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More and more, we rely on gagets to help us with our daily life. Unfortunately, as Cracked points out, many of these gadgets lie to us on a daily basis. For example, you know those handy “door close” button on elevators?

Unfortunately, this is a lie from the Man to appease the masses. In most cases, elevator “door close” buttons do nothing. According to 47-year elevator maintenance veteran John Menville, the “door close” button is just there to give people the illusion of control. It’s a release valve so that after you have to wait for a million stupid things during the course of the morning, this isn’t the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes you to go postal on the elevator and maybe break something.

Full story at Cracked.

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