What to do Riding up an Elevator

How to avoid awkward social contact and pleasantry exchange when riding up an elevator with fellow co workers in the morning.

 Blackberry or handheld obsessed:-

• Even you are two minutes away from your desktop, you can't wait to whip out your Blackberry pretending to be reading and replying emails, showing off your thumb typing skills.
• Listen to your music and make sure the volume is high enough to broadcast your good music taste.
• Twitter update.

For those without handheld device as a prop:-

• Pretend you are looking for something in your bag.
• Pretend to be reading the New York Times.
• Pretend to be reading the Wall Street Journal.
• Pretend to be reading some top ten novel.  Don't read it on a iPad or a Kindle, because they are a conversation piece.  It's conversation you want to avoid.
• Pretend to be reading some self help books (if you want to look like a loser, go ahead, any five simple ways, or the last self help book would broadcast yourself as a loser.  Even if you read it on an iPad or a Kindle, you are still a loser, just a well to do loser).

For those without any props or bags:-

• Keep looking at the buttons.
• Keep looking at your own nose.
• Alternate between looking at the buttons and your nose

 Have a nice ride everybody.