Sooo… the reason I’m posting this is mostly for laughs and cackles. The reason I’m posting this right now is because I just got a phone call from a friend saying that it still very much works… I do hope I do not offend anyone, as this method is a little off-kilter, but hey, I was a horny, immoral 18.5 yr old when I came up with it.
My first year in college I lived in the dorms. Great for meeting and hooking up with people, crappy if you like alone time. Thankfully, I don’t like alone time. The dorms are 6 story buildings reminiscent of those in most Chernobyl pictures with a single elevator up the middle. Now these elevators are most entertaining, there have been pillowfights, water fights, sleepovers, and even parties in this elevator in my dorm and they are modified to the point that you really cant break em. Also, the fan never worked so it was always pretty hot in there. Anyhew…
The first time I came across this idea was in a power outage. Here I was, in the elevator, in my boxers+shirt+flops coming back from laundry with a girl who was doing the same in her flannel pj’s. We were stuck on the 3.67th floor for about 25 minutes. Well, it just so happened that she was also a horny, immoral 18.5 yr old who had just broken off with her bf and was already pretty worked up. After about 20 minutes of silence, then awkward silence, then hot and sweaty chatting, I say something to the effect of “Well, it’s situations like these that I always keep a condom in my wallet”, she says “How often has that worked out for you”, I say “There’s a first time for everything” etc… We’re just about to go for it when the power comes back on. To this day, I still wish the power would have stayed off for at least another 10 minutes…
Anyways, one of the popular jokes to play on folks in the elevator is getting them temporarily stuck. The elevators had double doors and if you attempt to pry them open when the lift isn’t there, you can only get about an inch of space. Well, if you get even a cm of space open, the doors wont open when the car arrives and the folks in the lift are stuck until someone outside on that floor presses the button or the mechanic resets the lift. So if your friend is taking the elevator, you can rush down the stairs and prop open the door and leave them stranded while you go to dinner.
The gambit. I found out that you could prop a dime between the doors and the lift would be stuck. Nobody on the second floor would ever take the lift except for the extremely lazy ones who were always in bed by 9, so when I would go out, I would stick a dime in the door of the second floor. When I would come back with a girl, I would hit floor two which is next to floor five, mine, (two vert rows of 3) and say it was on accident or something like that. When the lift got to two, 8 out of 10 times, the lift was stuck. Now, I have never been laid in an elevator no matter how much I wanted to, but I could always escalate and usually be missing my shirt by the time we reached my room (thank god my roommate lived with his gf). Once the girl would start getting worried or something, I would try the usual things people do in an elevator and then I would eventually kick the door. A good kick could knock the dime loose and all would be well and I would be cool. I would usually end up doing the laundry again the next morning.
Is it sly? Yes. Underhanded? Sure. Immoral? ehh, maybe, depending on your morals. But I have just received confirmation that the elevators here are as great a hook up prop as any out there.