Billie Trimble (obtineo) wrote,
@ 2011-07-19 22:05:00

I got stuck on a crowded elevator today in London.

I nearly started climbing the bloody walls. I didn't even mean to get on the damn thing, but I got caught in the middle of a fast moving herd, and got crammed into the back. The doors shut, and there were too many people to push through, and before we even got to the first floor below us, the thing stalled for about 3 minutes.

I'm pretty sure I knocked over an elderly woman and a little boy on my way out of there. I feel bad about it in retrospect, but...Christ.

This is why I prefer the Quidditch Pitch - wide, open spaces with no walls that feel like they're closing in on you.

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	sebclicks 2011-07-19 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	I bloody hate lifts! Even though the ones in the Ministry are not much better, but at least they've got magic to make them seem bigger.. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	obtineo 2011-07-19 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	Are there alternate modes of getting from one place to the other at the Ministry? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sebclicks 2011-07-19 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	I...would hope so, but now I'm afraid of the fact that I don't know of any. Stairs perhaps? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

obtineo
2011-07-19 11:52 pm UTC (link)

I've always been rather fond of stairs. Small, confined spaces are things I do not handle very well.

I went to New York once, with a friend of mine, and tried climbing to the top of the Statue of Liberty, and nearly passed out. There's this spiral staircase you need to climb up once you get to the head, to get to the crown, and you can barely move because people are practically right on top of you as you try to climb.

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	cockaigne 2011-07-19 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	That is an unfortunate experience! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	obtineo 2011-07-19 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't been on an elevator by choice since I was 6, and I was stuck in one for a good hour and a half during a brown out in the middle of summer. Did I mention there was an intense heat wave that day? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cockaigne 2011-07-20 02:34 am UTC (link)
	I do not envy you right now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	obtineo 2011-07-20 02:37 am UTC (link)
	Well, at 23, I'm part of the team that's going to win the world cup this yea. So I'm thinking I caught a pretty good break, in the grand scheme of things. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	thomases 2011-07-20 12:19 am UTC (link)
	I prefer quidditch because it makes everything else feel like it's moving in slow motion. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	obtineo 2011-07-20 12:23 am UTC (link)
	That too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thomases 2011-07-20 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Yep. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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