It can be annoying, when you have entered an elevator that is parked at a floor (typically the lobby), and, just as the "dwell-time" delay is ending, and the doors begin to close, someone rushes toward the elevator--not fast enough to get through the doors on their own, but close enough that someone on-board feels obliged to press the Door Open button, causing the doors to re-cycle again, and delaying your trip up. It gets more annoying when it happens repeatedly on the same elevator trip. I'm pretty sure it is also generally less efficient--from a big-picture traffic-handling (i.e., throughput) perspective. Yet it seems un-mannerly to refrain from attempting to hold the train for one's fellow.
I have a solution.
After registering your floor call in the elevator, move as far away as possible from the button panel. That way, when you see someone rushing toward the elevator, instead of reaching over and hitting the Door Open button, you can just stand there and look sympathetic as you watch, helplessly, while the doors slide together, and your brief elevator journey begins, without undue delay. Or for extra-credit, make a show of reaching, ineffectually, toward the panel, as the doors close and you take off.
7:20:45 PM 
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