Are you afraid of elevators?

[Endangered Specie]

[nini]

1. I won't get in or stay in a crowded elevator

more claustrophic than the elevator fear.

[Canuckistanian]

2. We've got a 100+ year old elevator at work

I will NOT get on that thing. It creaks, shakes, makes cracking noises and goes...very...slowly.

[vpigrad]

5. 100+?

Wow! We've got one that's 55 years old, and the state always balks at renewing the license for it. As fragile as ours seems, I can't imagine how bad one would be that's almost twice that old.

I only get on an elevator if I have to. Even a small fall can kill you. A guy at work died when he hit his head after a 4' fall. Imagine what a 10 story fall would do to you in an elevator!

[Canuckistanian]

7. Yep. Our Plant was once a wool making factory

They made blankets for soldiers in WW1.

[Endangered Specie]

8. Luckily for you...

Elevators have numerous safety systems, including brakes, which are tripped by high speed, as well as electromagnetic brakes which engage when the power is turned off to them. That and there are usually 4-8 cables holding an elevator up, and each of those cables are required to be able to support an overloaded car and counterweight.


Elevators just dont fall like they do in the movies. Most (non-maintenance) people die by elevator by foolishly prying open the doors and falling down the shaft.

and on edit: One time a elevator fell 70 some flight in the empire state building (a WWII bomber crashed into it and severed the cables), the guy in lived to tell the story.

[Gothic Sponge]

3. I prefer turbo-lifts

;)

[Endangered Specie]

4. From what Ive seen, todays elevators are safer...

I get irritated by the falling turbo lift episodes, bc I know that todays safeguards are much better (and hence, 400 years in the future, they shouldn't be worse)

[VOX]

6. Sometimes. It's the claustrophobia, not the height or fear of falling...

I have to use an elevator every day of the work-week, up to the 14th floor. The cars are crowded, they stop a lot before I make my floor, and they are very uncomfortable.

Over time and with exposure, I have gotten more used to them, but once in awhile, the claustrophobia is very intense. I just step off early and take the stairs.

[OnionPatch]

9. As long as I can't see out

I'm fine. Forget about those glass ones. I have a fear of heights.
I actually used to be an elevator operator! I took journeymen to the top of the blast furnace in an old rickety elevator in a steel mill. Wasn't scared at all but maybe that was because it was a pretty cushy job considering the other option was shoveling muck down in a hole somewhere. :tinfoilhat:

[Cush]

11. I'm with you on Glass Elevators

I hate heights, so I don't want to see it!

[libhill]

10. I`m very claustrophobic,

can`t stand elevators,I hate `em. Luckily, the building I work in only has 8 stories. On the rare occasions that I have to go to the 8th floor, I take the stairs. What the hell, it`s great exercise.

[Massacure]

12. When I was three years old, I got trapped in an elevator

I was with my mom. Whenever my mom braught me places we took the stairs after that. When my dad took me places, he forced me to take the elevator, and I would kick and scream.

haha, the good ol' days. Kids have it lucky, they don't have to worry about world events. They only care about their toys.

[flamingyouth]

13. I was stuck in one once for over three hours

We lived in a high rise building at the time. The worst part was, I had to go to the bathroom when I got *in* the elevator. It was not fun. :cry:

[tjwash]

14. I was in an elevator accident.

Cable snapped on the 23rd floor, but the safety catches got it after only falling three floors. I am still not afraid to do in an elevator, and now I figure that statistically speaking, I should be good for a million rides now.