I was stuck in an elevator last night for 10 minutes and I totally freaked out!!! My life kept flashing before my eyes. I thought about my kids and my husband and how I would never see them again. And then I thought about how my body wouldn't be found until the next morning and how my husband would be frantically calling the cops to locate me. Yes, I was completely overdramatic. I hate elevators!!!
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Yikes!! Never! And I hope to never get stuck in one..!
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@banana: that totally freaks me out. That is my WORST nightmare right now, since I live in an elevator building. Mainly because I'm pregnant and often, by the time I get home, I am dying to pee. So I keep picturing myself having to pee in the elevator with other people right there.
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our elevator gets stuck much too often, it's a funky old building! I try to remember to take my phone with me when I walk the dogs but I always forget
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@Anagram: I would die if I was pregnant and stuck in an elevator. This is my third time being stuck! Twice I was alone and once I had 3 people in there with me. I'd rather have people there. Being stuck alone sucks booty!
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I'm claustrophobic so whenever the elevator doors don't open RIGHT AWAY I could feel my heart start to race. I think I would have a nervous breakdown if I was stuck in an elevator alone.
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@Mrs. Chen: I'm claustrophobic AND I have a fear of heights so I was totally dying! I hope you never get stuck in one. It's horrible!
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@banana: did you push the emergency button, and did they respond right away?
I have a friend that (if she's going to be working or living in a new building for some time) will pretend to "accidentally" push the emergency button on the elevator, just to make sure someone responds right away. THen she'll be like, "oh, my bag just hit the button--it was a mistake, sorry!"
I might just need to do that in my own apartment, just to make sure...
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haha no! but this thread made me laugh because anytime I watch Young and the Restless and someone pregnant gets in an elevator, you just KNOW they are going to get stuck and go into labour!
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Nope, never.
My dad works on elevators. Growing up I'd rode on top of them, been below them, helped work on them (the easy stuff of course). It's fun! And definitely helped mennot be scared of them.
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Nope.. but I did get stuck INSIDE my college dorm room. The mechanism on the door handle broke so when you turned the knob the latch wasn't catching. They had all sorts of people from the maitenance team trying to sort it out. When they started talking about sending up a bucket truck to our 3rd floor window my roommate decided she had had enough and she got a screwdriver and pried the knob off the door. Problem solved : )
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Yes. We all (Mr. T, infant Lorelei (like two months old?), and Ellie) got stuck in the elevator at the doctor's office. Made me totally claustrophobic!
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never. but i can't say i have never worried about it!
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SO and I got stuck in an elevator for 2 1/2 hours at a luxury resort in Mexico during a storm.
The elevator was a glass one and was on the edge of the hotel, so we were stuck in there with no lights, but could see all the lightning around us.
I had a panic attack and I called my mom from my cell phone to tell her I loved her.
I am so thankful SO spoke Spanish to communicate with the rescue workers.The hotel ended up comping us a future stay in a suite, and a 80 minute couples massage.
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Yes! I was stuck with a friend for about 45 minutes in our university dorm elevator. The call button didn't work so we had to shout until someone heard us to call facilities management. It was an adventure!!
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Yes, I got stuck in an elevator at a hotel in Italy with 5 other people. I was freaked out..,
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I have in my work building. It was the end of the day and was also winter, so everyone had their winter coats on and the elevator was packed. We were in there probably around 10 minutes, but everyone was sweating!
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@banana: my DH works on elevators and I'm still scared of them. It doesn't help that's turns them off when he is in one with me. I've never been stuck though. For me it's the claustrophobia that freaks me out. Not really the elevator itself.
@Anagram: my DH will get false calls on people stuck sometimes. Maybe this is the reason LOL.
@Koolbreeze: my DH works on them too. He is a service guy. He always wants to take DS on his calls!
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@MamaJ: OMG can you ask your SO if elevators can ever just fall from malfunction? That's my biggest freak out worry!
@Anagram: I pushed the call button at least 20 times and nobody responded! I was totally freaking out. None of the buttons were working and nothing was lighting up. After 10 minutes, the elevator started moving up and then paused for a few seconds and then started moving down. When the doors open I literally JUMPED out. There was a security guy outside and I told him that the stupid call button wasn't working and that they need to look into that.
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No, but I worry about it! I am SO claustrophobic! DH's aunt also had a freak elevator accident once. It got stuck for a period of time, and then fell down the shaft and she broke both her legs and her jaw from the impact. I never thought about it until that happened to her. I'm glad you are ok and everything turned out fine!
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@banana: I've asked before
they cannot just fall. He says they are actually the safest place to be. He explained why but it was totally confusing. Something about counterweights maybe? lol. The only reason they say not to use them in fires and stuff is so the fire department can use them to assist handicapped people.
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I would be totally freaked out!!
@MamaJ: Thats so interesting! The reason I'd be scared is because of visions of elevators just falling in my head lol -
@banana: well after seeing @grizz comment maybe it can?? Just super super rare. He has always said it will fall up before it will fall down. Hmm. I'll ask again when he is off work haha.
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@MamaJ: Oh thank goodness! But then I just read what @grizz wrote about her DH's aunt and I'm freaked out again!
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@MamaJ: @banana: I asked him and he said I was wrong - that she wasn't stuck or even inside an elevator, that she just fell down a shaft. I don't even know how in the heck that happens! I mean, do you not see it?
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@grizz: OK that kinda makes me feel a little better (about elevators not falling...not about your DH's aunt getting hurt!). And yeah, how did that happen? Maybe if the doors opened for some reason and the elevator wasn't there? Then I could see how I might accidentally fall down the the shaft?
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@MamaJ: @banana: you also shouldn't use them in fires in case the flire is worse on floor that it stops at...plus it allows the fire to ventilate or something...
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No but I would probably go bat crap nuts if I ever did. I am claustrophobic and I avoid elevators as much as possible.
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No, and I pray it never happens to me!!
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Never. I'm pretty sure I'd cry my eyes out.
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Yes! My last day of college, I was going to take my very last Russian language final. Our class was in this very old building on about the 6th floor. Of course, several of us get stuck in the elevator going up to take this godawful test. The elevator just started working magically after about 15 minutes, so we all went into class. But everyone was quietly taking the test, and no one really knew how to say 'shitty old elevator' in Russian, so we just let our professor assume we were all late. Awesome way to go into a really hard language final, let me tell you.
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No, but my sister got stuck by herself in the elevator of a high rise hotel when she was 4. Then the elevator got called to a different floor and we couldn't find her. She ended up in the lobby about 10 minutes later. She's 22 and still wary of elevators.
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@grizz: yikes. I know the shaft and surrounding parts of elevators are really dangerous. Not sure how she could have fallen either. That's crazy though!
@banana: I asked again and he said no it can't fall.
@wheres_c: that's a good point too. I never thought of that. I wasn't trying to suggest using them during a fire or anything if that's the way it came across
but they are pretty safe if you are stuck inside one (without a fire or something else horrible happening)
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This is the reason I hate elevators!
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@MamaJ: I use to love going on call with my dad!!
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I didn't but most of my coworkers got stuck in our old elevator in our building at one time or another. You didn't step foot in that thing without your phone.
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Many times. The elevator in my apartment on Albania got stuck ALL THE TIME!
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Once. We were stuck in there for maybe ten minutes. But apparently it was enough time for the stench to manifest. The elevator repair dude jumped back to get away from the smell once the doors were opened. Apparently, this is often the case with stuck elevators and the repair guys said that the smell was the worst part of their jobs.
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@fert: Do I dare ask where the stench came from?
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Yes I got stuck once heading out to lunch from my office. I was starving!!! Luckily, we got rescued pretty quickly.
they cannot just fall. He says they are actually the safest place to be. He explained why but it was totally confusing. Something about counterweights maybe? lol. The only reason they say not to use them in fires and stuff is so the fire department can use them to assist handicapped people.
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