Today, I sat on an elevator for 10 minutes thinking I was stuck. After waiting awhile I looked at the screen to see what floor I was stuck on, only to realize I hadn't pressed a button so I had just stayed on the ground floor. 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, 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, 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, at work, my boss and I went upstairs to storage. We got in the elevator, I pressed the second floor button, and it didn't move so I repeatedly pressed the button. It wasn't until the fifth press that I realized we were already on the second floor. She thought I was an idiot. FML
Today, I got stuck in an elevator for 45 minutes. I am an elevator mechanic. FML
Today, I worked up my courage and took an elevator for the first time in my life. Unfortunately, it was also my first time getting trapped for several hours in an elevator. FML
Today, I was stuck in the elevator for almost two hours. Where was the elevator mechanic? Next to me in the elevator. FML
Today, my building's elevators were temporarily out of service. I climbed up 17 flights of stairs only to realize I left my keys downstairs. After the painful climb back up, the elevator lights came on. FML
Today, I got in the elevator with my dog and pressed the button for my floor. Instead of going up, it dropped two floors and opened up to a random basement room filled with nothing but mannequins, and wouldn't go back up. I had to fumble our way to the stairs. FML
Today, I got stuck in an elevator. The help-line told me, "Don't touch the door. We'll be there soon". Two hours later, I had a headache, my legs were stiff, and my date must've thought I stood her up. The tech finally arrived, pries the door open, then rudely asked, "Why didn't you do that yourself?" 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
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borhos222 0
Oh, that sucks :/ I did that in a hotel once. haha there were two sets of elevators (1 from 1 - 13 and the other from 13 - 26) and I kept asking people "how do you get to level so and so" hahah it was embarrassing
kxlovesyou 0
thats not too bad... at least no one saw you
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philosopher 0
I'm actually more in disbelief that so many people admit to doing it too... Why wouldn't you just try pressing (other) buttons? Or see if the emergency button was on? Or use the call box / button? Yeah... just wow...
LadyinPurple 0
aha. tthats funny. 10 min though? thts a long time to just stay there clueless not doing anything.
Reena03 0
LOL, this is jokes, your pretty stupid to just sit in a none moving elevator, look before sitting in an elevator, next time.
adelaide_evening 0
This happened to me once. I thought I was stuck in there and couldn't get out, so I started screaming and banging on the doors as I cried hysterically. Of course, I was about six or seven when it happened. What's your excuse?
lilsurfergrlsp 3
haha this has actually happened to me too. Except I was in the elevator with my grandma and we were too busy talking to realize neither of us had pushed a button.
Kondustra 8
anybody who has been stuck in an elevator without realizing they nnever pressed the button right is ******* stupid
brrrx 0
Someone else would have called the elevator if it had actually been 10 minutes.
fretforyerlatte 0
i've done that...but um it only took me a few seconds of standing there to realize what happened. "oh damn, didn't push the button yet, derrrr."
zach5 0
Fake. First of all if you were stuck, you wouldve moved then stopped. Second of all if you didn't move at all, you press the button that opens the door to get out.
FMLisright 0
this is more like a "my life is average," to be honest.