Afraid of lifts when I was young - this is why!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2010
- Excellent find this one! What I've found here is some classic Otis lifts, with no modernisations at all (except maybe the infrared safety beam to reopen the doors).
No microprocessors here - these are 100% relays and mechanical logic.
When I was about 6-12, I remember most lifts being like these ones - creeky, gloomy, audible motor, poor lighting and, well, a dark metal box with no features. Forget the fancy LED lighting and mirrors of modern day lifts - this video shows how they used to be.
I was in London at 7:00 AM to film these lifts. I was hoping that the TRADE button would work, but it didn't!! Managed to do the "i'm on the mobile" trick, stand outside, then sneak in when someone was coming out! I wasn't leaving here with out filming these fantastic lifts!
You'll notice that the LH lift has a door at the back of the lift car. The RH lift doesn't. Really freaked me out when I opened the door while lift was travelling. There was nothing in there, but couldn't see until I saw the photo afterwards.
Hope you enjoy the video (sorry it's so long!!).
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"8 persons or 600kg or two big Americans".
Or 2 people from Yorkshire.
+HN02 Or twenty five 40 year old women from Bradford.
SuperRiki81 :)
Or the whale that's writing this comment
SuperRiki81 lmao
Me:
Not scared of ghosts
Not scared of Demons
Elevator? *dips*
sometimes phobias turn into facinations which I guess is what got me interested other than I enjoy playing around with electronic bits and pieces. No, not afraid anymore, the scarier the lift the better lol
Im terrified of lifts
Me too
BlueMooshrooMC Your profile picture is cringe and fucking shity.
Same boi but im lucky cuz im floor no.1
TinaLovesJesus same
TinaLovesJesus same
oh god i remember i hated those lifts, when i was a kid my aunt lived at the top of flat with the exact same lifts.
I used to dread going in the lift, it was just a cold, badly lit, metallic box of death to me, you could hear it scraping on stuff when it was moving, it wobbled and also bounced a bit too.
ilovetails123 These have since been modded :(
I'm claustrophobic so for me a horror film is footage of lifts getting stuck 😂
I'm so scared of getting in a lift and not being able to get out is flipping scary man
Im 48 and still scared of lifts. I wont go in one alone.
I was never in a elevator accident but I have bad dreams about them.
Huh, How was about is?
Meeeee toooooooo
How bad dreams, I'll never know it, hm?? 😕
Same
Exactly the same lift that gave me my life long terror of lifts. I used to visit my grandparents who were on the 21st floor and I can remember a time when the lights didn't work and on numerous occasions the lift would be way off level, or would stop at the wrong floor. A few times it seemed to drop really quickly too... o_0
What a fucking nightmare that was for me every other day back in the eighties!!!
This vid was terrifying to watch as I haven't set foot in a lift in about 20 years!
Exactly the same as me when I was young, perhaps my fear of lifts developed into my current facination with lifts, especially grotty and old ones.
Lifts of today are well lit, glass, LED lighting, smooth, but the lifts in this video take me way back to my childhood when most lifts looked like this - noisy, abrupt, dark, smelly and brutal!
You haven't been in a lift for 20 years? omg!
Yep still totally phobic of them 😨😨😲 hehehe
The other thing is i am fascinated with watching these vids of creaky-ass lifts from the safety n comfort of my home lol!
Thats my Halloween sorted lol 😆
Pamela Rose 4 yrs and counting🙋
Exactly, in the 80s I lived in a 9 story building with 4 old, wooden, shaky lifts and I was very scared of them! Today I don't have a problem with riding an elevator but I would never step in a scary old one like that...
Recently the lifts in that building were modernized... Finally
That's pretty awesome! That said, I hate tower blocks at work... the lift is never big enough for an ambulance trolley when you actually need one, and you end up carrying some poor person down 40 flights of stairs! I've seen a few like this, they are pretty scary to ride.
The only one I was on was in the county hospital when I was a kid. I really liked the motor hum and banging, being a born machine freak. I would stand outside just waiting for someone to push the button. Sometimes I'd sneak and do it myself just to listen to it, but I'd get in a bind quick if I got caught. I Like Your Stuff!
I love lifts I could live in one as long its a 1970s system!
The door at the back of the lift on the left is actually a storage compartment, usually used for storing lift mechanic's equipment locally (just like in your Out of Order segments). It's also used (if the people using the lift know this) as extra passenger space (ref. Out of Order segments)
I love this lifts!!!
Me too! :)
@thomasl1231 I've seen some also. When they modernise lifts, if they don't have the money to refurbish the whole lift car, only the controls get done. Some of the original fittings still remain, sometimes the doors as well.
Matt
Just listen to the motors, I love the sound it makes! It reminds me of the old lifts back in college. Thanks for sharing this, it was very uplifting!
Rackhams department store used to have a pair of those up until the late 1980s. 2 automatic lifts, with normal doors, and 2 manual ones, with the cage doors and an attendant per lift who drove the lift with an up-down lever. They used to shit me up but there was a certain luxury in riding in them. As a younger kid tho they REALLY shit me up.
I have to wonder how boring a job it was, driving a lift all day. Must have been very few operating by the 1980s, anywhere.
I still am. Lol, my parents say "Let's go to the elevator! I know its not broken", then I just scream and run away and said "NEVER".
Oh man, those elevators beat my childhood elevator nightmares right out of the water (I was born in 1994 and I only traveled in LH lifts in Europe). Kudos of being brave enough to actually travel with these, so much kudos.
***** Yep - the lifts of today and yesterday - vastly different. I love finding old ones, new ones are not scary enough lol
mrmattandmrchay Completely and utterly believing you.
Lack of maintenance. The doors are horrible, but they could be the old hydraulic Otis operators, which are impossible to keep smooth. The levels depend on the selector, and since Otis never made two selectors alike, I would have to see it. I would change it to vanes in the hatch, or better yet, an IP8300 with a selector tape, but that is not an easy conversion. Bottom line, you did not get stuck. Those are not errors, Otis just has timing issues with it's relays. My best guess for the door, is a phone box, but that is just a guess.
For someone who is afraid of elevators that I always try new situations. I have seen and appreciated that your video shot in Milan, where you enjoy and stop the elevator is moving! Even I am afraid the elevators since I was young but I'm terribly attracted to them. I like your video where you show lifts abandoned. Hello and keep going.
Thanks for the upload. Very similar to one I got stuck in (single door type) but same layout of controls. 4 hours as alarm did not work !!!
Used to be terrified of lifts but now fascinated by them.
Even got stuck in works lift for an hour last week, original express from 70s ;) all original fixtures.
Must try film it sometime ;).
@MrDiemme Thank you for your kind message. When I receive messages like yours, it gives me more energy to make more!
I'm happy you like the Milan "Emergency Stop" movie!
The doors are for stretchers to go in the lift in a emergancey lot of old lifts had this
I hesitated before I watched this incase I would be even more terrified of lifts... now I am!
Don't feel bad I have always and will always hate them...
I wish I had your courage ... However, in Italy would have a lot to enjoy here because there are many small and shabby elevators ... one of them is living in the building where my mother-in-law and was built in 1954. To see him go on and scares and get out alive is like doing Bingo! Thanks for letting me read it and responded ... sorry for my English is not good. Ciao dall'Italia!
Thank you so much ❤️😙❤️
Yeah I've seen that video before. Your right the brakes only work when moving down. The brakes are designed to stop a car falling. The brakes are effectively permanently clamped shut, and are attached to the lift cable, the weight of the car pulls the brakes open, if the cable snaps the brakes auto clamp.
Great video. Reminds me off the lifts at Lucy tower car park in Lincoln in the early 1980s. Was the same as this but with a yellow door .
I've got an old general store in my area (large one 8 floors, stuck in the 1940's still) And it uses lifts similar to this (I think they're from the mid 50's if I remember the info on the plate correctly) reminds me so much of them. Just wish the stores lift had windows. Always freaks me out when the elevators level and you can only feel it happening.
Very nice Old Otis elevator! Is look a Bennie elevator from part of that is very smilliar of those really. Wonderful elevator serial that moment.
The door at the rear of the cab is for extra space to Transport coffins. That is quite common in Apartment Buildings. Where my aunt lives, it has the same door at the back of the lift
Yup, I did an update to this video and it no longer exists th-cam.com/video/GNO0OaAwXiU/w-d-xo.html
I was always afraid of lifts when I was young too, but now iam older find them a godsend!
The lifts from the 60s and 70s inside concrete buildings were creepy, coffin like. Loud, abrupt and badly lit. Nothing like modern-day lifts. But the old ones still fascinate me! Thanks for the comment
Have a look at the elevaters in cane land central! (It’s in Mackey,QLD,Australia)
BAAAAAAD maintenance. No cookie.
I love that the lift's first stop is 2. I hate coming down in my lift for it to stop at level one to take some lazy bastard down one floor.
trip2themoon I think there is nothing on level 1.or maybe the builders skipped it to save money building the lobby.
the apartment that my aunt used to live had the exact same lift, oh god, i remember those things stopping between floors, stopping on the floor without opening the door and even opening the door while moving.
I'm going to share a story that I never told anyone. Well, by that I mean whoever I told it to didn't take it seriously, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.
When I was 7, we lived in this 3 story building in California, Los angeles, Kingsbury street. It was at the end of the street. It was a good building and had two elevators, one for passengers and a big one for heavy furniture. There was also two pools at the back of the building (one was a jacuzzi). One day just for the hell of it, I went to that old big elevator. As a kid, I though that the big elevator would get lonely because almost nobody used it, so I went there and before entering, it seemed different to me, somehow. I entered and the door closed and the lights flickered. It seemed like the bottom of the floor was getting covered in water and fog was filling the elevator! And it seemed the size of the elevator was bigger than I remember it to be! I looked at which floor I was on and when it reached G floor (garage floor, the pools could be accessed through the garage) I asked it to open the door, but it said it wanted company and didn't open! I tried banging on the door but to no avail, so I just sat at the center and started crying. Maybe it felt sympathy and opened the door. I promised it I'd be back and in an evil tone it said "I'll be waiting". I went to the pool, freaking the fuck out, my friends were there so I swam with them, played a bit and I went home using not the passenger elevator, but the stairs. The next day I asked my mom to come with me but when we went to that elevator it was normal! I begged her to take me to the pool with the other elevator but she said that theres nothing to be afraid of, of course she didn't believe my story. I refused to go on that elevator. Never. Even though my mom used it and told me to use the stairs so I could see it was nothing, I refused and I took her with me to the stairs.
In one of my nightmares, I go to that elevator, and it takes me to the lowest level. Not G, not -1, but -69. I was 8 years old when I had that nightmare and it was talking to me on the way down. I was scared as shit, I didn't know what awaited me at that floor! But luckily I didn't sleep long enough to find out.
White Dragon Ah sorry, I don't think I replied to you. Sounds like a nightmare! Once you get something in your head like this then it's difficult to remove it. It's a bit like my fear of water tanks - well, it's actually the ball value (floating ball and valve) that i'm afraid of. I'd have freaked out also, but NOW i'd love to get stuck in a lift for the experience providing I can film it lol
Yeah, but I guess it was a unique experience.
White Dragon
What building was that elevator in? Do you know if it is still original?
I think it hasn't been replaced, yes it is still the original one. I don't know the name of the exact location of my grandfathers house.
White Dragon
Can you try to describe the location? Is the building locked/does it have security?
That small door at the back wall of the lift car is for when the undertaker was taking a coffin in the the lift. Ours had that in the old high rise I lived in Manchester. Modern lifts don't have that. I guess they just stand the coffin upright nowadays. Also the reason why only one lift has that door in the block you were filming both lifts appear to be serving all the floors, in my old tower block 12 floors it was odds and evens lifts each serving every other floor so both of them had the door.
Excellent and interesting
I have been stuck in an elevator twice before. Not once but twice. The 1st time was in college and I was stuck for 3 hours. The 2nd time was in a shopping centre and that was for 1 hour 30 minutes
An that is why I don not use elevators!
That's the reason why I don't go by myself in a elevator I have to be with somebody like relative and carry a phone with me in case if the elevator get stuck for emergency I never like that elevator.
@Cazkumali Classic Otis lifts. The style of the on-off-on from the floor indicator lamps whilst the lift is in motion comes from a classic Otis floor selector in the motor room. I'll post a link of what I mean soon...
Old British Transport hotels are a great place to find vintage Otis lifts like this.....was in the Station Hotel in Perth the other week and they had one slap bang identical to this...two speed drive, same style of buttons....only thing was the Elevonic style direction lanterns which had obviously been added at a later stage.
The best way to get over your elevator fear is to become an elevator mechanic 😋
Okay that lift was sinister... Our lifts are circa 1962, they have just about started to throw I. The towel like these ones, maintained by Kone, they also midland, creak, groan, and generally struggle with a large gap between floor and car.... It's rather interesting to say the least! Haha
Yeah, well aware of this, if you look at the second page of comments on this vid then you'll find mine.
If you are relating this to the statement of Siansvids, then this is not the same thing we are talking about. In fact, I cannot even remember what the question was now as this thread has been going for a while now lol!! Something about "outer doors opened by themselves" without the lift being present.
I suppose anything is "possible", but there is a safety circuit which has to close before a lift will travel - All the landing doors have locks, when 'secure' they all form a circuit. If any door is not closed and locked, the lift cannot start. There is more to it than this (other situations that prevent a lift moving) but the door circuit is the main one.
Also - the brake is only released when the motor gets power. No motor power, no brake release.
That hatch at the back I'm told is for space to put coffins in. . Cambridge St.blocks here in Hull had EXACTLY the same lifts, until they were modernised two years ago. You can still hear the chains rattling. No audible motor now though.
I spent just over 40 years in the elevator industry, in everything from installation, service and maintenance, repair, modernization to management.
Elevators are about the safest means of transportation around. While I don't have any statistics, my guess would be that in the U.K., there are likely a lot more people killed in automobiles every day than are killed in elevators in a year. Compared to elevators, stairs are like a game of russian roulette.
Like any mechanical/electrical device, they can malfunction, however, they are designed to simply come to a stop in case they do. It can mean that any passengers might be stuck and have to be rescued, but the chances of them getting injured or killed are extremely low. I have personally rescued a number of stuck passengers, and never had one injury. This included an eleven year old who was estimated to have been stuck for about 42 hours. (He was taken to a hospital for a check-up, and then went to a birthday party.)
Unfortunately, when emotions come into play, the first casualty is rationality, and claustrophobia is an example. While there is no real physical danger, someone in that state is convinced that there is. I know. I've seen it happen, but I've also seen it happen in other enclosed spaces, like a bus.
While elevators have a great reputation for reliability, the best design is no match for the ingenuity of fools, and a lot of "malfunctions" are a direct result of misuse or vandalism. This video is a good example of that. I agree that the maintenance on these particular units does not appear to meet a very high standard, but what the rider was doing also does not appear to meet a high intellectual standard. What was the purpose of opening what appears to be some kind of access panel? He appears to be almost disappointed that it did not give him access to the hoistway. Let's also not lose sight of the fact that he never got hurt in any way, even though I almost expected him to trip in the entrance in order to show that the car did not land level with the floor.
In defence of the elevator, as well as Otis, the unit appears to be from the fifties or sixties, and my guess is that it is a "single speed A.C.", meaning that it slides to the landing by the removal of power to the A.C. motor and the application of the brake. While car car should normally stop within an inch of the floor, there are a number of factors that could affect that, including lack of proper maintenance.
If you want to be safe, stay away from cars, busses, aircraft, ships and most other forms of transport, as well as stairs, sidewalks and ramps. Take an elevator instead.
I had a similar fear of elevators as a young kid, they were gloomy and noisy. As I got to understand how they worked, that all went away, although it's still no fun when an elevator stops between floors unexpectedly or the doors fail to open (the joys of poorly maintained elevators in old factories).
I recall one elevator in an old dorm building when I was in school, it had the kind of floor select buttons in the car that latched in mechanically when you pushed them. But the 'best part' was the leveling on the ground floor: it would just about stop about 4 inches above the floor and then drop to the level point. Very disconcerting the first time.
Cheers :)
+Jim Dickenson I share your fear from when I was young. Only yesterday I went into an old lift in Birmingham (modernised a little bit though) and I realised why we were afraid of them - gloomy scary dark metal box, and I can imagine being young and not understanding enough about lifts to "not" to terrified of them.
Schindler did some "pop out button" lifts. They were quite popular because you could cancel a call by pulling the button out, although not many people knew about it. Thanks for the message.
Your right about point 1, I remember seeing in operation on glass lift shafts. Makes sense, cheaper & a good fail safe.
I did watch a documentary about elevator evolution & people falling down lift shafts as I can remember thinking how did they not see ( I assume they talking with head turned ). I think this was in USA pre 1950 when door operation was manual.
As for point 2, its customary in council high rise blocks ;)
@MrDiemme Nothing wrong with your English - it's very good.
Cool, looks like you are a lift/elevator fan also! I love old lifts, especially lifts "BEFORE" LED displays were invented!
I like that you find windows on the inner doors of windows scary... the elevator at my apartment building in lebanon (built sometime around 2000) has o inner doors... just the wall of the shaft and the outer doors passing by as you ride the elevator...
i would love to see the machine room of this scary elevator
not the only one i'm scared of lifts now still!
There is one lift in a block of flats close to me that has such a 'cabinet' as well. There's 2 lifts serving all floors and only one has this. It is about half the height of the cab and it is there to fit larger objects in the lift as there is no seperate freight lift for moving furniture items.
I don't know why the did not just make the cab bigger but i guess something else must be taking the space above the cabinet.
I actually used to be scared of lifts just like you
I know I'm late to the party here with my comment, but the cupboard part in the lift was so coffins fitted in, otherwise they would needed to be stood upright and that isn't practical.
gotta love 'em!
Oh no. If you can see into the shaft like that, it could mean that the lift needs to be replaced, fast!
A mate of mine was furiously buggered by an off duty traffic warden in a lift like this. It was between floors and the power failed. 3 hours of arse action left him bleeding like a pig. He is now unable to fart.
+Southmead Lad That's a very random reply! :D
The door at the back of the car reveling the cupboard is what is known as a "coffin lift "this space at the back of the car was provided for removeal of bodies from tower blocks by undertakers and ill people on trollys by ambulance crews where the depth of the car restricted horizontal movement of patients so this is why this extension was provided.
These lifts were unusual in Hull, as all the high rise blocks had Shorts-Pickerings lifts, same thing, audible motors, buttons high up that you pushed in. Non automatic, and the lift would stay were it was until called. Most are modernised, and are now VERY slow.
@XoBleedingHeartoX hehe, actually I was working nearby and got here especially early to film this. I was hoping that the "TRADES" button on the intercom would be working, but instead I had to hope someone came out and didn't question me when I slipped in :D
But what does the trades button do?
The lift you mentioned failed because the winding motor brake failed & the lift mechanics cant tell that its the counter balance pulling the lift up, not the winding motor puling the cable up. Its very likely theres a centrifuge brake as part of the winding gear as a safeguard to ensure that if this very problem occurs, the lift cannot travel at too faster speed. Though admittedly, had anyone been in that car, they would have been left with a sore head as their hit the roof.
Are you some sort of lift enthusiast?
+TheDylarianGamer Yep see some of my latest stuff. This is an old video I did (and somehow very popular, not that i'm complaining!)
+mrmattandmrchay
thats the skate touching the door roller as it passes
+Tony Baines
the level problem is the brake you cant go around adjusting all the flags,vanes as you put it, and the access door is what you call a coffin door for that purpose
I was scared by lifts too , but now it's my passion :D
Same as me! I'll have a look at your channel later.
Ok ;)
@@mrmattandmrchay Me too.
There is only one motor to open the doors - it is located on top of the lift car. Outer doors are just static items with a lock on them - they cannot open on their own without the lift car next to them, as there is nothing to drive them open.
Without knowing the exact facts of that incident on the move you posted, it can only be...
1) The lift wasn't level with the outer doors but enough so the door motor could drive them open, there may have been a gap - BUT... (continued 2...)
Dude, my elevator is double exit, one of the double doors is opened by hand rather than mechanism and the other double door would be the same IF IT WASN'T MISSING! When the elevator moves you have the walls of the shaft moving right next to you! You can touch them!
Uploaded 24 videos like you told me cheers mate
I think these Otis lifts are from the late 70's as Cambridge St were built around this time, very American. I'll try and get a vid of the ones here, and the unmodernised lift in Milldane 22floor high rise before it's demolished. Very fast, and scary looking.
when i was little, with my grand mother we took the lift and it started going crazy and it rush on the ceiling super fast and then stopped and we got stuck
"There was nothing in there, but couldn't see until I saw the photo afterwards. " - yeah right!
Your right, the moment people are leaving the car is the biggest danger. As computers & sensors are so common these days, I would have thought modern elevators have extra control gear to detect & prevent this problem. But Im guessing as I dont actually know.
nice lift
In Port Aventura Hotel Caribe in Barcelona, me and my mum got stuck in a lift which looked really dodgy. There were three floors but the panel with the numbers on went up to 9 which was confusing, so when the lift went up and then down again twice we pressed the emergency alarm thingy! It was in Spanish! The doors then opened onto a brick wall so we closed them and the next time we got out! Scariest moment of my life!
+Harriet Grace That would have really freaked me out when I was a kid, but now my fear of lifts have turned into a fascination. I'd wish that would happen to me now - I'd start filming! ;)
+mrmattandmrchay now just turn your fear of water tanks into a facination
yeh, i seen a bit of a drama and had some as well. Few weeks ago the one lift in my building was about 2" above ground on the ground floor and the doors keep closing and opening by itself, some the door stopped half way, it was a bit scary and i was tempted to go in and investigate but didnt in case i got trapped in it.
(2>>) BUT... then there is a kind of 'skirt' under the lift car so you cannot see down the shaft (unless it's missing?)
2) The lift arrived, opened the doors, but then drifted upwards leaving the doors open and shaft exposed - BUT, the outer doors are normally sprung-loaded and will naturally close if left alone
3) The outer doors were unlocked and were opened by someone forcefully BUT this will open the safety circuit and stop lift
The ONLY incident i heard of was the (to 3...)
That hatch could be for when the remove a body in a coffin.. it allows you to keep the coffin level
I rarely get negative comments like this, but when I do it's always from someone who 1) doesn't know anything about me, my life, my family, etc 2) gives me a negative comment, then when I check on HIS channel videos, oh, you don't have any
The door at the back of the lift car is so coffins don't have to be stood on end
probably the machine are rusty .....
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in the US these might open at street level to obey ADA. it could be a rear door or have all floors on the same side. bottom floors might be -1. S, 0, 1, 2 for example. S is the street level on the back door of the lift.
1:39 no.8 did'nt light up
Whenever I'm inside the lift here in the building where I am living, it scares me everytime I hear ANY KIND of noise, likd rattling sounds. It feels like the cable would snap anytime.
At least you didn't get stuck...
I was scared of lifts when I was young. It was when some weight is put in a lift they sometimes sink a bit.
+Telfuke This sounds like a hydraulic lift. If the lift drops too much the pump is switched on momentarily to relevel the lift (this is probably what you are talking about here). A traction lift doesn't do this.
Thank you for your response. I guess also a person would survive this crash into the roof. I think, it would be best to sit on the cars floor. But the real danger is the moment, when people are leaving the car and the elevator can not hold its position. But I assume most modern elevators have some extra technology to prevent this, don't they?
If it's 'Otis' it's all good!
Reminds me of the buggy ones in Swindon
Recently me and 3 of my friends got into a modern elevator... no matter how much we pressed the button the door would not close until the door just shuddered loudly and closed. We would’ve gotten out if we could but we were in there and the thing didn’t move and the doors wouldn’t open for like 5-10 mins
Sounds like fun! Not sure if I mean this in a good or bad way haha! I would have started filming ;)
The one that scared me was a schindler but it is also a total death trap most of the time now it is broken
I was just about to leave a comment about the 13th floor being here without "disguise" like in some other buildings just to find out int he related videos you even did a video about that ^^
lol, yep!
mrmattandmrchay I really like the videos of residential buildings, appartment blocks and flats. While I am a bit sick of the KONE freight lifts at work for being quite faulty I have an old 1969 "BURG" elevator (now maintained by KONE) in the building I live in, just with grey carpet to the walls and in in 1970's olive green.. :) Maybe I should take a video before that one gets modernized...
Scary lifts...!
Lifts are perfectly safe, if the cables snap its impossible for the lift to fall. There are only TWO serious dangers.
1: When calling a lift, the doors open but the lift isn't there. People have fallen down lift shafts as they stepped in without looking.
2: When inside the lift, you select your floor & the door closes. Only then do you notice the semi solid turd a previous occupant left in the corner or dubious slime swinging from the ceiling.
The elevator at my dad's work has the floor caved inwards
+RadandRylo sounds interesting! I take it the lift no longer works?
I WILL ALWAYS TAKE STAIRS as I have for the past 5 years (unless it's like 70 floors then I weep like a baby the entire time)
I road in noisy lifts before, didn't think nothing of it. Just looks like a bad horror scene. I got in a elevator that hit the wall and turn sideways in the shaft and got stuck. I still ride them, isolated incident, shake it off man. Your a guy who still remembers the monsters in your closet. You good bro, snap out of it. Also stop watching horror flix
I had a friend who was scared of lifts, but he took some steps to combat it.
I don't live "in" London, but about 40 miles to the west of it.