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Where's Keanu when you need him?

William Sack

12:03 / 19.01.05

I got trapped in a lift yesterday. I rarely use the thing but I needed to go down 5 floors and someone was just coming out of it as I was about to use the stairs, so I just jumped in it. There was no crazed Dennis Hopper threatening to blow up the building, I didn't have to drink my own piss or eat my foot, in fact no real drama at all. Just 40 minutes of boredom waiting on my own for the engineer to turn up. In fact the worst part was getting out of the lift when he cranked open the doors. It was stuck between floors and I remembered that episode of 6 Feet Under where that chap was sliced in half getting out of a lift in similar circumstances.

Anyone else been trapped in a lift?

Mazarine

12:31 / 19.01.05

In spite of my best efforts to do so, no. There was a two floor elevator that was rickety as hell in the place I used to work, a state agency in an old bank building. I'd prepare! I'd have a book in my back pocket, I'd've gone to the ladies room beforehand, just hoping to get stuck so I could have some peace and maybe a nap, but no dice. I worked there for a year and I could never get stuck in the fucking thing.

Grey Area

12:47 / 19.01.05

I didn't so much get stuck in a lift as have one try to kill me. In the summer before I started uni I worked for a relocation company. Got sent to do the inventory of a client's basement, and took the elevator down. As I stood in the open door of the elevator looking for the light switches, the doors started to close. You know that safety mechanism that stops lift doors closing on you? Well this elevator predated it. The doors claimed my jacket, gave me interesting bruises all the way down my left arm and crushed the sunglasses and data collection device I had in the inside pocket of the jacket as they ground shut, leaving me in the dark. T'was a most harrowing experience.

Triplets

13:35 / 19.01.05

Area, I believe you actually encountered the legendary Great White Lift. I hope your ordeal ended with a gas cannister and much righteous harpooning.

I've not gotten stuck in a lift. I have however broken one.

Grey Area

13:51 / 19.01.05

Unfortunately, it didn't end that way. It ended up with me blundering around the entry area of the basement in the dark, cursing loudly in German and picking up every last cobweb that hung down there, finally finding the stairs and appearing in the building lobby looking like death warmed over. No gas cannister, no harpoon. Not even a day off.

Mourne Kransky

20:46 / 19.01.05

Never trapped, thank f.

Used to walk up eleven floors at University to avoid the lifts and then, finally, succumbed. Haven't had a problem since, until you raised the ugly spectre again.

I too remember the 6 Feet Under Episode and I'm glad you survived intact, Cash. Never do any act of kindness for anyone if you want to avoid being sliced in two.

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