Me and the missus were on a city break...
... in Manchester. Don't laugh, it was great. Good food, museums, shows, general good time, including the festival which was on and caused us to see this thing strutting its stuff on Albert Square: youtu.be/oKm2aOd62ZI

We stayed in the ridiculously tall Beetham Tower Hilton, and had just had breakfast or something in the first-floor restaurant and were waiting for the lift to go down to the ground.

Lift doors open. Two giggling blokes totter out of the lift, suppressing belly laughs. We get in, and it becomes obvious why they're amused. One of them has just dropped the mother of all guffs in the lift, and they've just left it there for us to appreciate. It was truly rank. They turn to leave the hotel... and realise with obvious horror that this is not, in fact, the lobby.

Sheepishly, as the doors are closing, they jab the button, and are forced to get back in the little box they've just polluted, and ride in awkward silence the one more floor to the ground with us, the people they'd tried to gas TO DEATH. They weren't laughing any more when they finally got to leave, but me and the missus were. In fact, we laughed about it on and off for most of the rest of the day.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:26, 3 replies)

Bad link is bad.
..but I liked the rest of it.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:27, closed)

1st floor to the lobby?
What's wrong with the stairs?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:30, closed)

You're right, of course, and ordinarily I would...
... except IIRC the layout of the place is such that the lift is two steps from breakfast and deposits you right by the door onto the street, whereas the stairs are somewhere hidden about 200 yards away and bring you out Bod knows where. They tried really hard to make everyone take the lift when designing the place. There's a bar on the 21st floor that, unless it's an emergency, is ONLY accessible by lift.
(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:58, closed)

Some people's commitment to fart bombing a lift
leaves much to be desired.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 14:26, closed)

Did you mean?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKm2aOd62ZI&feature=youtu.be
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:30, closed)

Yes.

(SonofRojBlake, Fri 17 Jan 2014, 13:55, closed)