Saturday, July 30, 2005

Crushing Elevator

I was staying at a hotel in an Atlantic City casino, and I had to take one of the elevators to get from my room - down to the casino floor. Once I got in, the elevator started going down - but as it did, the ceiling started to come down towards the floor even faster. The elevator was slowly going to crush me, and my only hope was that I would reach the bottom floor before the ceiling reached the floor.

As I was passing the 4th, 3rd, 2nd floors... I saw a chance to roll out of the current elevator and into one that was travelling beside mine. I rolled out and the compartment I was just in sealed up, but this elevator was doing the same thing. Luckily, as the ceiling had me pressed against the floor, the elevator arrived at my floor and the doors opened up to let me out.

There was a woman standing there, looking at me laying on the ground, and she helped me up. She took me over towards the casino security office to file a report about what happened. As I was waiting for the security guard to take my statement, a cleaning lady that worked for that same casino started laughing at me and telling me that I was full of it, and that none of what I said even happened. I started yelling back at her and threatening to chase her down and kill her if she didn't shut up, because I had video to prove what happened.

Mom and Dad were playing slots right next to the security office, so they both heard what happened - but they didn't seem interested, almost as if they were embarassed by the situation and didn't want anyone to realize that they knew who I was. The woman (who now is recognizable... it was Amanda from work...) and I then left the security office and headed towards the area of the casino where the "grabby games" are. I looked through a few of them, and played a couple times - trying to use the claw to grab a stuffed animal for Amanda, but I was never sucessful. We had to leave empty handed.