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NMM: I got trapped today for 30 minutes...
...inside a carwash. I kid you not. Couldn't go forward or backward and the garage doors were both down. And it was one of those unmanned service places not affiliated with a gas station. I called the gas station next door and they informed me they didn't own it and didn't have the company's number either. My last resort, because I also could not get the company name on my iPhone, was to call the police.
Yes, a local police officer and a man from the gas station rescued me and my 3-year-old son! LOL.
But have any of you ever been trapped for a long time and literally wonder how it will all pan out? I had visions of the fire department having to cut the door down or something...
It is ironic because every time I drive into one of those I have this exact thought, "What if the doors don't open?!?"
Yes, a local police officer and a man from the gas station rescued me and my 3-year-old son! LOL.
But have any of you ever been trapped for a long time and literally wonder how it will all pan out? I had visions of the fire department having to cut the door down or something...
It is ironic because every time I drive into one of those I have this exact thought, "What if the doors don't open?!?"
Re: NMM: I got trapped today for 30 minutes...
One time I got locked in a park bathroom, one of the single bathrooms with the big dead bolt and no gap under the door to crawl under. I was in there a good 5 minutes with the lock stuck, naturally I was panicking and so embarrassed of the thought of having to call someone to rescue me from a bathroom LOL. To make matters worse H was talking to Department of Natural Resources police (AKA being stopped for a safety inspection on our boat, normal practice in MD) right outside in the parking lot so I couldn't pound on the door and make a scene.
Edited because spelling is hard.
At least you can laugh about it now, I would be in full panic mode at the time though! How did the police help? Did you get a free car wash out of it? LOL.
I have a fear of going through car washes so I always make H drive lol. If we take separate cars, I have to wait until he's done with his and then he will drive mine through.
I also have a fear of getting stuck in an elevator. When I used to visit my grandma in the nursing home I panicked every time I stepped on that elevator because those elevators were always too hot and smelly. Thus the reason I carry Xanax on me at all times...In my college dorms, the footballs guys used to get in the elevator and jump in it...I took the stairs up 3 flights if they were around
This is my fear!
One time I got stuck in an elevator for half an hour. It was during an office fire drill. The drill had ended and everyone went back inside. The building had a ridiculous policy of not allowing people to use the stairs to return to their office floor so everyone crowds the elevators.
Well anyway, a bunch of people crowded onto the elevator with me and a few other people and the elevator got stuck halfway between the third and fourth floor because it had too much weight (but apparently NOT too much for the elevator to decide to close the doors and start moving). The building eventually got the elevator functioning again but we were stuck for awhile...there was one woman who had space issues and was having a mild panic attack and it got ridiculously hot in there. The only thing helping was it was one of those glass elevators so it didn't feel as though you were stuck in a sealed box at least. Ever since then I've always avoided getting on elevators with a bunch of people already on...and if a ton of people get on after me I just walk right out again and wait for another elevator. I refuse to let it happen again!
I got stuck in a pretty nice bathroom stall on a rest stop in Morocco. I knew I would be freed eventually especially since my DH knew where I was but it was boring waiting. Someone had to come with tools to get the lock to open.
That's interesting the doors of the car wash closed. I've only ever seen ones where the ends are open.
My current car is a convertible, so I no longer have the lower cost or convenience of an automated car wash. It's the one thing I miss.
Though not so convenient for you, @MommyLiberty5013. Yikes! Thank goodness for cell phones.
@labro, I also won't get on a really full elevator for exactly those reasons. Though I've never been stuck in one. An office building I used to work at was next to the levee of a lake. There were three occasions where a water moccasin (aka cotton mouth, poisonous snake) had gotten into one of the elevator cars, though I think they were always discovered before someone accidentally took a ride with it. But I ALWAYS double checked those elevator cars for snakes before I got in one (shudder).
Remind me to never ever work in a building on a lake...we've got those water moccasins here too.
It really is! I almost wished our office manager would stop telling us when it happened. I'd be catatonic in an elevator with even a "nice" snake. Much less a deadly one.
My ex-b/f, before I met him, got bit on the finger by one. One bite. On his finger. And he was in the ICU for 3 days. They came close to having to amputate his finger, but were able to save it with a skin graft. Even years later, he had very little feeling in that finger. Scary stuff.
My high school friend's brother was bit by a venomous snake somewhere in the southern U.S.. On the arm, while in his own driveway and he had to have skin grafts too. We travel to AZ every January/February and have done so for the past decade, but I have never seen a rattlesnake. Although, I have read up on them and snake bite first aid...just in case...