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I met a whole bunch of people in my building today
while I was stuck on the elevator for a half hour.
The only buttons on the inside of our lifts are those for the Ground floor and parking garage levels. If you want to get up to our floor you have to put a special card up to a reader and it takes you to your floor. There are only two condos per floor, one on the front side of the elevator doors and one on the back. When you scan your card in the lift, it takes you directly to your condo and no one else can access it, not even management. Because no one else can get to our lift lobby, we sometimes don't lock our front door.
For some reason they have a giant piece of thick plastic covering each of the walls of the lift. It's sealed to the wall around the edges and has little circles cut out so you can touch the buttons and a square cut out so that you can put your card up to the reader.
This morning I accidentally dropped my card after scanning it and it fell through the centimeter of space between the plastic and the wall through the open square. I was trying to get it out when the lift reached my floor, so I just stayed on. I have no cell reception in the lift so I couldn't call management to come get it out. So I rode up and down in the lift for about 15 minutes, meeting a variety of sympathetic people as they came and went. Finally, a South African woman about my age offered to call the management office for me once she got off the lift. Management came a couple minutes later and it took them another 15 minutes to free my card.
So today I wasted a half hour of my life, but at least I got a PFT out of it. We're going for coffee tomorrow.
Re: I met a whole bunch of people in my building today
What an amusing way to meet a new PFT! I am so glad someone finally helped you. And this sounds exactly like something I would do in this situation, if there's a centimeter of space that I can find to mess something up, I'm all over it.
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
I've almost been expecting this to happen since we moved in. Only I was assuming it would happen at 1:30 on a Saturday morning returning from a bar and not stone cold sober at 10:30 am coming home from the grocery.
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012