That's a good point. If they were both smokers that'd be one thing, but that's pretty disrespectful to a guy who doesn't smoke. I might do it on a plane I knew was about to crash, but in a non life-threatening situation (I've been stuck in elevators too, in buildings without intercoms) just fucking hold off your nic fit. It'll only piss the other person off more if he's already got anger and temper issues to be surrounded in a cloud of smoke that's not going anywhere.

A smoker with asthma, even.

I'm going to assume that if you have someone who is much heavier than you and quite obviously insane in a confined space you'd probably ask if it's okay to smoke. The fact that the insane person wasn't going insane about the smoking in question, leads me to believe that prior exchange and consent had occurred.

If you smoke you are a crazy and dumb bastard so fucking stop killing children.

Oddeye, that's a better PSA than any of the shit I see in commercials. :)

Whoops didn't mean to star my own submission. I'm quitting slowly.. I started because I wanted more breaks at work, not because it was cool. If anything, the French guy with the black turtleneck drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes cliche turned me off, as did Joe Camel, as did my grandpa who had to go outside for some reason.. I never imagined that smoking a cigarette would get me into a hot tub with naked women. I just wanted to get away from people for 5 minutes.

There are four or five cables (or ribbons of kevlar in some modern traction elevators) and each one can support the weight of the elevator.

You have no idea how little I could care about the specifics. Do you get a boner every time you "correct" someone about a trivial subject?

I do get a half-chub when I can offer any useless advice about elevators.

CAPTAIN ELEVATOR OVER HERE

"Dumb guy"

Which dumb guy? I see 2.

Sorry, I meant the non-smoking crazy dumb guy. I could use either of them as a step-ladder in a pinch.

I see a laid-back douchebag and an angry fat person. They obviously don't like each other, and are playing off one another like an old married couple. This sort of interaction is normal, at least where I'm from.

They should just get to the fucking, only he's a smoker and no one wants to to fuck a smoker.

It wouldn't work, anyway. Skinny is too lazy and passive-aggressive to be anything but bottom, and fatty is clearly a top, only fatty is so out of shape that I doubt he could last five seconds without having a heart attack. What they needed was to flip roles: be a cowardly sarcastic slob and an Xtreme sports tweaker, respectively. Then their elevator relationship would have worked out perfectly.

Truly, the gods play cruel jokes on men.