Stuck in the Lift!
Last week I got stuck in a lift! After my experience I would be interested to know just how many people get stuck in a lift? I think I would be quite surprised.
The most annoying thing was that I knew I was just past the ground floor as I could hear everyone else getting off the other lifts. And when it made a clump noise and jolted down I thought at least I only have one floor to get to the basement. So when I realised after pushing some buttons that I wasn’t going anywhere, I rang the buzzer for help and shortly after I sat myself down and read my book.
Luckily I also had a mobile phone (so I could communicate with the outside world), and the book I had was to help me study for my ‘Life in the UK’ test that I needed to sit in a few days. At first it was quite funny, it was like ‘guess what, I’m stuck in a lift’, but after about 25 mins on a hot day in an enclosed space, and the alarm going off every few minutes, I was over it!
By 40 mins when the engineer finally arrived to pry the doors open (to find me sitting on the floor, book in lap and water bottle in my hand), I was well and truly relieved to be out.
But surely now my chances of getting stuck again are a lot slimmer now (touch wood)!?