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Drama in a Lift - WIBU ?

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elmofan · 28/08/2011 11:49

Last weekend i went away for a family get together with all of my extended family (17 of us)
I suffer from Claustrophobia (passed on from my DM who in the last five years has become to love lifts Hmm ) and lifts scare the hell out of me to the extent that i actually get light headed . Now my dh and family have always urged me to try overcome my fear of lifts , so on this weekend i decided to give the lift a go(not wanting to pass my fears onto my dc) . 11 of us got inside - 8 adults and 3 children, then the lift stopped on the 2nd floor to let more people in , i had already noticed the sign that said "no more than 12 people" so i gently pointed this out when the doors opened . A man held the doors open while he counted all of us in the lift , he stood there for 3 minutes waiting on his wife and child to catch up (panic rising up inside me) and argued that he & his wife and daughter would be fine getting into the lift - i pointed out that this would mean that there was two people too many in the lift and he ignored me and entered with his family , I got out of the lift with dd & ds and walked down the stairs as i could hear a "grinding noise " under the lift .
WIBU to storm out ? or was this man just rude to hold the lift up and then insist on getting inside with his family knowing it was overloading the lift .

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GreenEyesandHam · 28/08/2011 16:20

I think the combined weight of the 11 people inside the lift should have been employed to exert enough force to move the arrogant oik away from the doors

Bandwithering · 28/08/2011 16:24

When they say 12 people that allows for 12 large men I'd say.

But to be honest you'd be allowed ONE reasonable fear. Not wanting to go in lifts is not that big a deal. You're perfectly entitled to not want to go in lifts in my opinion!

cat64 · 28/08/2011 16:35

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elmofan · 28/08/2011 17:02

Smile cat

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