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Title: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: zombie no.one on October 08, 2011, 10:59:06 AM
edit - lift meaning 'elevator' for you americans  :thumbup:

It's one of those potential 'danger situations' that seems to be ingrained in our collective consciousness, but it's definitely never happened to me or anyone else I know

so basically... have you ever been in a lift that has suddenly stopped between floors? and if so, then what happened.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: Psycho Circus on October 08, 2011, 11:55:34 AM
No


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: LilCerberus on October 08, 2011, 12:21:24 PM
Once.
I preferred the stairs long before that.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: Mr. DS on October 08, 2011, 08:09:43 PM
Once at work during the weekend.  I rang the emergency bell for a good half hour before someone responded.  I was stuck between the 3rd and 2nd floor.  The maintenance guys asked me if I knew where I was.  Kind of hard to tell when the doors won't open.  :lookingup:


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: zombie no.one on October 09, 2011, 01:26:04 AM
Once at work during the weekend.  I rang the emergency bell for a good half hour before someone responded.  I was stuck between the 3rd and 2nd floor.  The maintenance guys asked me if I knew where I was.  Kind of hard to tell when the doors won't open.  :lookingup:
ah so it does happen then

1/2 an hour, I think I probably would've flipped out. I don't think I'm especially claustrophobic but in that situation I might be 


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: claws on October 09, 2011, 01:48:09 AM
Once. Was stuck in an elevator with my sister and her agoraphobic 6 year old daughter for almost an hour. We spend most of the time trying to calm down the kid.
My niece still doesn't use lifts these days.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: zombie no.one on October 09, 2011, 03:59:49 AM
okay. understandable if she doesn't, really

well that's 3 people already - obviously happens more than I thought!


should I have said 'elevators' in the title btw? I have no idea if 'lift' means the same thing in the US


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: Sleepyskull on October 09, 2011, 05:24:57 AM
okay. understandable if she doesn't, really

well that's 3 people already - obviously happens more than I thought!


should I have said 'elevators' in the title btw? I have no idea if 'lift' means the same thing in the US

I live in Maryland,USA and "lift" as a noun I think doesn't really have many meanings here, at least I'm not aware of any. I mean I might say "Please help me lift this heavy box." However I don't think I've heard the word "lift" used as a synonym for "elevator" here, at least not outside of TV, movies and books. It might help to write Lift/Elevator. Either way, no I have not, thank goodness.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: El Misfit on October 09, 2011, 09:44:36 AM
once with my mum for 5 minutes. :lookingup:


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: zombie no.one on October 09, 2011, 11:50:20 AM
thanks sleepyskull.

once with my mum for 5 minutes. :lookingup:
have you recovered yet?  :tongueout:


Title: Lift/elevators
Post by: Trevor on October 09, 2011, 12:48:27 PM
I was stuck in one alone for almost an entire morning when I was a kid. I only use them if I really have to.


Title: Re: Lift/elevators
Post by: zombie no.one on October 09, 2011, 01:53:57 PM
I was stuck in one alone for almost an entire morning when I was a kid.
wow.

okay, except for Circus has anyone else not been trapped in an elevator? I'm almost starting to feel like I'm mising out now  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: FatFreddysCat on October 09, 2011, 03:17:55 PM
I was stuck in an elevator in my dormitory at college. Longest 20 minutes of my life.


Title: Re: Lift/elevators
Post by: Newt on October 09, 2011, 03:53:04 PM
okay, except for Circus has anyone else not been trapped in an elevator? I'm almost starting to feel like I'm mising out now  :bouncegiggle:

I have not.  Happy now?   :teddyr:


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: zombie no.one on October 09, 2011, 05:21:46 PM
happy   :thumbup:

maybe there should be a Badmovie league table for elevator stuck times

as it stands:

Trevor - almost an entire morning
claws - almost an hour
DS - a good half hour
FatFreddysCat - 20 minutes
El toro Loco - 5 minutes

LilCerberus - n/a , not specified


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: LilCerberus on October 09, 2011, 10:45:55 PM
When I was seventeen, I wen't on a class trip to some convention in a fancy hotel.
I was on the second or third floor, so the stairs would've been more convenient, but we couldn't use them.
So many people were using the elevators, the only way to catch one was going up.
But if you did that trying to go down, the elevator would finish with the people going up, then take you all the way up to the eighteenth floor for no reason before returning to the lobby.

I've hated elevators ever since, because their a complete waste of time.
I always demand to know where the stairs are, It gets the kinks out of my back, & I get to my floor faster than everyone else.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: JaseSF on October 10, 2011, 12:00:10 AM
No but I don't like elevators or escalators and generally prefer stairs unless we're talking a ridiculously long climb.


Title: Re: Have you ever got stuck in a lift?
Post by: El Misfit on October 10, 2011, 12:08:19 AM
thanks sleepyskull.

once with my mum for 5 minutes. :lookingup:
have you recovered yet?  :tongueout:
yes, we got doughnuts afterwards.!  :thumbup: Fresh from the fryer as well. So that 5 min. was a good thing. :bouncegiggle: