Grace here, now you know MOM'S side of the story of our little "elevator inncident," as i keep calling it anyway, but here's what happened on the INSIDE of the elevator!
Ginger (a YW leader) had just dropped us (me and Jada) off at the ward building, i saw Andie and Ellie inside the elevator, they beckoned me over and i hopped in the elevator, pulling Jada in with me. As the elevator slowly moved down to the floor below, we thought it would be fun to JUMP! so on the count of three, we all jumped really hard, we heard a clank, and the elevator stopped, at first we figured the elevator was at the next floor and waited for the doors to open, when they didnt we started to panic slightly. we yelled for Ali (who was out in the hall playing with the soccer ball) she came to the doors of the elevator and started yelling at us, telling us to press the "OPEN DOOR" button, well are we that stupid? we had already pressed all the buttons, except for the Alarm button. Ali went and got Lisa, and now Lisa was trying to tell us what to do , yelling instructions through the doors, still nothing.
none of us really knew what to do, andie was in a frenzy of tears, thinking we would not get out, and ellie and i kept pressing buttons in a panic, finally after at least ten minutes of confused panic, we calmed down and sat on the floor of the elevator. We did say a prayer hoping to get out, and then we told each other about our day, (long details, of every thing we did), we played Down by The Banks, and sat quietly, hoping we would get out soon, we heard muffled voices outside and tried to hear what they were saying, Ellie called up to Lisa wondering what was going on, Lisa said that they had a tool and were trying to get us out. on the other side of the small elevator we heard loud thumping and hitting noises, we were completly oblivious to the outside world, the lights flickered on and off every once and a while, we heard rumbling below us, and finally we heard a big "SHWONK!" and a man called out "i got the first door open!"
within a few more minutes we heard more noises and the door opened! WE WERE FREE!
about 5 or 6 frazzled men had broken the doors open. i ran out and hugged Amy (my AWESOME YW leader!) and mom. (mom here--notice the LEADER got a hug bofore ME?)
We went and played our wardball game (apparently the "game still goes on" even when half your team is stuck in an elevator) the game was nearly over and we got to play the last few minutes (except Jada who had burst into tears as soon as we got out):(
We lost 44-6.... :( oh well.
but were all well now, and safe n' sound.
2 comments:
well Grace you are as good a writer as your mom...made me laugh! you are bound to be stuck somewhere again someday and look at what you have learned!
Grace, Grace, Grace.......you know I just love ya! But please don't ever expect me to get in an elevator with you.
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