Lift

Had over 2 hours of my life stolen from me on sunday night, was coming up from downstairs at abt 11:30pm, bloodly lift got stuck, just b4 my floor. so i pressed the button to get help, lady says she'll let the technician know, so i just wait around for him to come. luckily i had my mobile with me so had ppl to talk to, to pass the time, and i got my housemate to pass me some magazine thru the tiny gap we managed to pry open in the outside doors (the inside doors were easy to force open, the outside doors weren't easy, spose they designed not to open unless lift is at the right level, u know, to stop ppl from jumping to their deaths). anyway, ended up waiting for nearly 2 hrs (i repeated got the lady to contact the technician, but all they could do was leave a message on the pager of the lazy bastard who was meant to be on call but was sleeping). was tempted to call the fire dept, fake an asthma attack or chest pain or something, but then thot i might have to pay them if i called them just to get me outta a lift (sorta like how u have to pay to ride in an ambulance to hospital). so getting all macgyver-ish, i forced the door open a bit more, got my housemate to pass thru some thick-nosed pliers and dismantled the guide-rail at the bottom of the outside door, and managed to pull half of the door off the rail and partially into the lift, making a gap just large enough to squeeze thru (luckily i ain't got a beer gut, and that the lift was only abt 50cm below the level it was meant to be). so i get out, savour the fresh air and feeling of freedom...and then goto bed right...this was nearly 2am by the time i got out...and then...i get woken up at 6am by the lift technician who was like "oh got a page saying u stuck in a lift?"...unfortunately i was too groggy from just being woken up to swear at the fucker...imagine if i didn't have my phone with me, i'd have been stuck in the lift for at least 6.5 hrs and have to sleep on the hard tiled floor...hope that guy gets stuck in a lift with nobody to get him out...haha...

anyway, since i was bored i took some photos with my mobile...enjoy...haha

btw i've still been riding the in the lift since then...but when i came home this afternoon it had broken down again...hope nobody was in there...