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Gail believes that it is important to HAVE FUN and LAUGH every day!

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Fun Things to Do in an Elevator

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Whistle the first seven notes of 'It's a Small World' incessantly.
3. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
4. On a long ride, crash from side to side as if you're on rough seas.
5. Shave. (Especially if you're a woman.)
6. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask:"Got enough air in there?"
7. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
8. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
9. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed
when they open by themselves.
10. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you, "Admiral".
11. 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.
12. Do Tai Chi exercises.
13. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I've got new socks on!"
14. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back, "Oh, not now. Damn motion sickness!"
15. Meow occasionally.
16. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
17. Frown and mutter "Gotta go, gotta go," then sigh and say, "oops!"
18. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
19. Sing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," while continually pushing buttons.
20. Holler, "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
21. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
22. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce, "You're one of THEM!" and move to
the far corner of the elevator.
23. Leave a box between the doors.
24. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
25. Wear a puppet on your hand and make it talk to the other passengers.
26. Start a sing-along.
27. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask, "Is that your beeper?"
28. Play the harmonica.
29. Shadow box.
30. Say, "Ding!" at each floor.
31. Lean against the button panel.
32. Say, "I wonder what all these do," and push the red buttons.
33. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
34. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that
this is your "personal space".
35. Bring a chair along.