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Saturday, March 05, 2005

A first for everything

A few months ago, I had my first experience with lost luggage. Not particularly pleasant, but I think it's only fair that it happens to everyone once in their life.

Yesterday, I had my first "trapped in an elevator" experience, and, even better, it was very "action movie"-esque. I was at work, and going to grab some lunch. The stairs are not easily accessible in our new office building (unless there's a fire alarm), so we are just about forced to take the elevator. There are three elevators, and they all seem to take forever to come. When one finally did arrive on my floor, a guy was already in it. I stepped on and pressed my desired floor (lobby). He had already hit his floor (3). The doors closed. The elevator started to descend but at a much more rapid pace than usual. Generally, there's a good three or four seconds between the bells the indicate each floor. Instead, it was going "ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding", going through floors every second or two. The guy and I looked at each other in alarm. The elevator came to a jolting stop, even though the down arrows were still lit up and our buttons were also still illuminated. Then nothing happened. "Okay..." I said to the guy, and pressed the door open button. No result. He swiped his ID, which usually overrides all other commands. Again, nothing. "I guess we have to call them," he said, and pressed the emergency call button. Instantly security answered. The guy explained our situation. The security guard asked what floor we were on. The guy looked at me; I shrugged. The display which usually says that stuff was blank. "Ground level?" the guy guessed. Security assured us they'd send someone right over. The guy and I both pulled out our cell phones. No reception. Nothing to do but wait. (No, Jeremy, we didn't make out.) Thankfully, security managed to get the doors open (we were indeed at the ground floor) less than ten minutes later. But it was exciting nonetheless!

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