If you were an elevator, what would you do??

Question

I need to personify an elevator for my english comp class. I know it's stupid, but he wants us to look at different perspectives. what does an elevator do besides go up and down?

Answer 1

I would put a sign in it that states:

24 Fun Things To Do In An Elevator...


1. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: "Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!"

2. Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.

3. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"

4. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.

5. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.

6. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.

7. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.

8. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.

9. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"

10. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, no, not now, damn motion sickness!"

11. Meow occasionally.

12. Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.

13. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.

14. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.

15. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.

16. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your beeper?"

17. Say "Ding!" at each floor.

18. Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.

19. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.

20. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."

21. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."

22. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

23. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.

24. Stop at every floor, run off the elevator, then run back on.

Answer 2

You could make the elevator interested in the conversations, maybe if it were a residential building, the elevator would get attached to the residents. Not sure if that's what your teacher meant, though.

Douglas Adams has a book where the elevator was a time machine and went off on its own. Can't remember which book that was in, but it was hysterical.

Answer 3

Think about what an elevator does in saving human labor:

quickly take people to great heights so they don't have to climb stairs is one example.

Think about what an elevator does to communicate with people:

For instance, they have noises/lights, to let people know it has arrived.

That kind of thing. Sounds like a fun assignment!

Answer 4

The funniest perspective would be from the old Bewitched show. Incompetent witches/warlocks were turned into common appliances. I would assume I was too old to cut the mustard.

Also you could look at the different types of elevators . . . from frieght (a beast of burden) to high class.

Answer 5

they help people to get where are going in a fire the elevator go the 1st floor they kill people some times

Answer 6

You could have Steven Tyler from Aerosmith singing inside you - that'll bring the house down.

Answer 7

its like a monster with bad breath that swallows ppl and spits them out whole. im scared of them have v bad clostrophobia plus most do smell v v v bad

hope that helps a bit

Answer 8

It opens and shuts its door. And occasionally stops if the power goes out.

Answer 9

i would take people up or down and open my doors when i am commanded 2 or when i have to

Answer 10

Listens to people's conversations.