On a lighter note...

[silverthorne]

The elevator demons are trying to eat me. I know this for sure.

This morning I got stuck in the elevator again--not even the same one, although it's part of the same cluster.

This one, at least, announced its intent by having the doors, both sets, jam halfway to being closed and then refusing to budge no matter how long I waited, or what button I pushed to try and encourage the doors to either shut completely or re-open. Fortunately, the opening was wide enough for me to squeeze through, although I had to leave the linen cart for Engineering to retrieve later once they got the dumb thing fixed.

This incident has brought me a few realizations:

1) I watch way too many movies where the elevators go crashing down, to the doom of everyone inside.

2) I watch way too many movies where people trying to squeeze through the semi-open crack end up getting squashed, beheaded, delimbed, etc.

3) Both one and two made me too afraid to stay inside with the cart, but also scared of trying to get out (in case the elevator, you know, moved...or decided to snap its doors shut at just that moment).

4) If this keeps happening, I'm going to re-develop claustrophobia, or at least a healthy trepidation of getting onto any elevator. Which would suck majorly.

Still, other than the unwanted adrenalin rush and jolt of fear as I squeezed out of the thing, it was pretty funny to get stuck, again, within a month of the last time it happened. It's like weird karma, or something.

I wonder what causes that kind of karma, anyway?

Comments

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

My nightmares tend to rotate between tornados (and trying to escape them on a shrinking horse that usually ends up being only calf high by the end of it), being hunted and/or anticipating the area I'm in getting attacked by 'something' that I and everyone else in the dream knows is big and bad and nasty but that never actually shows or quite arrives (the teension of waiting is just as bad as actually dealing with an event), and then tsunamis--the kind and size usually reserved for end-of-the-world disaster movies.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Tornado dreams = the worst! I have them when I'm stressed out about something.