Have you ever been stuck in an elevator?

[WDWJDS]

Severely claustrophobic here . Got stuck once in a packed elevator in Canada full of drag queens (started to hyperventilate and DH calmed me down). It was a convention and everybody else seemed to be enjoying themselves

Another time at work. Transporting a newborn between floors - just me and the baby in a crib. Still claustrophobic but less anxiety. Not sure why Got out in less than five minutes.

I hate elevators, but I also hate staying on low floors in hotels

 

[lisaviolet]

Yes a couple of times.

Once in a packed elevator, no wiggle room at all and with my father's cremated remains in my arms.

The elevator was doing ridiculous falls and jumps. I was fine but mighty pissed at everyone telling the dispatch that we are all just F.I.N.E fine. We were, but I thought they were being way too casual. It is one thing for an elevator to just stop. It is quite another for it to jump. And I piped up and squashed all the polite "no rush, no big deal" vibe.

It was an hour. We ended up between floors but with enough room to step up? down? (guess I have blocked it out ) and out

 

[SC Minnie]

A couple of months before the pandemic I had taken the elevator to our 4th floor at work for a meeting. When I got out of the meeting an hour later there were people working on the same elevator. A coworker who has been with the company for about 2 weeks had been stuck in the elevator for 45 minutes at that time. Took another 30 minutes for them to get the doors open so she could climb out- it was stuck between floors.

 

[mrodgers]

Not stuck. Last night on vacation staying on the 14th floor, we came home in the evening after dinner and evening activities and figured we'd carry some stuff and load up the car. We got back to the hotel to find it surrounded by firetrucks. It was panic for a moment until we learned the elevator broke down and set off alarms.

So we carried some stuff down 14 flights of stairs as we were heading out to walk the beach one last night anyway. Next morning woke up and they were still broken so had to carry everything else down 14 flights of stairs as well to leave.

 

[design_mom]

Yes. In Russia. (We were there adopting our son and it was in our hotel. My family -- my mom, my husband, our new son, and me -- were the only ones in the elevator. Of us, I was the only one who'd learned any Russian. I certainly wasn't fluent, and "Hey, we're stuck in the elevator" wasn't one of the phrases I'd memorized!)

We kind of sat there for a while hoping they would fix it... but they did not... and then the baby started to fuss. There was an emergency phone, so I picked it up and said the two Russian words I could come up with that seemed suitable: the equivalent of "Elevator. Stop." I'm sure they could hear the baby crying too. The person on the other end said a LOT of words in response, but I didn't understand any of them. Then she disconnected -- and if I tried the emergency phone after that, it just made a "busy signal" tone. So we were back to waiting and didn't really know if anyone was coming to fix it or not. And it was getting HOT in the elevator.

But eventually some guys in uniforms (with guns -- police? military? I'm not really sure) pried to doors open. We were between floors so they had to lift us out. Then I got to use a few more of the Russian words I knew how to say "Thank you! Thank you so much!!!" We took the stairs from then on!

 

[PrinceRaki]

I was 5 and lived in the 4th floor, my parents used to work in the 1st floor. When I woke up from my nap I wanted to give them a "surprise", so hid from the nanny and went down there. When I was in the first floor the doors didn't open and the emergency button was too high for me to reach. I started crying and hitting the walls, after like 5 min (I thought it was past an hour) someone heard the noises and came to talk to me. I told her where my mom works and she called her. My mom forced the door and opened it a little bit, the elevator wasn't completely on the floor, then she jumped inside with me while the tech came and fixed it.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Yes. At work a long time ago but only for about thirty minutes. We were stuck between floors....crawled out once they opened the doors.