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From the thumbnail, I thought this was another post about bathroom scales.
Dull to most, but a terrifying nightmare for others.
I was wearing my backpack, I had to back into the elevator as there wasn’t really room to turn around inside
That’s a no from me, dawg.
Absolutely fucking awful…the elevator, not you.
Elevators without an inner door are quite common in Sweden, but most elevators are bigger than this.
Amount of room was my issue… not the lack of door… tbh, I didn’t even notice the lack of door
That’s terrifying. I can imagine a strap hanging off like a backpack or something and getting caught in the gap as the elevator rises.
That’s something that really fascinates me after moving here. Sweden has a lot of water wings on stuff compared to the US but the elevators feel like they were designed to cull the weakest
Did you die?
Not yet.
If you are still in there, I would have serious concerns over its destination.
it just orbits the Earth in a great circle
eh, it’s not THAT great of a circle…
I WAS BORN ON EARTH YOU SUMVABITCH, YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Like a confused TARDIS.
Did you live?
So far, yes.
I love caving. Show me a hole in the ground and if I can fit in it, I’m going in.
I would take the stairs everyday instead of getting in that thing.
My stage name is The Ground
That would make for some interesting roleplay.
In the Clarksville caves there is a section just before getting out called the chest compressor. Had a guy freakout that was maybe 40 feet from seeing daylight and 14 of us had to all crawl backwards to the core due to his panic attack and go out the way we came in.
called the chest compressor.
NOPE NOPE NOPE
This is one of the ressons why I would never do the extended tour of Moaning Caverns again. When I was in 6th grade on a field trip there, we were given the choice to do either the regular tour where you just take the stairs down into the main chamber, they tell you about it and turn off the lights which I had done a few times before on other field trips and with my family on vacation, or to rappel down and explore more of the cave. Other than 1 teacher, I was the only one who wanted to do the full tour.
Rappeling down was scary enough, but paled in comparison to crawling through the super small spaces down below the main room. I am so tall now that I don’t even think I could squeeze through some of the areas I remember.
Just nightmare fuel. heh. But part of it is that as I get older, I get more and more clastrophobic. My young brain didn’t pay attention, but my old brain doesn’t like getting into situations where it could be hard to breathe. Like… I’m a chair user, but I transfer and can even put the chair in my trunk and get into the car and drive. But I worry about being in an accident and being unable to get out of the car - not only for things like fire, but if my body were to be bent, I could easily get into a position where it would be difficult to breathe. And that sometimes triggers some mild panic that I have to calm before I can go drive. heh
When you’re young, you know you’re going to live forever. As I’ve gotten older, I appreciate how many times I haven’t died. :)
The fear can catch anyone. Its still a good day when you leave disappointed and not dead.
Just realized: Does the cabin not have a door??
Then it would be not dull, but terrifying! 😳Elevators without an inner door are quite common in Sweden.
They do have safety mechanisms to detect dangerous situations, but we have these fun signs on many of them…
⚠️
Risk of crushing
🧑💥
Dangerous to transport goods in elevators that lack an inner door or gate
(for anyone else that is curious what it says)
nope it says risk of clams you can’t lie to me
Mmmmm, steamed clams
Also, I love the term “Klämrisk”.
This is exactly what deliberate fake-Swedish would look like :-)Be careful! There might be clams!
Had mainly to chuckle because it just looks like the enswedification of the German word “Klemmrisiko”. :-)
YOU GOT KLAMMED!
TIL
Probably less actual than felt risk, but still…
On the other hand, I am also slightly frightened by moving stairs.
, I am also slightly frightened by moving stairs.
This is reasonable. And a reasonable level o fear, specifically.
Oh, are you between levels in this picture? Is that why it looks like a doggy door?
Yes, that is correct.
I’ve been in an elevator like this once. It made a bunch of scary sounds and did that shit that a roller coaster sometimes does as it’s going up a big slop where it feels like it slips a little bit. I used the stairs the rest of the time I was there.
How many floors high was it?
This affects me in ways I do not like.
Looks like a coffin.
Kinda felt like one when riding it
Have you been in a coffin before?
Hasn’t everyone?
Not yet.
Given your username, this is actually surprising.
is that a window or a cat flap?
I was heading down when I took the photo, it is a window
So everyone can just see your feet as you go floor to floor?
No, I was wearing shoes.
So the front of the elevator doesn’t have an internal door? I’m unnerved. I’m imagining a shoelace slipping in or something and then your leg gets pulled in.
It’s not that bad, when you have have an elevator without an inner door, you have tech like light curtains and pressure plates.
You can actually see the light curtain in the picture, it looks like a row of holes in the brass, and they send beams of light across the opening, and if any beam is disturbed, the elevator stops immediately.
The pressure plate is installed by the door, in floor or celing, any presure on the plate, if something has got caught, it will trigger and stop the elevator right away.
That’s really great to hear actually and does reduce me anxiety a fair bit. Although I’m sure a fair number of countries that have this style elevator haven’t caught up tech-wise yet. Idk if it would be immediately obvious if they do or don’t either.
DO NOT WANT
Oh. This reminds me of the old elevator at a place I lived years ago, that only had an accordion gate to separate it from the moving walls. My guests were often saying it “looked like the elevators in Titanic”.
You sure you didn’t get into a dumbwaiter by mistake?
That’s why I always make waiters take an IQ test before I enter them!
Do you at least buy them a drink first? Jeez.
The dumb ones don’t think to ask. Please, follow me.
No, I am not.
Is the elevator door a doggy door?
There is no door. That is the opening on the floor below.
Looks similar to the one in our previous building.
Just big enough to let the new dishwasher ride alone to our appartment, with practically no place to spare, so appr. 60x60cm².
Had a mirror on one wall, trying to make you feel slightly less claustrophobic. :-)
