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...been trapped in an elevator with a steel I-beam coming through the wall?
As of today, I have.
Some backstory: I took a summer job helping to install mirrors, shower doors, and wire shelves. Today we were at a new apartment building, taking the mirrors that fit in the elevator (all twenty-one of them) up to the second floor so we could put them in. Suddenly we hear a clattering noise coming from the elevator shaft...we all jump and ask the operator if he knows what that was and he had no clue. So we kept going up but then it comes again and suddenly we saw a bulge forming by the controls, also the wall where all the mirrors were stacked. The operator quickly turned the key to stop the elevator from going up and called for help on his phone. After being stuck in there for a half-hour or more, they finally got us out (we were about a foot higher than the floor on the second floor...how, we don't know). Later we found out that apparently, somehow the cable had got caught on a stabliser and we think that the stabliser was then wedged between the shaft and into the wall of the elevator. Needless to say, that freak accident and the speculation of what if the elevator fell with all those mirrors in it left us mildly shaken. *chalks up yet another probably near-death*
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Getting trapped in an elevator used to be one of my biggest fears. I still don't feel comfortable riding in one. Getting locked in a library wouldn't be THAT bad (depends for how long)
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yeah...I've got this huge paranoia of falling...but apparently I was the only person in the elevator (including the operator who had his ticket) who was fairly sure that elevators had brakes to prevent free fall...my only huge concern, aside from possibly throwing up due to any drop, was what would happen with the mirrors and if I should be as close to them as I could be, or as far
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wow makes you kinda nervous. Reminds me of this elevator that leads up to a lawfirm I pick up and make deliveries at. The elevator is constantly being repaired and makes loud thumping and clanking noises the whole way up and down. Not to mention that it shakes like its about to tear loose.
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