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From: Ann.Stalnaker@p0.f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Stalnaker)
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Subject: Re: Travelin'
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Date: 25 Jan 91 17:22:21 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi, Jack - and you bet I'll give all of the support I can.
 
I'd like to point out something that I noticed while in Big D, the 
elevators.  Since I was working in a 25 floor building (office is 
on the 5th floor - Guaranty Bank Building (used to be Bright Bank)
in Preston Center) and using the elevators constantly since we parked 
our cars in the underground level and often ate on that level where 
the cafeteria was when we weren't out shopping.  Of course, there's
no visual light devices or TDDs to use with the elevator phones.
One of my aunt's employee's told a horror story about when she was 
trapped in one of the elevators last summer (there are around 8 
elevators - four on each side) - I thought, how would I handle this 
if it happened to me?  Well, it almost did happen to me once when 
I entered a defective elevator unknowingly.  Sure was a FUN 
ride...skipping two floors at a time, doors were opening and closing 
5 or 6 times before finally making up its mind to stop and get moving. 
It skipped my floor and took me all the way up to the top where I 
jumped out of there quickly and got on another one to go back down.
 
However, if I had been stuck, I would have been in BIG trouble with 
no way of using the phone other than perhaps just scream bloody murder!
 
I really think it should be a requirement to have visual lights for 
those of us who do not hear the announcers that some have as well 
as some way we can contact the building maintenance folks when we 
are trapped.  I'm not one who scares very easily but being trapped 
in an elevator with no way of communicating outside of it would frighten 
anyone.  In almost all big cities where there are more skyscrapers 
or tall buildings, there really isn't another way of getting around 
without elevators.  Escalators are another story, at least you can 
see where you are going and you can walk up and down if it should 
stop on you.
 

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