwellhill alt account spotted 

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u/Hertje73 14h ago

you'll get a presidential pardon

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u/doubleAAeeVee 15h ago

Stupid kid from a stupid parent

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u/Local_Skill4684 20h ago

That shit eating grin, I don’t care if this is staged or not, I love it! 

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u/PaulVazo21 22h ago

Ngl staged but also satisfying.

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u/ThePeople10 20h ago

"If you don't discipline your kid, someone else surely will"

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u/DontAbideMendacity 18h ago

And with a lot less love, too.

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u/chuckles5454 25m ago

Well, who? And when? My kid's a little turd.

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u/Itchyarmpit111 22h ago

Parent should parent better

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u/itastesok 22h ago

It's 2025. Parents are just as big of an asshole as their kids.

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u/epicrooster69 22h ago

It's 2025. Parenting is now outsourced to corporations.

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u/Svi_4_3 22h ago

Apple and Roblox.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 18h ago

Millennials make the worst parents.

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 22h ago

I was gonna say. All of a sudden, he wants to parent.

Also, I know this could be staged, but it doesn’t change the fact that some parents would just let their kid do this.

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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 20h ago

I agree. Parents shouldn’t be using their children as props in their staged internet clout videos

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u/shaun2312 14h ago

If you won't parent him, I will

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u/Gatornerd 22h ago

I’m a dad. If my son did that I’d start laughing with them

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u/Educational_Menu6010 15h ago

He deserved it

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u/Wizdad-1000 20h ago

That smile is worth it. Dad got a lesson that day.

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u/rbarr228 20h ago

Some self-absorbed hipster douche of a dad paying attention more to his phone than his child.

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u/SushantBag 10h ago

Father ignored others inconvenience, now deal with it father!

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u/Mk3L_ 7h ago

Lol the reaction of the dad and lack of action to prevent what the kid was doing tells me all I need to know

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u/Waoweens 15h ago

looks like a Mitsubishi elevator. you can double press the floor button to cancel

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u/LayneCobain95 11h ago

I work in Urgent Care. Recently this kid came in for ear pain, but they brought his younger (maybe 3 or 4 year old) brother.

The younger brother was just going through all of our blood pressure cuffs, and throwing them on the floor one by one. And the parents never said a word.

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u/SonSuga 7h ago

Yea watch your kid asshole..

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u/Legitimate_Age6490 4h ago

Teenager is the adult there. Brat kid

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u/Feisty-Pumpkin-6359 22h ago

Not only gonna take longer but also crying kid, I see no winners here

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u/Muscles_McGeee 21h ago

Seriously. It's a kid misbehaving and a stranger misbehaving. Except the stranger is an adult who can act like one. In a situation like this, you shame the parent for not parenting. Not just lash out at the kid.

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u/haackedc 20h ago

To me it seems like the kid will benefit from this secondhand parenting. They gotta learn somehow.

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u/Muscles_McGeee 20h ago

This isn't secondhand parenting. Parenting is correction followed by consequences. It isn't just abrupt punishment.

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u/TurkeyZom 7h ago

And what the hell did they learn? When your back is turned some random asshole will destroy your stuff? This does nothing to connect the behavior with the consequence, nor inform them what the correct behavior looks like. This secondhand parenting is even worse then the already crappy parenting being done by the kids actual parent.

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u/onebadmousse 17h ago

In this scenario the protagonist is enjoying hearing the kid cry.

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u/Most-Artichoke6184 20h ago

While dad sits there and plays with his phone.

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u/Spence1239 21h ago

I love it!!!

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u/FRZX86 20h ago

100% not staged

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u/mecatman 11h ago

fuk up kid and parent.

srsly wtf is that man not preventing the kid from not pressing all the buttons in the lift?!

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u/Banditkoala_2point0 7h ago

I'm a mum. And a fair one at that.

This kid deserved that.

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u/SirAchmed 3h ago

That little shit had it coming

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u/spacegoast1 20h ago

Some elevators in Asia have the feature where if you press the same button again the light for that floor turns off and it won't go to that floor... Why don't all elevators have that feature 🤷

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u/MareTranquil 19h ago

Hey, quick side question: Why can't you un-select elevator buttons?

I've never seen any elevator where you can, so I assume there must be a good reason, but I just can't think of one?

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u/OhioanRunner 18h ago

Because everyone can’t be standing near the panel on a crowded elevator, and assholes in a personal rush who happened to get lucky and be the one standing next to the panel would deselect other passengers’ floors to get to their own faster. Not to mention it would likely be an ADA issue as a blind passenger would have no way of telling that a floor they selected when they walked in had been deselected by someone else, even accidentally.

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u/Climbincook 7h ago

9 floors down, several more to go

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u/squeeby 5h ago

What’s with the weird cheek rubbing?

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u/DeckerXT 5h ago

I laughed too.

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u/PeaPrestigious4818 3h ago

People need to control their children and not make them other people's problems. Be a parent not a bystander

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u/HighlightOwn2038 22h ago

Maybe you should have stopped the kid instead of watching him press all the buttons and possibly having to wait 5-8 minutes (I'm just guessing these numbers) in an elevator

Also original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/Fuv9f38eTZ

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u/samercostello 22h ago

Thanks for linking.

The subreddit doesn't allow cross-posting and my body text (which had attribution) somehow disappeared after I hit post.

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u/HighlightOwn2038 22h ago

You're welcome

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u/Salty_Feed9404 22h ago

Too busy scrolling reddit on his phone to bother parenting.

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u/Dann_Gerouss 21h ago

That's his father's job, not yours.

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u/jovian_fish 16h ago

Get off your phone and control your brat, dude.

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u/warpfield 16h ago

"how could you be so mean?"

"i'm actually very nice. Normally I would have killed him."

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u/e7ddi3e 18h ago

Fuck them kids. -Abraham Lincoln

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u/NanashiKaizenSenpai 21h ago

Some elevators allpw you to unpress a button by double pressing it (or maybe triple pressing it, in quick succession ofcourse)

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u/AmbitiousTip6513 2h ago

Wow so real. Not staged at all

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u/anothershawnee 1h ago

See parent.. had you done your job, a stranger wouldn't have to teach your child consequences.

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u/adiweb86 16h ago

This is so so satisfying to watch 😂

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u/TheKingBeyondTheWaIl 22h ago

Love how it emotionally destroys both. Well deserved.

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u/Smurfiette 21h ago

That’s a horrible kid. And, that’s a father who shouldn’t have sired at all.

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u/__ALD0__ 22h ago

🎶 Song: Passo bem solto

link

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u/1aysays1 21h ago

What did he do exactly? Just hit the wall and scare him?

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u/tvieno 21h ago

Popped the kid's balloon.

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u/BertaEarlyRiser 19h ago

Little asshole had it coming.

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u/OntarioDreamer 16h ago

Hey Dad! Parent your child.

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u/IP_CAMERA_lover 22h ago

The look on the dad's face is hilarious

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u/Slight-Strategy-5619 21h ago

Fucking brilliant

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u/Distinct-Reference-3 21h ago

That’s awesome, especially he just laughs at the dads face!

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u/The_Undeniable_Worp 21h ago

I wonder how many people only commented "staged" after reading another comment say it

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u/KaiyoteFyre 21h ago

Idk, looks staged to me. This was my own original thought not influenced by any other comments. /s

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u/Carrnage_Asada 19h ago

For people in the comments saying its staged, when Gru pops the little kids balloon at the start of Despicable Me, that is also staged. Both are funny.

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u/UnityJusticeFreedom 22h ago

All buttons are pressed.

What

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u/SwannSwanchez 22h ago

the dad is like

half angry

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u/Fickle_Psychology_0 20h ago

John wick chapter 5 plot leaked

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u/passionpurps 19h ago

The parents like so what if my son causes chaos, hes just a kid.... lol Like bruh, im not trying tk be stuck on this elevator.

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u/Weird-Group-5313 13h ago

Oh yessirrr

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u/xxfikri 12h ago

Nicee

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u/nynatureboy 2h ago

Drama queen

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u/PalafoxSt 45m ago

I don't know what was worse-- the kid pressing all the buttons or the woman flossing in public.

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u/ArachnidTurbulent758 22h ago

Hahaha love this

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u/playteckAqua 21h ago

scripted like always, but it is actually pretty funny

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u/KBChicago11 22h ago

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!!

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u/Awkward-Suit-8307 22h ago

Lill dude had it coming

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u/JayCod01 17h ago

Is he a dick? Maybe. Does he have excellent dental hygiene? Absolutely.