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Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I've been stuck in a lift.

Seriously - be honest - where's the punch line


What do you want a punchline for?

Youse were saying that youse didn't know anyone who had been stuck in a lift. Well I have. Leeds Poly c1973.

 

(For my younger readers, a Poly or Polytechnic was a higher place of learning where one could take a degree course, before they rebranded them all, and your local tech and FE colleges, as Universities)

Garage Joe

I had the narrowest of escapes from a lift when our town had a complete blackout.  Had just got out of the lift and it hadn't even closed behind me when everywhere went dark.  I was in a shopping centre at the time and it was one of the scariest things ever.  Trying to find my way to a taxi rank in the dark with a screaming 3 year old and the whole time thinking there was going to be a bomb somewhere (seriously....I was freaked out and it seemed like the only explanation at the time ) was pretty scary! 

 

It was just a mass blackout though that effected the entire town.  Went on for hours too!

 

So ummm, no.  I haven't been stuck in a lift.....thankfully!  

Ells
Originally Posted by Cinds:

Joe mentioning being stuck in a lift at Leeds Uni, reminded me of visiting a mate at Birmingham School of Food & Hospitality in the late 1990's.  The lifts in that building were awful.  Wooden coffin sized lifts on a continuous loop, they never stopped you just had to hop on and off them.  

A famous local large employer had the same system.

Garage Joe
Originally Posted by Saint:

Its not the 1 in 3 chance of getting cancer that caught my interest.

 

It was the 'chances of getting stuck in a lift are 1 in 24,000'

 

Which means .... does the math . . . if there are 62million people in the UK there should be more than 2,500 people who have been stuck in a lift!!!!

 

Really?? !!! Have you ever met one???

 

No, but I have known many lifts to fail, just that they did not happen to have anyone in them at the time.

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Originally Posted by Cinds:

Joe mentioning being stuck in a lift at Leeds Uni, reminded me of visiting a mate at Birmingham School of Food & Hospitality in the late 1990's.  The lifts in that building were awful.  Wooden coffin sized lifts on a continuous loop, they never stopped you just had to hop on and off them.  

A famous local large employer had the same system.

Who?  I'm just nosey.

 

My employer (yeah it's me & my husband make me share a toilet with our badly toilet trained salesman), I go home when there is serious business to do.

Cinds
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by Cinds:
Originally Posted by Saint:

I had meningitis when i was 4

Well you are a very very lucky man.  (Not that you had meningitis, but that you survived it)

Fankoo Cindy - twas not nice at all

Do you remember it?  Or do you just have 'verbal' memories of it?  I'm not being contentious, just asking?

Cinds

I remember it - horrible experience, all the classic symptoms and 2 weeks in hospital.

Headache, sore neck, sun was killing my eyes (no recollection of any rash though) felt exhausted and asked for a carry but my mum had shopping so she sed nope. I never made it up the hill to our house.

Mum sed i went totally rigid - i remember a bolt of lightening up my back.

Thats it

Saint
Originally Posted by Saint:

I remember it - horrible experience, all the classic symptoms and 2 weeks in hospital.

Headache, sore neck, sun was killing my eyes (no recollection of any rash though) felt exhausted and asked for a carry but my mum had shopping so she sed nope. I never made it up the hill to our house.

Mum sed i went totally rigid - i remember a bolt of lightening up my back.

Thats it

I only asked because I've had 2 family members have meningitis when they were little, one survived the other sadly didn't make it.

Cinds
Originally Posted by Saint:

Oh wow i'm sorry to hear that - truly

Wish i could say it was nothing and i didn't feel a thing but in all honesty it was awful.

The only after effect my mum claims (which i dispute) is that i have very poor eye sight. - its fine with glasses or contacts ... but it is very poor indeed

You don't have to say sorry it was a long time ago and....well just and. 

 

The baby that survived was lucky because he caught the meningitis bug at birth, but he had also swallowed the meconium and so had been administered strong anti biotics so when it hit, he was drugged up, so to speak.

 

The other boy, sadly developed it and died a week before his 1st birthday.

 

Cinds

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