If you need to take the elevator one floor, make darn sure you have a show cane so people won't judge you as much.

@1: And don't slow down everyone else to take that one floor either. I still wanted to commit murder against the asshole who held the rest of us up for a good 15 seconds while he finished a conversation with his friend before letting the door close. That isn't a large unit of time, but when you're packed in with strangers and just want to be home, it lasts forever. But of course the rest of us were far too Seattle about it, and merely glared at the back of his empty head, rather than snap at him.

Is this a residential or business elevator? Heaven help these rule-writers if they ever have to ride a NYC subway!

I voted for the etiquette note, and it's the length and exhaustive litany of tops that have me smiling. Any time there's no sign necessary, some Seattle dork makes a sign, and anytime a simple print out of Fonzie with the words "Be Cool" would suffice, it turns into the Magna Carta. Thanks for sharing.

I LOVE this sign! True, it shouldn't be necessary - this is basic stuff that every urban dweller should know by heart - but the sad fact is a lot of Seattleites don't. Especially the part about not holding the doors open for a latecomer if there are already a bunch of other people in the car. DON'T DO THIS! I know your intentions are good, but in trying to be courteous to one person, you are being discourteous to several.

One thing I would add to this list: When calling an elevator, press ONLY the button for the direction you want to go. Pressing both Up and Down won't get you there any faster, and will likely needlessly delay a carful of people going the other way. I see this happen in public buildings all the damn time, in particular the downtown library (where the elevators are plenty slow as it is).

We need an escalator etiquette article please!!!!

This is one of the most seattle things i’ve ever seen.
It hits on like multiple levels
-people feel the need to give these detailed instructions for two weirdly related reasons:
1)people don’t really believe in etiquette here, except for 2) getting pissy whenever anyone inconveniences you. Then hyping your rudeness up like its the worst thing ever. Taking an elevator one story? Guess you don’t give a damn about someone with a wheelchair (frosty glare).
or like this one person “justs wants to get home “, and wishes they had been more direct. oh i’m sure your melodramatic sigh and accompanying glare was noticed. If you hate people, leave the city, it has the highest concentration of people for thousands of miles duh lol.
I came from the east coast tem years ago and i’m honestly confused by now. i don’t know if i’m rude or they’re rude. ..
i’ve never lived somewhere with so few social rules, but never lived anywhere where everyone is so pissy about everything everyone else does, to the point where they try to make it a moral issue. just sad introverts. haha. o there’s no easy answer, its a changing population.

@8, having lived in seattle and on the east coast, i have a lot of thoughts. i think seattle has a metric ton of etiquette and rules, which all extend from some principle like "assume everyone is totally absorbed in their own work, so politeness is making a visible effort not to interrupt them more than the absolute minimum required". i think what feels like an absence of etiquette to east coast transplants is seattleites' total lack of interest in being understood by or identifying in any way with strangers. seattleites are cats, winning in their solo competition with themselves, and on the east coast it seems more like dogs, who are always interested in other dogs and happy to sniff a butt as the price of membership. i heard somewhere this is the scandinavian influence in seattle, but that seems unfair to scandinavians.
this crazy elevator list is a masterpiece of seattitude. im saving it forever as proof.
and as much as i have grown to appreciate dogs, i have to admit to being a cat.
and my husband is saying portmanteaus like seattitude are beneath us and are gonna get me put on a list.