The Elevator Incident

This story happened to me a while back. I've blacked out most of the details so I'm probably going to exaggerate the story a bit. I had it planned perfectly. In my head.

So the exaggerated story goes like this. On Nov 27th 2011, my mom suddenly came up with a crazy idea to go camping (well, it is a crazy idea because she wanted to go on the same day). So without a thorough plan, we went to 3 different stores just to find the right stuff to go camping! (we almost canceled it too).

As soon as we arrived on the 2nd store to find the tent, my mum, my eldest brother and I took the elevator. 7 people got in; the 3 of us, 2 women with a lil’ kid (not lesbians!), and a guy. So, just when we thought the day wasn’t going to be any interesting, the elevator froze! It just stopped.

I was keeping it cool...okay, I lied, I did felt like I was going die. But one of the woman was totally freaking out beyond belief! She was shouting and screaming “Please get us out of here!” and she was pressing the emergency button like crazy. We thought our ears were going to explode. I think mine almost did.

When the security got on the line, she was becoming insane. Whole heartedly, I'm ashamed to admit that, I wanted to slap her on the face and shout “Can you please relax! You’re not the only one in here. In case you haven't noticed, we’re stuck in here too. Seriously..” onto her face. Of course, I didn't. Which was a clever thing to do because it would have made her go crazier. We just stayed cool and even make jokes about it. Then the woman started to cool off. We were stuck for almost 10 minutes.

The funny thing was, the security guy kept on saying “Please be patient, we’ll get you guys out any second. Okay, ready. Please keep your distance from the elevator door” over and over again until we got to the 10th minute (I honestly thought that they were going to blow up the elevator door). Seriously, he could've just told us that we were not getting out until 10 minutes later. After we managed to get out, we looked for the exit. Got in the car. Went back home (yes, after all that ruckus, we didn't buy anything). But no, the camping thing were still on. Looking back on the incident, the movie ‘Devil’ by M. Night just popped out of my head.




It was all and all an interesting incident. Though I'm not sure I want to experience this again. Other updates coming!




IA