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I am riding a tiny elevator
(thelemmy.club)
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. :)
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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.
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?
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.
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You sure you didn’t get into a dumbwaiter by mistake?
No, I am not.
That's why I always make waiters take an IQ test before I enter them!
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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. :-)
DO NOT WANT
Or you're just a giant!
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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".
Had one of these at my university, fun to ride if just for the novelty
oh they used to have one like that in central stockholm, but it was apparently built for multiple people. i literally could not walk inside, i would have had to sidle in. also, the weight rating was "5 people or 200 kg" which tells you a bit about when it was built.
I wanna be swedish
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