Care to share your most memorable elevator experience?

My favorite actually happened to my Mom. She and a about 7 middle-aged female friends were on an elevator when a 30-something guy got on. The doors closed. The most attractive of the bunch, my Mom’s friend Pat smiled and said, “Let’s get him, girls!” The look on the young man’s face was, apparently, priceless!

This happened to someone I know, not me: at his college orientation, a big group of people went streaking across campus. Afterwards, he got stuck in an elevator with one of the girls from the group…and his parents.

I got stuck in an elevator for an hour with a cadaver once.

So… my dad was in the hospital. On the way between the city where he lives and the one I call home is a semi-famous BBQ place. Dad asked if I would bring him a chopped brisket sandwich, and naturally I was happy to oblige. I put it in one of those little Igloo coolers along with all the fixings.

When I arrived at the hospital I got in the elevator along with an older couple who became noticeably uncomfortable. I then realized that they thought I was transporting transplant organs in the cooler. We had a bit of a laugh about it before reaching our respective floors.

I rode with Tony Randall and Bella Abzug in Albany, and with Joan Jett and two band members at West Point. And last year our power went off in the building. I was just hanging out with a few other people and faint “Help, Help” starts coming from the elevator. Yup, some claustriphobic guy was freaking out in there.

I was at the hospital waiting for the elevator the doors open I step in.

Then a nurse is pushing an empty bed for transport pushes the bed in the elevator right into me & the doors close and he says *“I wouldn’t touch that, it’s contaminated..”

Wtf! You touched me asshole! When I got out I was automatically at the hand sanitizer station..I wanted to eat the stuff at that point.

For a week I worried about what illness I was going to get.

Having the elevator I was in at an apartment building in Taiwan a few years ago stop due to a moderate earthquake. Yikes!

Gorgeous building, all marble, and I was on the 4th floor.

Thank God it was only for a few minutes, but very scary.

I wonder if anyone has hit the STOP button to have sex like they always do in the movies. The few times I’ve seen the STOP button pressed, it has always caused a persistent annoying noise.

One time the elevator stopped between floors. I pried the doors open and climbed out. The what-if-it-starts-moving-as-i-am-half-way thought did cross my mind for a split second. This has probably happened to everyone. Wish I had something more interesting to share!

Me and some other kids were playing around in our hotel’s elevator in Mexico. I was about 7. We pressed all the elevator buttons a million times, some at once, crazy with the buttons.. the elevator started to go up at some point, and then, amidst all our button-pushing, the elevator just stopped.

We rang the alarm bell in a giant panic and prayed for rescue! We were stuck in there for what felt like forever and I was really scared because I thought I was going to die of suffocation in the elevator.

(probably was, in reality, like half an hour)