I have a confession to make. I am wary of elevators.
He has more reason to be wary though |
Whenever I step into an elevator, my heart always constricts a bit because one of these things could happen:
(1) My cellphone or my foot could fall into the gap between the floor and the elevator.
(2) The doors could squish me between them which would probably hurt. A lot.
(3) It would suddenly stop working and I would be trapped in there and worst case scenario, I could run out of air and die.
(4) Its cables would snap and it would go hurtling to the ground, killing me.
I know, I watch too much TV. I blame the last one in particular to an episode in Alias where someone dies when the cables on his elevator are cut.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend Mildred when we had an elevator incident. We had gotten inside our office elevator when it suddenly stopped working, stopped making sounds, nothing. So naturally, we panicked and started thinking about how to survive.
Me: What if this elevator plunges to the ground, what do we do?
Mildred: I know, we should lie flat on the floor to lessen the impact!
Me: No, I think we should jump up right before the elevator touches the ground!
Castle gets stuck in an elevator and has the same dilemma that we had. See what I mean about too much television? |
Turns out we had just forgotten to press the button for the ground floor. Yeesh.
P.S. You know what’s another E word? Eight! My blog passed the eight year mark last March 29 and it didn’t even occur to me until now! I almost always never forget that. OMG I am getting so old. Last year I even made a 7th anniversary blog and listed my seven most memorable blogs. Please check it out on this link.
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This post is part of the A to Z Challenge, a blog hop that goes through the alphabet for all the days of April except Sundays. I have decided to go with the theme of Alliterations.