QotD: Send For Help! Or Not...

You're trapped in a (temporarily) out of order elevator - who would you like to be trapped with? 
Submitted by tbtissimus.

This has actually happened to me. 

I was at work and on my way to pick up an interview candidate at the front desk and was late, so I took the elevator which I try to avoid (I send things up the elevator and then race it up the stairs and meet it at the destination). 

Bwp

I was working at Amazon.com at the time and the PacMed building had just been opened.  They were working out some of the old buildings kinks.  This clearly was not one of the elevators used for emergencies.  Anyway, they had put white boards in the elevators.  So here I am with two other people I did not know and who did not know each other.  None of us spoke the same language… (though they spoke enough broken English to get by); we used the white boards as out amusement.   It was about the same time as the release of the Blair Witch Project so we were making jokes about 3 people going into an elevator… drawing crazy stick people on the walls.

I think we were in there for about a half an hour.  By the end we were all laughing.  None of us were nervous or panicked about it, as it was a nice break from the monotony.   The elevator after all was stuck somewhere between the first and second floor and there was not that much below us.  The only time that any of us felt anxiety over the experience was when someone would come over the elevator intercom and tell us “not to panic,” after all it only made us question if perhaps there was a reason why we should panic.

Were it to happen again I would sort of wish for the same sort of companions.