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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/splattercat360 on 2026-05-08 02:02:22+00:00.

For some reason this is genuinely the funniest thing that has ever happened to me. I'm sure we've all seen those videos of people dropping their phones perfectly down that little crack at the elevator door and the poor phone just disappearing into the void. WELL. Today that was me :)))

I pulled out my phone to check the time right when the elevator stopped on the 3rd floor but there were people waiting to get on, and because my nervous system can't tell the difference between being ambushed by a mountain lion and seeing people when you get out of the elevator, I got startled and dropped my phone. Uh oh. The crazy thing is that I literally KNEW it was going to fall down the crack the moment it left my hand. It's like I had a Final Destination vision. All I could do was stare helplessly as my phone tumbled to its demise.

Anyway god knows how long it'll be until they send someone to retrieve the phone from the bottom of the shaft so now I have no way to communicate with the outside world and I can't log in to any of my school stuff because my 2-factor authentication is on my phone. AND the phone is probably fucking destroyed since it fell down 3 fucking floors and a basement level!!

TLDR: I dropped my phone 4 stories down an elevator shaft and I didn't even get a viral video out of it. Fuck my life.