Hopefully in five-gallon plastic buckets and extra napkins, please.
And here is a fun(?) article about a guy majorly stuck!
Up And Then Down
The lives of elevators.
...He also began hearing unlikely oscillations in the ringing: aural hallucinations. Before long, he began to contemplate death...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down
I hope self driving cars aren’t designed by the people who designed elevators.
Death traps. No fail safe provisions. No redundancy. Difficult rescue.
The 2010 movie ‘Devil’ about a stuck elevator is a fantastic thriller if you haven’t seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7l3nzjHYTg
Good job. I can never remember where I parked my elevator cab in the parking garage.
Glad it didn't start dropping from the eighth floor.
Didn’t the movie Speed start like this?
Otis did not invent the elevator.
He invented a braking system which made it
not suicidal for human beings to ride in them.
Four feet is almost the normal elevator opening size. Now, if Michael Moore or Jerry Nadler was on board, it might be considered a gap.
Why did this take several calls? I was once stuck in a Russian elevator and was immediately gotten out.
I worked in a coal-fired power plant that had about a 190 foot elevator shaft that went to the top of our boiler. One day, fourteen contractors squeezed into the car, and it went into free-fall for about 160 feet, by my estimation. Fortunately, you know how elevators downshift as they’re approaching a stop? Well, the elevator downshifted and gave them a soft landing.
One of the contractors told me later, “You should have heard the screaming in there”!
I told him I would have been more concerned about the smell...