This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_910732060_boundary Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_910732060_boundary Content-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: [log in to unmask] Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: Elevator Fun Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:11:48 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >* 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?!?" --part0_910732060_boundary--