Today, I was on the elevator at work. As it descended, a roach started scurrying about around my feet. I freaked out and started screaming, hitting the panic button without thinking. Now I'm facing a hefty fine for using the panic button when there wasn't a "real" emergency. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I accidentally pressed the panic button under the register at work. I didn't even know we had a panic button until the cops showed up. FML
Today, I was fined because my son pushed the alarm button in the elevator. Why? There was a spider in there. FML
Today, I was in a big crowded elevator and had to struggle tried to press the button for my floor because no one close to the buttons bothered to ask me which floor I was going to. Instead, I hit the emergency stop button. The elevator stopped between floors for 20 minutes. Everyone stared at me like I was a movie villain. FML
Today, I found a mysterious button under my desk at work and pressed it out of curiosity. It was the emergency panic alarm. Within five minutes, security, my manager, and then two confused police officers were asking if I was OK. I just wanted to know what the button did. FML
Today, I got stuck in my building's elevator. I pushed the emergency button, which made a ringing noise. After about half an hour, I heard someone yell, "Stop pushing that button, my kids are sleeping." FML
Today, at work I got in an elevator to go upstairs. It wasn't until the doors opened minutes later and people stepped in that I realized I had zoned out and forgot to press the button for the floor I needed. I then promptly exited the elevator and waited for the next elevator to go up in. FML
Today, the workplace evacuation bell sounded. Out of panic after the recent earthquake, I ran down 21 flights of stairs, only to find out it was a false alarm. My legs are on fire, and I can barely walk. FML
Today, I sneaked out of work early. I tripped over my own feet while walking up to my car. As I fell, I managed to hit the panic button on my car keys, setting off my car alarm while I lay flat on the ground in the parking lot. FML
Today, I was late for work and sprinted to catch the elevator. I made it just in time, only to realize I was in the elevator alone and had just dramatically dived into it for no reason. FML
Today, as I got into an elevator, I spotted a little old lady hobbling desperately to get on. I frantically tapped on the 'door open' button but the doors closed. I got dirty looks from the people in the lift, only then did I realise I had frantically tapped the 'door close' button instead. FML
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Iamnotmyself 17
A roach! OMG. ok I got this, I'll press the panic button instead of stepping on it!
Iamnotmyself 17
You owned yourself bro!
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Comments (174)
rocker135 0
shouldve called 911 instead
redbluegreen 41
While everyone else is laughing, just realise you did the right thing, OP. Cockroaches are no laughing matter. Those sturdy bastards will be around; devouring stale sweets and power cables long after the rest of humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war.
racheljessie 17
Hey, it was just a knee-jerk reaction. I might have done the same thing (if I did't step on and kill it). I HATE BUGS!
ariannaimelda 7
I would understand why you'd panic like that. Roaches can smell fear.
organicmtdew 0
man, I would HATE to work or live somewhere that a building owner can fine his tenants based upon subjective interpretation of what constitutes an emergency worthy of disturbing the Police Academy drop-out in the security office!
Ranimal 12
Well considering that most panic/alarm buttons in elevators are routed through to the police/fire department, that would be their call, not the employers.
ADub55 0
I like how OP puts real in quotes, as if to mock the person who told her that a roach in an elevator isnt an emergency. Well its not an emergency. Get over it and kill that damn thing.
FMl33557799 2
you are really dumb, for real
heyysunshine 5
How is your first impulse to press the panic button instead of squishing it...?
DrewsFML 8
YDI for not shimmying through the ceiling panel and scaling the elevator shaft to safety.
letmeloveyou 0
but that's where all the rats are
HU4L188 0
i went to a hotel and the panic button didnt do anything except ring a bell... it wasnt ghetto either it was a hilton. but then employees starting patroling the elevators because we wouldnt stop pressing it xD