No, but I've not met 24000 people and brought up with each of them, the subject of being stuck in lifts. 

Carny now that's being perdanticky

Surely it wud arise as subject matter sooner or later without the need to be raised by you.

Seriously - be honest - where's the punch line

I don't think I've been stuck in a lift, but I have been stuck in an underground train!

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)

I jus fort your wuz joshin' Joe

You are one in 24,000

Now yer talkin !!!!

Come to think of it - that wud o frightened me

I was beginning to feel a bit panicky, when the train started to move again and was able to get to my stop, luckily.

If my stop hadn't been next on the line I think I would have got out at it anyway....and continued my journey later or by a different mode.

I've been stuck in a rut. 

I had meningitis when i was 4

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!  

I have, and not soooo long ago either. Was about two years ago. Stuck in the Metro lift 

   Awwww

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

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.  

Did your thong type that?

Fankoo Cindy - twas not nice at all

A famous local large employer had the same system.

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

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.

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

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 thought you would say them.  

Not for some inner wisdom, but just because I knew you used to work for them. 

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.

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.

in hospital all i remember is that the doctor drew a cat on my arm then stuck a needle in its nose - i howled!!!

And the food was horrible . . .

You know Renton, you're very lucky to walk out of it unscathed. It's a horrible horrible infection.

Anyway, to lighten the tone, I once got stuck in a marshy bog.  I lost my best red wellies 

Yes - i work with some disabled people who had the same infection as me - i'm very lucky indeed.