Something happened to my housemates and I this morning that I thought only happened in movies! Looking at the title of this post, it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out what it was that happened xD We were stuck in a lift, just the 5 of us, between the 27th and the 28thfloors!!!
We had a 9.30 a.m. Computing Essentials lecture, and we left our condo unit quite early this morning - at 9 a.m.. Usually it’s quite impossible to get a lift that has enough space for the 5 of us, going down, at around that time. So my housemates pressed both the up and the down buttons.
Awesome timing would have it that two lift doors side by side opened at the same time only a few seconds after the buttons were pressed. The left one was going down and the right one was going up. The left one was quite full, so after hesitating for around a second, we went into the lift on the right side, the one going up. We figured we’d go up to go down in the lift xD
We had the whole lift to ourselves, just the 5 of us! I was thinking how unusually cool it is that we could actually enter an empty lift, and go up straight to the highest floor without stopping first at any floors in between, before going down again!
The lift in our condominium here is such that if it’s going up to stop at the 28th floor, the indicator will indicate the 27th floor for quite some time, before indicating the 28th floor when it is really already on the 28th floor. That’s what happened just now in the lift.
The 27th floor was indicated, but we could feel and knew that the lift was going up to the 28th floor (the highest floor). Suddenly there was this “BANGGG!!!”, like something hitting the top/side/wherever of the lift or something. Then the lift stopped, like it was just suspended there.
The 5 of us kind of just stared at each other without saying anything for a moment, then we all just sort of started talking at once. “What happened?”, “Why like that one?”, “Please lah, don’t like that leh!”, “NNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”, “Really stuck ar?!?!?!?”, “AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
The indicator showed 27. Then suddenly…
Out of Service?!?!?!?
THE LIFT WENT OUT OF SERVICE WITH US IN IT!!!
Well, anyway, I now think it was very very wise of me not to say that out loud just now, in the lift! Haha, it wouldn’t have brought any good at all! It would probably have made everyone else even more panicky xD
I was uttering little prayers to God, and I can say that I actually didn’t panic at all! I felt completely calm, certain nothing bad, well, nothing really bad would happen to me! God was with me, and I knew it :) In fact, I actually thought the whole thing was kind of fun! An adventure or a sort, an experience to be remembered, something not everyone can say they have experienced =D
I even took out my camera to take pictures! In ten years time, I’ll look at the pictures and smile to myself, while everyone around me think I’ve gone crazy, smiling at myself xD That may just be the point I get sent into a mental hospital! Hahahaha!!!
Oops, ter-cut Felicia out :S Sorry Felicia!
Perhaps it was laughing the panic away, or perhaps everyone rationalised that laughing is better than crying, but the 5 of us were laughing! Look at us in the picture! Yes, we look like we had just woken up (which is true), but we don’t exactly look sad, do we? Come to think of it, it was a good way to kick-start our day! I sure did feel a lot more awake after being stuck in the lift! xD
Thank God Hong Ling’s phone had signal (Woots! Maxis!!! =D), and she called the number pasted in the lift, for use of emergencies. We also called another friend who we knew didn’t have any lectures on this morning, to ask her to look for help for us xD THANK YOU XUE NI!!!!! You’re awesome!!! :)
Talking to Xue Ni on the phone was kind of funny! Imagine being called early in the morning, being told that some of your friends are stuck in a lift, asking you to go look for help for them! Wouldn’t you think that you’re being tricked or something? Haha, anyway, Xue Ni believed we really were stuck in the lift, and she sounded very “cemas” for us! Awwww, thanks again, Xue Ni!!!!! =)
Trying to explain our situation to Xue Ni x)
By that time, we had already been stuck in the lift for some time, and Niki was already sitting on the floor xD
Her facial expression so cute xD
After being stuck in the lift for nearly half an hour (seriously, it was that long! But it didn’t really feel that long :D), Spiderman, Superman, Batman and Cicakman came to save us! =D
Spiderman, with his webs helped to make sure the lift wouldn’t drop 27½ floors down by spider-webbing the bottom of the lift to the side of the lift-space-wall (lift-space-wall?!?!?!? =.=).
Superman, with his super-strength pushed the lift doors apart so that we could get out of the lift.
Batman held the lift up from the top, helping Spiderman make sure the lift wouldn’t drop all the way down.
And as for Cicakman, he was just there to entertain us, and remind us that we have a local superhero xD
Okay, okay, maybe all these superheroes weren’t REALLY there to help us out, but a girl can make her being rescued from a lift sound a little more dramatic, can’t she? Wait, she can’t? Cheh, no fun lah :P
What really happened was that someone (a representative of Superman, perhaps xD) did come and push the lift doors apart. We then climbed out of the lift, one by one, up to the 28th floor. Yes, we had to climb up, since the 28th floor was around our waist level xD
When all 5 of us were out, we were then treated like VIPs, being ushered into another lift that was held purposely for us! The lift was just there, waiting for us! The 5 of us were ushered into the lift, a guy, and another guy came with us (maybe the representative of Cicakman? There to make sure everything goes on okay and to make us feel more at ease? xD). The lift went straight down to P5 (the floor we were headed to, sort of like the Ground floor).
The lift door opened and we saw yet another guy there to usher us out, like a welcoming committee!!! :D We felt like VIPs, oh-so-important! =D
The anti-climactic end to the story is that the 5 of us said our thanks, and rushed off for our Computing Essentials lecture, already late for the lecture! xD
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Buh-bye, people!!!
P/S: Thank You, Lord, for getting us out of there safely :)
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