The Elevator Story

The new apartment that we lived in was on the 20th floor. One day I got home from school and got on the elevator to go to the apartment. This elevator does not service the 2nd-7th floors of the building, only 1 and 8-25. There were 7 people and a bike in the elevator, including me. I think the capacity is 13. We are going up just fine until on the 6th floor the elevator starts falling! Luckily it corrected itself and just dropped to the 5th floor. All the buttons stopped working and the door opened. The door opened to a floor that is not serviced by this elevator... Luckily people had cell phones and started calling the service numbers. And all though the elevator doesn't go to the 5th floor there was a door there. After about 15 minutes of pounding on this door that was nailed shut, calling service numbers, holding the elevator door open (so it wouldn't close and potentially fall the rest of the way down), and pushing the call button someone pries the nailed door open and we exit into some sort of storage room. The elevator on the other side of the building was packed and I assumed it only went to floor 8. So I found a flight of stairs and went down them to the first floor (this flight was not a flight that would go to my hallway). I end up in some sort of wierd parking garage. There were cars on lifts over cars on lifts over parked cars. It was just strange. Anyway, I walk around the building to get to where my stairs are and walk up 20 freaking flights of stairs! I was almost to the point of trembling when I got up to the 20th floor. About 2 minutes after I got home my roommate, Elizabeth, walks in cool as could be. I asked if the elevator was still broken. She said yes but she used the one on the other side of the building. Apparently the other elevator goes to the 20th floor. I never thought it did since in our hallway there is only one elevator. Apparently you can walk down half a flight of stairs through a breeze way then up another half flight of stairs to get to the other elevator. I had McDonalds to make up for all the calories I burned by walking up and down so many flights of stairs...



After the elevator was eventually fixed, it was a good 2 inch gap between the floor and the elevator. Here is a picture I took from the 20th floor between the floor and elevator looking down.