Yes but I don’t think I’m ready to talk about it yet. In fact, I just can’t. If this thread is still around in the future I’ll share.
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Ever been stuck in an elevator?
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If you had a traumatic experience then I'm sorry to hear it.
This thread may not stay active as long as the Bacon thread, but you're welcome back anytime.
Thank you! It wasn't that traumatic but I think I rather not share. Just reading my post for errors brings back unwanted memories lol. But I'm fine and everything's good. I'm sure one day I'll look back and tell my friends the story and just laugh about it.
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August 2019
First and hopefully last!
I was stuck in the elevator at my place of employment (hospital)
When I got on at the third floor i hit the button for first floor, doors shut fine but the elevator immediately started jerking very hard. Like up and down really fast!
Needless to say I immediately started to get nervous. Had no idea what was going on. So i hit the button for 2 nd floor. Again it just jerked up and down very fast and for about 20 seconds. I know that doesn’t seem long but picture yourself trapped, no idea what floor you are on and being jerked around. I then hit the open button. Then all buttons. I wanted off, didn’t care where, just off. All the time elevator is still jerking up and down. I called a fellow worker and he called out to maintenance. They knocked on the outside doors until I heard and knocked back. I was almost but not completely on 2nd floor. They pried the doors open and removed the cart that I had with me. Then telling me to “get off, don’t stop or hesitate” needles to say every horror movie involving an elevator crossed through my mind. I quickly got out of elevator. Safely! Thank god! I will definitely never forget that experience. For the remainder of the day I had a horrible tension headache with aching neck and shoulders.
First and hopefully last!
I was stuck in the elevator at my place of employment (hospital)
When I got on at the third floor i hit the button for first floor, doors shut fine but the elevator immediately started jerking very hard. Like up and down really fast!
Needless to say I immediately started to get nervous. Had no idea what was going on. So i hit the button for 2 nd floor. Again it just jerked up and down very fast and for about 20 seconds. I know that doesn’t seem long but picture yourself trapped, no idea what floor you are on and being jerked around. I then hit the open button. Then all buttons. I wanted off, didn’t care where, just off. All the time elevator is still jerking up and down. I called a fellow worker and he called out to maintenance. They knocked on the outside doors until I heard and knocked back. I was almost but not completely on 2nd floor. They pried the doors open and removed the cart that I had with me. Then telling me to “get off, don’t stop or hesitate” needles to say every horror movie involving an elevator crossed through my mind. I quickly got out of elevator. Safely! Thank god! I will definitely never forget that experience. For the remainder of the day I had a horrible tension headache with aching neck and shoulders.
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Did you avoid that elevator after that, or did you have no choice but to keep using it?
No, but I’ve been stuck on an escalator. Twice.
I was going to say this as I have never been stuck in an elevator.
Really frustrating huh? On the bright side I was stuck with a nice person to chat with until it started moving again.
@jdechko - Are you saying I could have just walked down?
Don’t let me tell you how to live your life.
Or up, but there might be a surcharge or fee.@jdechko - Are you saying I could have just walked down?
Actually I was in the middle of the Mekong Delta. There’s no shrooms in the brown water cane fields.
I've been stuck on an escalator many times. You see, at least here elevators have an emergency stop button at the top and bottom under a plastic lid. Sometimes unruly youth or asswipes, as I like to call them, hit those buttons and run away if there isn't a security guard nearby. And those steps are terrible to walk on.
It also stops when you kick those brushes where the escalator handrails disappear into the base near the floor. An asswipe friend told me that.
I know the tiny brushes on the sides of the steps if they're there, but not that nor have I seen such a thing. Most of the hand rails I've seen travel into a 180* path and down into a cubby with a closed gap slit. What's worse is that it used to be that if you pushed the button, it'd sound a dull alarm tone so store or mall staff could look to it. Now it's silent for the most part. Anyway, malls are becoming a thing of the past. The hottest trend now is closed off streets of stores, sometimes stores with 2-3 levels with their own elevators or escalators, albeit escalators for your cart if they offer one.It also stops when you kick those brushes where the escalator handrails disappear into the base near the floor. An asswipe friend told me that.
Basically, it's what was available before malls. We're back to square one.
I'd imagine Saigon today still needs major work. Funny you bring up your hometown. It came up in some research recently and it looks surprisingly good. I knew Iowa had gone through a Renaissance period at some point in the 90s and 00s but wasn't sure of the extent of that.
I just wish re-development would stop around here. It's a bitch and a half to get into town and back in under an hour with all the side roads you have to take to avoid closed off streets due to construction or reroading (or whatever the technical term is).
Wow, the working side of Cedar Rapids went through a makeover back then. Amazing you knew of it. I was already living and working in The City then. Quite a transformation.
I heard we lost one in Riverside Monday night. Damn shame.
Only slightly off topic, but I recently learned that stranger things season 3 was filmed in my local, now-abandoned mall.
On topic, I do have memories of accidentally getting on the elevator without my family and having to wait for it to come back (I was probably 8 or 9 so I while was only “trapped” for 30 sec it felt like longer). Also I’m sure that I saw at least 1 kid get their shoelaces caught in the escalator