ah, good old library lifts.
today i got into one of the lifts at level 2 (with a bunch of other people). once inside, people pressed levels 9 and 10 (someone tried to press 5 but that didn't seem to work at all). the buttons lit up and the lift moved up. it then stopped at level 8, which none of us had pressed, and where no one got into the lift.
the lift then proceeded to go all the way back down. to level 1.
we tried pressing the buttons again, and the lift didn't move at all, so we all got out and tried another lift. tried the same thing there, pressing levels 9 and 10, and - no movement.
"it's not moving at all, is it?" someone commented.
so we all trooped out of that one too and went our separate ways, after being pointlessly taken
down a floor.
is this a regular occurence for those lifts?