I hate this city and I hate elevators too
#1
Posted 19 May 2008 - 01:33 PM
So I had to drive 500km to another city to meet with some clients. It is a 3 days trip, so I arranged to sleep over at a friend. The day before I left I got a phone call from her(my friend) that her grandmother has died, and that, unfortunatelly, she has to leave town to go to the funeral, but that I am still welcome to stay at her place, and that she will arrange for me to get the keys. So I drive there (8 hours drive because of traffic), and I have the keys and the indications on how to find the appartment.
The story
So I find the building and I get into the elevator, I press the number 4 button and I wait for the elevator to do it's job. And the next thing I see are the keys to the appartment dropping from my hand, onto the floor, inbetween the elevator doors, and down into the floor gap.
Attempting not to panic, and still not believing what just happened, I ring at a random door to ask for the administrator's appartment number. Some lady yells at me behind the door "What do you want?" ,"Excuse me, I seem to have lost my keys in the elevator, I say, I am looking for the administrator's appartment" . "Appartment 65, floor 6". Still ,she's not opening the door, she is still yelling from behind the closed door.
Ok, so I climb to floor nr. 6 (being too affraid to take the elevator again). This time, the administrator does open the door when I ring. I present the situation to her and ask her for help in retrieving my keys. "Well..." she says " it's too late in the evening to call the elevator company, you'll have to wait until tomorrow morning". I procedded to explain to her (again) that the keys that I dropped where to the appartment where I was supposed to stay for the night. I cannot come back tommorrow morning.
"What if I got stuck in the elevator", I ask, "would you have me waiting in the elevator until tommorrow"?
"Oh no, she answers, If you got stuck in the elevator, that would have been an emergency, I would call the elevator company".
"Still, you cannot expect me to sleep on the street, it's still some sort of an emergency for me you know"
"I'm sorry, she says, I wish there was something I could do. Good night !" and then she closes the door.
Gosh I hate this city, people here suck. And elevators too.
#3
Posted 19 May 2008 - 11:02 PM
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#4
Posted 20 May 2008 - 04:20 AM
That could have backfired horribly.
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
#6
Posted 20 May 2008 - 05:12 PM
i need to know
This post has been edited by TruJade: 20 May 2008 - 05:20 PM
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#7
Posted 21 May 2008 - 04:31 AM
I pleaded and begged (but didn't cry) to the operator to send anyone to help me with the keys. In the end she agreed to call and see if a technician was willing to come in his free time to help me, if I would pay him for the trouble. Some guy showed up 40 minutes later and retrieved my keys, but then I discovered all the cash I had in my wallet amounted to about 15$ .. not even enough to pay for his cab fare.
#8
Posted 21 May 2008 - 04:18 PM
get annoyed when you didn't have enough
or did you try and find the closest ATM?? ???
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#9
Posted 22 May 2008 - 12:17 AM
Nothing $15 worth of alcohol counldn't have fixed.
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#10
Posted 22 May 2008 - 03:10 AM
get annoyed when you didn't have enough
or did you try and find the closest ATM?? ???
I gave him the 15$ and smartly winked at him, as if I was passing him a 100$ bill. He looked at me and realized I might be mentally deranged, so he took the bill, said goodbye, and left.
#12
Posted 22 May 2008 - 01:39 PM
Glad you got what you wanted, though. Next time don't drop your keys down an elevator shaft and then wail that the city is against you when it doesn't immediately rally to your service. Because, really.
#14
Posted 23 May 2008 - 04:15 AM
Man, that city sucks.
This post has been edited by civilian_number_two: 23 May 2008 - 04:18 AM
#15
Posted 23 May 2008 - 06:50 AM
Let me fix some of the problems :
- I was all alone in a huge city that I hate.
- I dropped the keys at arround 7:00PM, which I woudn't call exactly late.
- The landlady was a bitch.
- The gap in the elevator threshold was about the size of a small baby white whale. You could catch your foot in that gap, let alone a set of keys.
- In theory, the elevator company provides 24x7 support , and the technic guy was actually staying at home whilst being paied , as this was durring normal work hours.
- The landlady was a bitch.
- It's just that at 7:00 PM people would rather keep their asses at home rather than helping inocent visitors.
I'm not saying what I did was nice, or acceptable, or that I felt OK with it. All I had was 15$ worth of money, and no real imediate way for me to get any more. I assure you I was planning on giving 70 -100$ to the guy, if I had that money on me.
It might not have been pretty , but it sure as hell isn't comming close to closing the door on a poor smuchk that doesn't have a place to sleep over night because I'm too lasy to get my ass to give a simple phonecall to call for a technician.