[samstave]

>Do you ever listen to yourself? Seriously, I was being brutally honest. Your comment ranks among the most pretentious and awful I've ever read on HN, and I received a link to it in an e-mail thread where the subject was you. There is no plane of existence where anything you have typed in this thread is normal, rational human behavior.

Seriously? Calling the emergency when I come out of a piss-filled elevator to a body convulsing on the floor on the platform is not an emergency? And when I am attempting to bring small children through a public service elevator where there is real risk of infectious disease? Complaining about this is "on no plane of existence rational"???

You're deluded.

[dragonwriter]

Your original story was that you use the emergency call button every time you use the elevator. You later added that the most recent time you used the elevator, there was a someone convulsing on the platform floor.

No one has suggested that the latter single incident was an inappropriate use of the emergency button, what people have said is that the former, recurring use was inappropriated.

> Complaining about this is "on no plane of existence rational"?

Complaining is not the isssue. Using the emergency call-button for those complaints when there is not an actual emergency is the issue.

[throwaway86]

> Calling the emergency when I come out of a piss-filled elevator to a body convulsing on the floor on the platform is not an emergency?

Yes, it is, and good for you for doing something. Minus the piss-filled elevator part, which is an irrelevant detail.

> And when I am attempting to bring small children through a public service elevator where there is real risk of infectious disease?

No, it isn't. The difference between these two was pointed out to you elsewhere, and now you're just being obtuse. Take the stairs. They're good for you. There are foldable strollers. I have a toddler and we love the stairs. He makes a game out of them.

I feel like I'm teaching second grade here, but an emergent situation is when someone is in immediate danger. Someone having a seizure is in danger. You using an elevator with contaminants in it is not an emergent situation. You probably need some education about when it's appropriate to call 911, as well.

> You're deluded.

Sigh.

[samstave]

I'm pretentious, yet you're teaching me as though I am a second grader, right.

You insinuated that I was "sheilding my precious kids from the homeless" and have stated that I'm pretentious for expecting a functional, clean elevator from a service which already pays a respectable income while threatening strikes if not given more money while doing nothing to fix their current issues.

So, while I obviously did a poor job expressing to you how I find a piss-filled elevator unacceptable - and you're clearly not bothered by human excrement in your public transportation systems - I find calling to the attention of the system, by the only means made available, perfectly reasonable. I also did that holding a standard for cleanliness for a system that wants more money an acceptable thing to expect as a user of the system.

[pg]

Please stop this, both of you.