Elevator stories #1: Elevator action

Nono not the videogame, but now that I've mentioned it, wasn't that game amazing? Hehe I just came across a free download of it. I haven't decided if I want to risk installing it yet.

Anyway that reminds me of my minor mishap earlier this evening. I was coming back to work from my dinner break when I had a bit of a kerfuffle (hehe) stepping off the elevator and onto my floor. I had one foot on my floor and the other inside the elevator when I realized that I could no longer move forward. My right heel had unmistakably sunk into one of the little holes designing (badly, I have to say) the threshold. Not to worry though, I got out of that situation without shaming myself too much. Thankfully I was alone in the lift. Phew. Anyway I guess I retained an overdeveloped sense of respect for elevators from that scary incident when I was 10 (I got stuck between floors and had to force the elevator doors open before I could squeeze myself out), because I did not panic at all. That was surprising. Instead, I calmly placed my hand on one of the door sensors, pulled my right foot out of the stuck shoe, carefully placed two of my toes on either side of the heel base and made sure I had a firm grip before deftly dislodging the heel from the little hole. The guard had noticed my predicament and rushed over but I already managed to extricate my shoe and slip my foot back in it before he could get to me. I flashed him a smile and walked on, feeling triumphant.

That reminds me of this one very humiliating time, not too long ago, when my friends and I were on an escalator and my shoe got stuck at the bottom. I have this horrible habit of not stepping over the vicious teeth. The security guard had to stop the belt motor, steady me (I stood on one leg once we stopped moving), yank my shoe free AND hand it back to me. It was rather frightening. I imagined my foot getting chewed up while the belt fed the rest of my body in and then coming out at the other end all bloody and mangled. But the spectacle had gathered a small crowd of onlookers and I was too embarrassed to entertain such thoughts for too long. So I tried to laugh the whole matter off airily and continued walking in my damaged and misshapen shoe with as much dignity as I could muster.