I got stuck in an elevator today. The first time in my 55 years on this earth.
Tom and I went to the new Route 66 park, by Lake Overholser, in Oklahoma City. It's new, so of course the restrooms are out of order and the elevator doesn't work. But at least the restrooms had an "out of order" sign on them, unlike the elevator. And there was a huge dog turd in front of one elevator door.
Anyway, to get back to my "trapped in an elevator" story, we walked up the stairs, but we didn't take our asthma inhaler with us. So we decided to take the elevator back down.
Big mistake.
We hopped onto the elevator, and this little 5 year old kid hopped on with us. As the doors closed we realized it was completely dark in there.. I started pushing buttons, but all I managed to do was make an alarm buzz. The elevator wasn't moving, even though we pushed the first floor button. Tom finally saved the day by pushing the right button. (sigh- My hero!)
The little boy went running off the elevator, telling everyone about how scary it was. We walked down the stairs, and as we reached the bottom floor there was a lady standing by the big dog turd in front of the elevator doors.
"You don't want to get on that elevator, Lady," I said to her. "We got stuck on there already."
As we were leaving the area, we could hear her on her cell phone saying, "the elevator isn't working. These people were already stuck on it."
Not much of an adventure, I guess, but we were beginning to get a little claustrophobic. The little boy had tried to comfort us by telling us he had kinfolk there at the park, and they would find us.
By the way, make sure your little ones know not to get on an elevator with strangers.
So, if you want to go to the Route 66 park, it's really nice. Just make a point to stay away from the elevator.
PS - Tom and I discussed the dog turd, and now that we think about it, the restrooms were not working. Hmmmm...
posted by Trekkietech @ 10:55 PM
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