Back in the 90’s we had an employee at our plant whose wife was in a local hospital. While transferring her to another floor, her gurney was half way into the elevator when the brake gave out and the elevator floor plunged down and she was crushed. Horrible accident, don’t know how the settlement turned out.
How horrible! On our honeymoon many years ago, my wife and I got stuck in an elevator for over an hour in a Honolulu parking garage. Nobody came. I pried the doors open and we were stuck between floors. We could crawl up to the floor and get out, but I was scared to death something like that would happen. We eventually did escape that way unscathed.
I’ve always hated the possibility of being cut in two at the midriff. I don’t like going from Jetways onto airplanes because of the possibility the Jetway could suddenly lurch away from the plane dropping me 20 feet to the tarmac. I’ve never heard of that happening, but you know it COULD happen. So I stand back and then quickly dash into the plane.
The reaction of the attendant to our plight when we left the garage? Just what you think a Native Hawaiian reaction would be.