It's the little things that make life interesting...

When your apartment is on the 11th floor and you find a maintenance sign at the elevator door it makes one pause. WE ARE TRAPPED !!! This has never happened before.? How long will the elevator by out-of-order? We can walk down I think. But what about the walk up 11 flights of stairs!


I've never lived on the 11th floor before and I have no pacience for this. Laurie on the other hand does not seem concerned. If we just wait a while the elevator will be operating again she says.

In my mind I'm thinking “It's a plot! “they” have shut down the elevator and taken over the apartment bldg! I walk down to 10...there is no sign on the elevator door. I go down one more floor...the same. I then walk back up to 11 and my knees are feeling the strain. We try to call down to the lobby but the phone doesn't work! Laurie is still calm. By this time I'm ready to pound on the elevator door, when I see a young man coming up the stairs with a work light strung over his shoulder. He walks over the elevator door and I ask him ,in my poor Spanish, how long before the work is done? Then without a word he pushes the down button and the elevator door slides open.