Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Elevators and Automatic Car Barries

I have two stories to tell you today. The first takes place in an elevator at the Eyring Science Center.

So I had about an hour between classes and needed to work on homework, so I thought I would do it in the ESC. I walked in and thought, "It would sure be fun to take the elevator!" (I only needed to go up one floor.) So I pushed the button and waited for the doors to open. When the doors opened, to my surprise it was full of people and scales! I didn't want to look dumb and leave now that the doors were open, so I hopped in. Assuming that the floor I walked in on was the 1st floor, I pushed the button with a 2 on it. Not wanting to make the situation awkward, I made a little small talk.
"What are you guys doing?"
"We're just doing a Physics project."
"Oh...on what?"
"We're weighing ourselves while the elevator is standing still and while the elevator is moving to see the difference acceleration makes."
The small talk was nice and all, but I figured that by this point I should've made it up one floor. As far as I could tell though, the elevator hadn't moved. And the door was still closed. I stood for a moment in the silence. The people doing the physics project were looking at me expectantly, and I turned to see if I had actually pushed the button. Nothing was lit up. I was a little embarrassed, and I pushed the button with a 2 on it again. Not moving at all, there was a ding and the door opened.
"Weird! I guess I did go up and I just didn't feel anything!" I thought to myself.
"Well, bye guys! Good luck on your project!" I shouted to the people on the elevator as I stepped out onto the....2nd floor?
A guy in the elevator shouted, "Wait!"
But I was already gone. I wasn't going to get back into that elevator and face those people and tell them I had just gotten off the elevator on the same floor that I had gotten on the elevator! That's way to embarrassing! I had no choice but to walk up the stairs to the 3rd floor which is actually where I wanted to be. The only reason I hadn't felt the elevator move is because it hadn't...

Stinkin' BYU buildings that make you enter on NOT the 1st floor.


Now for my second story. You know those automatic car barriers that they have in parking garages and stuff? Well I pass by some of those when I walk home from campus to get to  my dorm. But today as I was walking by the barrier was up and I didn't notice it. Then all of a sudden it came down like...2 inches away from my face! It scared me really badly, and there just happened to be some guy watching who started laughing at me. I felt pretty dumb. And lucky that my face was still in one piece.

Sadie, did you write about when we got hit by a bus? Just in case, I'll tell everyone. Me and Sadie got hit by a bus! It was tragic really. It ran over Sadie's leg, and, since we don't have a car, I carried Sadie all the way to the...Payson hospital. (It's the only one I know directions for.) We finally made it there by midnight but by that point she had lost so much blood that they had to amputate her leg! Luckily for us we were able to catch a bus home that night. Especially because me and Sadie know that it is important to take turns, and it would have been Sadie's turn to carry me all of that distance.

Okay so that's not really what happened...the real story is way more boring. We were walking across the crosswalk and the light for the oncoming traffic turned green. We had almost crossed the street when suddenly a bus starts driving towards us! It was honking too! I hope that it would have stopped for us had we not ran the whole two feet we had left before we were off the road, but it sure didn't seem happy to have to wait for even one second for us to move. It was pretty scary.

The End.

-Jessica


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