I think you have the elevator example crossed. My random testing suggests the door open button always works. The close button sometimes is as you say, just to make people feel like they have a measure of control.

Go on your own. You likely know this, but saying it just in case.

But you have to have $$ for it be worth a lawsuit. Notice in this case they don’t even keep records, so it’s likely hard to even fight them using their own papers. Better would be to contest in federal court using the Supreme Court opinion imo

Now. What about before?

There is an effective formula for feedback I like.

1. When you x it has y effect
2. Pause for them to reply, ask questions, or even better - suggest an alternative
3. It would be better if z

In this case, when you make repeat the same joke it loses all humor value and becomes an annoyance.

It would be better if jokes were limited in use, and certainly not repeated.

Whoosh

If you need to live at 5% of current costs, you’ll need go further down the oecd country list than Mexico.

Saw a clip where Jon Stewart asked some politician on the right why it was revered for someone like Trump to pay no taxes or as minimal taxes as possible because they took advantage of the tax loopholes but a lower class person using the system to their benefit to get things like food stamps or take unemployment insurance with somehow weakness. Both of them are just using the system as built to their benefit was the argument.

Hey, a thousand buys a lot of lottery tickets…

=)