Impatience wrought in stainless steel
@pluralistic My favorite factoid is that those buttons are generally not even wired to anything, or if they are, they don't function unless the fire dept key is turned.

@dwhisper @pluralistic
The option for the door buttons to work or not will be specific to the elevator location, operation, and its maintenance,

But i wanted to say that i used to fix skee-balls and the factory key for their ticket dispensers worked in that elevator keyhole for me once

@RnDanger @dwhisper @pluralistic

I have worked in buildings where there were floors that were only accessible by a key on the elevator panel. Sometimes that's a secure level, sometimes it's a maintenance/HVAC level and all of the janitors have keys

@ElyseMGrasso @dwhisper @pluralistic
This elevator was in a place that actually had skee-ball machines (not the ones i worked on though) so your maintenance premise sounds likely to me