A desultory last-ditch attempt to hijack the ride up failed, but at lunchtime, just for kicks, the overrider, boarding a downbound elevator occupied by three other passengers, who had pressed a couple of buttons, tried again, pressing "door close" and "16".
In Sweden, door knobs are practically absent and doors are opened by pressing a door handle.
But with the strike, the thing I have raised in prime minister's questions is the absurdity of Aslef objecting to drivers pressing the door buttons on Southern trains but not Thameslink ones".
Later: a drawn-out, early-morning fight in the Chelsea Hotel over distance, betrayal, and bad timing, concluding in another two-shot, this one framed by a door left ajar, before cutting to a shot of my finger pressing the door-close button in the elevator.
In contrast to the frenzied round of camera-friendly flesh-pressing, door-knocking and pint-sinking of the past few weeks of campaigning, Nigel Farage spent Sunday keeping an uncharacteristically low profile in the hours before the results of the European parliament elections.
North Korea, Iraq and Iran are pressing against the door.
"I was a little concerned that might be some trouble," because of the many people pressing outside the door to get in, said Vishakha N. Desai, the gallery director.
O'Brien then questioned Farage on his claim that he would feel uncomfortable if a group of Romanian men moved in next door, pressing him to say whether he "would feel the same about a group of German children", asking "what's the difference?" Farge somewhat ambiguously replied: "I think you know the difference.
For financial assets, price sets the demand.UPDATE: Just ran across this great analogy from Dylan Grice, the strategist at Societe Generale, who compares economists debating policy options to people pressing the "close door" button in elevators - it doesn't do them any good but it makes them feel better.
He was banging and I could feel his body pressing on my door.
When the two arrived at the center run by Captain Tracy, there was a crowd pressing against the doors.
