dr_whom

The elevators in the building the linguistics department is in are slow and unreliable and annoying. The linguistics department is on the fourth floor ("sorry, could you repeat that?" "fourth floor!"), and I've decided to try and save a bit of people's time by not making the elevator make too many extra stops: if someone pushes the elevator button for the third or fifth floor, I'll go there and take the stairs to the fourth floor rather than make the elevator stop on the fourth floor also.

So what happened today is, I got on the elevator with a bunch of people on the first floor; they pushed the buttons for the fifth and sixth floors, so I didn't push the fourth-floor button and planned to get off at the fifth. The elevator, for some reason, decided to go down to the basement first (see above re "unreliable and annoying"), where someone pushed the third-floor button. So when the elevator got to the third floor, I got off and took the stairs to the fourth.

So now I'm wondering, what do the people who got on the elevator with me think my deal was, getting off the elevator on a floor whose button wasn't pushed when I got on? It makes perfect sense to me, but I assume everyone else on the elevator thought that I forgot where I was going, or don't understand how elevators work, or didn't actually have a destination in mind.