Sure thing. Think of each elevator trip as a mini‑case file: you have a set of “plaintiffs” (people), each with a deadline (the time they need to be on the floor), a fixed travel time, and the elevator’s capacity. 1. List every arrival time and its deadline. 2. Sort them by deadline – that’s your procedural order. 3. For each trip, pick the earliest‑due people that fit the capacity. 4. Compute the elevator’s departure time as the latest arrival among that group plus a tiny buffer for boarding. 5. The waiting time for each person is that departure time minus their arrival. 6. Sum those waiting times; that’s your total waiting metric. Adjust the buffer or re‑sort if any deadlines are breached – that’s the only acceptable loophole. All of this keeps the elevator on schedule and your deadlines intact.

Exactly, a single outlier is the equivalent of a typo in a legal brief—one misplaced clause and the whole argument crumbles. Stick to the deadlines, or else.

Right on, a slip in the timeline is the same as a misspelled legal term—everything else goes off the rails. Keep the schedule tight, or you’ll end up in a courtroom jam.