I took an elevator up to the 69th floor for a meeting and as I was getting out, the operator said, "Have a good day, son." I grumbled, "Don't call me son. You're not my dad."
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He scratched his head, "No, but I brought you up, didn't I?"
After my meeting, I got back on the elevator to go back down and the same operator was there.
I didn't say anything to him, but when we got to the ground floor, he said to me, "I'm sorry."
"Because you thought you were my dad?" I asked him.
He shook his head. "No, son, because I let you down."
otrebmU@reddit
69 in the title scrambled my eggs
2552686@reddit
The fact this joke centers on an elevator operator, a job that stopped existing in the 1960s, tells you how old this joke is.
RobertDigital1986@reddit
Fuckin AI
mjswart@reddit
An elevator operator is an old timey thing. A building with 70ish floors is a new timey thing. I love the contrast.
galt-john1984@reddit
At the Ohio State graduation ceremony in the Horseshoe (Ohio Stadium) 2 weeks ago there was an elevator operator. So there!
lukin187250@reddit
There are usually attendants in the elevators of any stadium with suite/club levels, can’t let the poors come wandering in!
dizzi800@reddit
Actually, NYC still has them! Mostly in very upscale and heritage buildings
drieggs@reddit
Eh, there are still some in NYC, just gotta be very rich.
benofepmn@reddit
there was one elevator operator still operating an elevator in an old building in downtown Minneapolis in the 1980s.
ObligationMurky8716@reddit
There's always haunted ones.
confused_vampire@reddit
This joke is funny on so many levels
jt00000@reddit
Two… Two levels…
3_Thumbs_Up@reddit
Like two levels.
Eversnuffley@reddit
Personally I felt shafted
NorfolkIslandRebel@reddit
Really? I feel rather uplifted.
jarheadatheart@reddit
I feel floored.
Mallev@reddit
It had its ups and downs.
ScaryRun619@reddit
It didn’t push your buttons?
Demoniac_smile@reddit
I felt kinda let down by it
Baftx@reddit
so elevating
NoNoNames2000@reddit
It floored me
sourisanon@reddit
it really makes you feel high and low at the same time
astrosid@reddit
i respect the commitment to making the joke work on both the way up and the way down
jert3@reddit
Really felt an elevated opener, with a lower decresendo finish .
Jakeprops@reddit
I’m just happy it’s not a lame 69 sex joke
SuspiciousRutabaga52@reddit
I used to be afraid of elevators. But I've taken steps to avoid them.
shanepal19@reddit
I was sure when they mentioned the 69th floor someone would get off
BIGD0G29585@reddit
Definitely had its highs and lows.
i_am_not_a_martian@reddit
Life certainly has its ups and downs.
Actually_Im_a_Broom@reddit
Especially when you let someone else push your buttons.
Dilated_Auntie6970@reddit
Zero gravity and fisting leads to hilarity - you ask sir please may I not halibagape, bwuelch bwuelch from below, and only if properly removed you get to choose squif squif, but a good chance of full forearm then bwuelch
halfwit_genius@reddit
Caught a typo. Lift, you meant. Right?
hightower65@reddit
The one at my office has a tag that says “vertical reciprocating conveyor”. I find myself using that description now.
Actually_Im_a_Broom@reddit
Especially when you let someone else push your buttons.
sephjnr@reddit
It works on so many levels.
maxdacat@reddit
It gave me a lift
DoFr56@reddit
Just two actually, you are either the 6 or the 9. Either way you should get a mouthful!
spiritsarise@reddit
The ending floored me.
MagnusPI@reddit
The first half really got a rise out of me.
Damien_J@reddit
It really pushed my buttons.
RhymesWithAndy@reddit
But at least in the end you come down.
iloveFjords@reddit
Sad ending for Darth Elevator. I’ll let myself out.
Short-Intention5732@reddit
I heard he was married to a lady named Ella.
DustyRacoonDad@reddit
At the end you just have to walk away.
ssealy412@reddit
Elevator!
EnvironmentalGift257@reddit
When I fart in an elevator I like to call it wrong on many levels. Alternatively I call it "The gates of hell."
foxfai@reddit
Some people probably didn't get the floor 69 either.
EatCrud@reddit
The commitment comments are always in the comments.
DreamLogic89@reddit
Love a joke that works on two levels.
alex61821@reddit
This joke really took me for a ride.
AdScared8114@reddit
the mark of a true craftsman truly LOL
PatientZeropointZero@reddit
The punch line would have been better if he said “goodbye Dad.”
Then the elevator guy was confused and it was because he had let him down.
Rated-E-For-Erik@reddit
Wow I guess this joke works on so many levels
ekbilangchota@reddit
Note to self: Not everything with 69 in it, is dirty!
ajcpullcom@reddit
shockingly the “69th floor” wasn’t part of the joke
StefanL88@reddit
The joke works going both ways.
Markkissus@reddit
no, a great slight-of-hand signal of the forthcoming inversion. “69th floor” sets the stage for the literal, as a literal illustrated inversion. going up and coming down both
aw_shux@reddit
That’s what let me down.
Quick_Extension_3115@reddit
That’s what gave me up
thegrateman@reddit
That’s what turned me around.
I_am_darkness@reddit
Not nice
Q-Vision@reddit
I guess he blew that one.
Koennraad@reddit
Would have been nice, oh well.
caversluis@reddit
Plot twist …
Amazing-Mirror-3076@reddit
I always tell my kids I am their god - I created them and I can destroy them.
They might argue that I did destroy them.
SureDiscount9175@reddit
That joke works on many levels
yParticle@reddit
"I brought you up, and I can take you down!"
deepinthot81@reddit
So they don’t both get off on 69?
SillyTr1x@reddit
Halfway down he stops and says I need to get some smokes and never cones back.
glossolalienne@reddit
Oh, c’mon. The final punchline of “You’re grounded!” was right there.
WombatGatekeeper@reddit
Haha this is a good one 😂
chronoffxyz@reddit
My dad was an operator back in the 70s. Used to tell me so many stories about the folks he would meet throughout his time. He said the people were the best part but the job itself had its ups and downs.
RelevantRabbit4207@reddit
you really escalated that for no reason
NorfolkIslandRebel@reddit
On the other hand, some may say he avoided escalation.
screwcork313@reddit
I knew an elevator operator once who would always decorate his workplaces with crimson paint. He could sing too, you might well have heard of him - Otis Redding.
Myghost_too@reddit
He was not grounded in reality....
mampersat@reddit
Folks born in the UK don't call them elevators. They call them lifts.
It's a difference in upbringing.
Objective_Elk7834@reddit
Stop
Blue_foot@reddit
The Minnesota Vikings have a service where players will serve as pall bearers at funerals.
For fans who want to be let down by the Vikings just one more time.
Unhappy-Response-742@reddit
As a packer fan, I love this one!
Automatic-Prompt-450@reddit
Username doesn't check out
Blue_foot@reddit
Decades of disappointment
hew3@reddit
Hehehe “meeting on the 69th floor” wink wink nudge nudge.
theunixman@reddit
Had me coming and going
The_Autarch@reddit
elevator operator? is this joke from 1922?
Meggandy@reddit
the double joke makes this fun
Interesting_Pea_5382@reddit
😊 thanks ‼️
Blueporch@reddit
Those are definitely Dad jokes
Famous_Chicken1919@reddit
I remember my first elevator ride was uplifting, the second was a let down!
MasterTony127@reddit
In the 1950s they actually HAD elevator operators. How old is this?
rekabis@reddit
This joke works best before the 1960s, when elevators still had dedicated operators who worked the elevator for those who needed to travel on it.
able_trouble@reddit
It could be rebuilt with an AI talking, lot of elevators tells you the Floor now. Make it slightly absurd. Maybe a voice activated elevator.
snowlock27@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4
able_trouble@reddit
It doesn't work , in the joke the guy does not go to 11...:-)
rekabis@reddit
The day they try to use AI to control an elevator is the day I will take the stairs no matter how many floors I have to climb.
The last thing I need is some wildly-hallucinating piece of software sending me at free-fall speeds into the basement.
BabyNarad@reddit
The guy got a closure at the end.
Relevant_Ad6908@reddit
This is good on several levels.
-Clayburn@reddit
Elevators don't have operators.
jimmyjazz2000@reddit
That’s the best elevator pun I’ve ever heard. (Which, that’s not a massively high bar, but it’s something.)
Altruistic-Map1881@reddit
The floor level was a red herring
SimilarBug2482@reddit
Genuine Dad joke!
jdmcdaid@reddit
This joke has the dead giveaway of a quality dad joke: It’s physically painful. :)
QuixoticDude@reddit
After 69, did he travel upside down?
Jazzlike_Way3801@reddit
Best dad joke so far 😀😂
Democratic_Indian@reddit
I guess for him the rickroll wasn't true.
TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit
Life as an elevator operator has its ups and downs.
1VrySxyGuy@reddit
My first time using an elevator was an uplifting time.
The second time let me down.
Fed-4-2day@reddit
I love the irrelavence of the 69 reference
NorthFLSwampMonkey@reddit
He got off on 69.
Yaongyaong@reddit
This reminds me of a Korean joke about a woman boat captain. In Korean, ship and belly are homophones(배, pronounce something like bay). So the dude step up, the captain greeted, hi, husband. To the confused guy, she said you got on my belly. When he stepped off, she said, bye son, now you came out from my belly.
NewArborist64@reddit
Now THAT is a Dad Joke.
AdCharacter414@reddit
He could have stopped one floor before the last and said "Sorry to leave you hangin'."
MajesticPosition7424@reddit
The 1940s called. They want their elevator operator back.
KedarKantha@reddit
Predictable 😀
LesFogginGoh@reddit
elevator operator???? HOLY OK BOOMER….
Wolham@reddit
Does this mean if you help someone up a flight of stairs you become a step-dad?
winthroprd@reddit
Rick Astley would never have allowed this.
Wind-and-Waystones@reddit
I tried to borrow an animated movie from him once. He only had one in his collection I wanted to see. He told me I couldn't borrow it. That bastard was never gonna give me Up.
mipish1@reddit
And in doing so, he let you down.
Sathane@reddit
This is called The Astley Paradox.
SuspiciousPeanut251@reddit
Great. Now that’s gonna be running around in our heads all day.
ThrillRoyal@reddit
And hurt us while doing so.
Moonrajah@reddit
Don't fret, in the end it will still desert us
joejoeaz@reddit
He also never would have run around and deserted him, but yet, here we are.
lukin187250@reddit
trapped in the elevator, because he is never going to say goodbye.
baron--greenback@reddit
Oh ffs, I thought the lyric was dessert and now it makes sense
anothercynic2112@reddit
Dessert as a verb should be a thing. "I wanna dessert your ass"
josefban@reddit
He would never give him up.
Coigleach@reddit
10/10
b5tirk@reddit
Groan!
Wretchro@reddit
ah... "dad" jokes
Astromites@reddit
This joke didn't let me down though
OlDustyHeadaaa@reddit
I tell my boss all the time we need to get into the elevator repair business.
It can really take you to high places
Bondedknight@reddit
Be nice to the people you meet on your way up, because you will meet the same people on the way down
jamesianm@reddit
The next day I took the elevator again, but this time it stopped on the 10th floor, then the 3rd, then the 16th, then the 5th, then the 23rd, befoee finally getting to the 69th floor.
"What the hell was that about?" I demanded.
"Sorry son," he replied. "Elevator's out of order todsy."
Vast-Sir-1949@reddit
Nice
Apprehensive-Pin518@reddit
he's never gonna give it up.
KamtzaBarKamtza@reddit
Lol, it's a cute joke assuming that anyone here is old enough to even know what an elevator operator was
darrenturn90@reddit
The joke was wrong on so many levels
-CaptainCaveman-@reddit
Best humor is in the comments
pwuk@reddit
This is just wrong, on so many levels!
SnarkKnuckle@reddit
I got off.
KnoWanUKnow2@reddit
How is an elevator better than your dad?
At least an elevator is capable of raising a child.
rubes6@reddit
I grew up hearing the British version of this elevator joke--I guess we were just raised differently
ScaryRun619@reddit
Did it give you a lift?
Electrical_Tomato_73@reddit
He brought you up to 69, but was it he who let you down?
aipac125@reddit
The next day, I complained to his supervisor. Both of us got walked over to the elevator on the ground floor as other people got in. "I have decided to take this up with your manager".
The supervisor quietly told him to cease the puns as people exited at their floors. He nodded his head. As I exited on the 69th floor, he pressed the button to return to the ground floor. "You're going down, old man".
DelcoDubbz@reddit
I don’t call you son ‘cause you’re mine, I call you sun ‘cause you shine.
Hot-Idea2428@reddit
There are multiple stories to this joke
oldthunderbird@reddit
It’s all good dad, I get down like that
mdbh86@reddit
I fully expected that he was going to say to ground him...
TazocinTDS@reddit
This is emotionally complex on so many levels.
Frank_Majors@reddit
This joke rose me to laughter and then lowered me to tears.
Xtrainman@reddit
Jokes definitely has it's up's and downs.
SumerWar@reddit
This is the best joke I have read on this site for years.
Guilty_Ad_4441@reddit
This has really given me a lift
Nolongeranalpha@reddit
At least he let you down gently.
No-Stay3118@reddit
What goes up , Must come down.
mrmitchs@reddit
At least he came back.