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by 8n4vidtmkvmk 1069 days ago
One more trend I hate.. touch panels on elevators instead of buttons. My current hotel the "buttons" are so finicky you have to press with like the entirety of your thumb for like 3 seconds in exactly the right location for it to activate.

My wife and I were fiddling with it for a minute trying to go down and a cleaning staff noticed us struggling, came over, and then it took him 20 seconds to trigger it too! Tried using his knuckle to trigger it. C'mon!

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You'll be thankful when the mischievious child who boarded 100 floors above you wasn't able to smear his hand across the whole panel and significantly delay the elevator.
Only 5 floors but if the panels worked correctly it might be even easier to swipe.