In a Hurry to Die

 This story about a woman dying in an elevator is one of those "freaky accidents" that makes us stop to wonder, "How could this happen? That could happen to me. Should I be more cautious now?"


It's about an executive who was going to work one morning when the office building's elevator doors closed on her leg. Usually, the elevator doors automatically respond to resistance and open up again, so the person or object that stopped the action of the doors from closing, can safely enter or exit the elevator.
It seems that in this 'freaky accident', the doors did not respond to resistance and the woman's leg was caught in between the doors, pulling it up, along with the ascending elevator until it crushed the leg and killed the woman, somehow.  (I wasn't there)
This happened, in view, of two horrified elevator passengers who were traumatized by the entire incident. The article didn't mention the blood curdling scream that probably accompanied the accident.
I cannot even imagine this scene; unless I put myself into a trance.


This is an everyday, normal activity: walking on and off an elevator.
After hearing about this story, my husband decides to share his 'freaky' elevator story. The one I never
heard.
Why now? Isn't this important to know that elevators are dangerous; although, we take them for granted when they automatically respond to touch, like our home garage doors.


When electric doors don't respond, you can die, as simple as that. Never mind when the elevator doors open and there is No elevator...just follow the rule: Look before you leap.


So my husband tells me that he once tried stopping an elevator door from closing, years ago in a foreign country, when the doors closed on his arm. It terrified him, also, because he had to pull with all his strength to get his arm back.  In the process, the doors pulled his watch off, so his arm could slide through the closing doors, back to his body. He was so traumatized by the incident, he can't remember what happened to his watch.


Yes, we are always in a hurry and we depend on everyday electronically operated equipment to function perfectly and respond to our busy life style. Does it take a death to bring to our attention that everyday, what seems a normal activity, can be a life threatening factor. Somehow we don't think of elevators, like we think of driving a car on a high speed freeway. For one thing, we don't have a lot of control over the automatic doors, except to stay out of their way.


This should be a lesson in patience.
Let all automatic doors close and don't try to stop them from closing whenever you are in a hurry, just to be on the safe side.