Monday, June 05, 2006

Paul thought he got stuck in a lift… - not quite yet!

As the department stores here have never ending floors, we decided to take the elevator in this particular store.
We stepped in to it and as you do I pressed the button to go up…A very small amount of time later, Bobbi decided things were taking too long and started pressing buttons (some of which she didn't know what they were). There was however this one little button which was covered by a large exclamation mark. Yeah she pressed that one too and the lift ground to a halt. Needless to say I nearly had a panic attack in typical Paul stylee. Many Bobbi button presses later and the lift started working again. Silly button pusher!
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[by Bobbi] And all of this happened in the span of 60 seconds… yes 1 minute in Paul's World Of Events all of the above went on.
I think he hasn't quite fully recovered from the time when he locked himself in the toilet at Kuju, where he used one of the cubicles with the light out.. (bulb had gone)
So after doing the business in the dark, he turned round to get out and realised that he couldn’t get out, he was frantically (in the pitch black) turning the lock and it appeared broken, he could feel his chest tighten, and then he began yelling, "Help! Help!" "I'm stuck, somebody help me!" He received no reply.. 15 mins later……..
His hand had an encounter with the bolt he originally used to lock the door, tiny rays peered inside from the gap of the door, allowing light into the cubical, when Paul realised - there was no magic here, there was simply 2 locks on the door. As one he discovered earlier was broken!
And the bolt which eventually let him out he had used time and time again about 500 times in the past 6 months he had been there.

1 comment:

AndyG said...

Hehe! I still laugh about that sometimes!