Ever since I got stuck in an elevator while at court, I have been extra cautious to make sure it doesn't happen again. Of course, one really cannot control these things. However, there are certain things you can do to minimize any potential problems like staying in the front, not getting on an overcrowded elevator, taking the stairs.
Now, time makes the memory quite distant. Heck, even when I got stuck and vowed never to step foot on an elevator again, I took an elevator down a mere hour later. Denial is a beautiful thing. Since that event, years ago, I have gone on elevators more times than I can count without a second thought.
Until the other day.
I was chatting with a guy I work with when he told me this story:
Did I tell you I saw a guy trapped in our elevator? I was heading out and went to push the button when I look down and see fingers coming out of the elevator. Then I saw a head. The guy looked at me and said "Can you help me?" So then I took the stairs.
After I stopped laughing from the image of fingers coming out of the elevator and a small voice saying "Can you help me?", I managed to ask him if he sought any help for the guy before he went down the stairs and he assured me that he told our receptionist to call someone.
That was the beginning of my thoughts that I should take the stairs. Yesterday the wiseness of that idea was confirmed. I got on the elevator with two guys from my floor:
Guy1: Do you know Adolph?
Guy2: Not really.
Guy1: Well he got stuck on the elevator last week between two floors.
Me: I heard about that! He was sticking his fingers and head out.
Guy1: They didn't get him out for two and a half hours.
TWO AND A HALF HOURS? Are you kidding me? Then my friend at work told me that he heard that the guy got himself out by prying open the doors and jumping UP. PRYING HIMSELF OUT. I about had a heart attack right there. I went home and told B it was only stairs for me from now on. Thank goodness we are on the third floor.
So this morning I went to work chanting "Stairs, stairs, stairs" in my head. Come to find out you can go down the stairs, but not up. They are locked. LOCKED! For our safety or something. Don't they realize that for MY SAFETY I need to access the stairs. It is a conspiracy I tell you. So I have made some ground rules:
- I will not get on the elevator if I even think I might have to pee
- I will not get on the elevator with more than two people
- I will always have my phone with me on the elevator
- I will always use the stairs whenever I can (sometimes people come out when you need to go up - SCORE).
- I will stop thinking about possible problems
I am armed. I am dangerous. I am fearless.
I need to work on the ground floor.
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i always avoid elevators if i can take the stairs instead, so much safer and better for me that way, haha.
Wow more problems with elevators. What the??? I generally don't have a problem with elevators but your blog is making me terrified of them!
I got stuck in an elevator once. Best hour and a half of my life. My solitude was ruined by the technician, a hairy mexican with bad B.O.
Kateline - you are a smart woman. And probably in shape.
J - I truly did not mean to turn this into a horror blog about elevators, but it is my duty to warn the public. If it is any consolation, our elevators are old as hell.
BoBo - welcome back my long lost friend. I wouldnt mind the solitude except that the only time I got stuck it was jammed with people. I prefer never to be that close to that many people ever! If I close my eyes, I can still see them all despite this occuring three years ago. Stuff that creates nightmares, that is.
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