Fun in the Elevator!

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

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

* Start a sing-along! Suggestions: "Your Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine" or "R-E-S-P-E-C-T."

* Say, "I wonder what all these do?" and start pushing all the red buttons.

* Bet the other passengers you can balance a quarter in your nose.

* Bring a patio chair along.

* When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"

* Carry a blanket a clutch it protectively.

* Excitedly ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.

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

* Wear a hand puppet and talk to the other passengers through it .

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

* Stare at your thumb and say, "Bigger. I think it's getting bigger."

* Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering "Shut up! All of you just shut UP!"

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

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

* If anyone brushes against you, recoil fiercely and scream, "BAD TOUCH!"

* Jump in the air when the elevator starts or stops moving. Convince other passengers that they just HAVE to try this!

* Sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" while pushing buttons to the notes.

* Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.

* Make race car noises when people get on and off.

* On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural resonance frequency of the elevator.

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

* 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 "pink" at the bottom.

* Meow occasionally. (Or do the baby noises thing if you can.)

* Sell Girl Scout Cookies.

* Play the accordion.

* Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.

* Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off. (Add occasional muffled sobs if desired.)

* Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

* Take a big bite of a sandwich and quickly ask another passenger, "I'm surry, I dedn't bring e-nuf for you. Wannabite?"

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

* Shave.

* Say "DING!" at each floor.

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

* When you get off at your floor, and know the elevator will stop a couple floors away, race to the stairs and be standing directly in front of the doors when they open up and say, "HI, Remember me?!?"

- Compiled by: laughalot-owner@graceweb.org