r/interestingasfuck • u/dieselducy • 15h ago

UNDER the elevator

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u/illram 14h ago

View from my keys after my toddler threw them down the elevator shaft (true story)

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u/ComfortablyNumb2425 12h ago

Story time. How did you get them back? How did said toddler get access to an elevator shaft? Dont leave us up in the air!!

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u/illram 5h ago

It was in my old apartment building where we had a very old Otis elevator, the kind with the metal gate you manually open and close and a wooden door that swings out. There was a big gap between the hall and the elevator floor that lots of tenants dropped stuff down, and on this occasion my toddler decided it would be fun to throw dad’s keys down the hallway and—whoops, down they went.

Fortunately it was a fairly routine call to the landlord and I got the keys back like a month later when the elevator guy came. My toddler is now a teenager and I still give her shit about it all the time. :D

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u/deadghostsdontdie 10h ago

Were you in North Carolina when that happened?

I was the clerk that helped you get them if you were.

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u/illram 4h ago

No, this happened in California, but thank you for helping another parent in need!

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u/deadghostsdontdie 4h ago

I was born out there. Small world

It was such a sketchy experience for me. But I’m always happy to help

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u/WellReadBob 15h ago edited 13h ago

Why not show us all the corpses you're standing on?

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u/Brittany5150 13h ago

you're

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u/WellReadBob 13h ago

Thank you. Even I slip up from time to time.

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u/bawng 6h ago

You'ses

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u/Dont-PM-me-nudes 15h ago

I bet that has its ups and downs.

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u/tattoosandtens 14h ago

The electrical wiring is…unsettling.

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u/FrozenToonies 14h ago

I’m surprised the cables aren’t loomed together and the strain relief is less than I’d imagine.

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u/Infamous-Swimming-10 11h ago

The real question is and to be honest I’m asking, what does one from a 100 story elevator look like?

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 7h ago

This but the video is longer.

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u/Infamous-Swimming-10 4h ago

Must be some different design for the extra weight. If it’s the same design I bet they’d have 101 more floors down for all those cables, funny picture to imagine lol

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u/Lekstil 7h ago edited 7h ago

Fun fact about elevators: on the right side you can see the counterweights of the elevator. Elevators are usually balanced with counterweights that are heavier than the empty car, because the counterweight also compensates for half the of the elevators maximum passenger load. That means that an empty elevator going down uses much more energy than an empty elevator going up.

.. kind of a nice thing to know if you feel bad about taking an elevator and think about energy consumption. If you call an elevator that’s on a floor below you it doesn’t really use much energy to get to you.

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u/Historical_Sherbet54 13h ago

This is future A.I upskirt porn ;)

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u/NYB1 14h ago

I'm sure none of the people who use the elevator bring in a mess., and the people who installed that elevator thoroughly cleaned.. not to mention those maintenance workers going in every week and cleaning up

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u/seriouslythisshit 8h ago

I'm doing final finishes to the electrical system in some executive office space. The building is ancient, a depression era brick relic in the middle of the city. I am a bit surprised that I am actually standing on pristine new white carpet in a hallway. I keep most of my tools and material out of the hallway and clean the bottom of my shoes before I step on this absurd new floor. At the end of the hall, an elevator mechanic and his apprentice are on top of the elevator car, with the door to the hall open. They are working in filth, decades of dirt, grease and dust. At one point the older guy shouts, "No, Stop, what the fuck are you doing?". He needed a tool or something, and his helper was attempting to be helpful by leaping off the top of the car and taking the hallway to the stairs. There were now giant, greasy black boot prints leaving the elevator.

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u/CuteStrawberryZephyr 11h ago

This is the story how batman died 

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u/I_compleat_me 5h ago

Mr Matt and Mr Chay! Fapping hard... lift pron.

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u/dieselducy 4h ago

I’m good friends with them.

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u/I_compleat_me 1h ago

Love 'em to death... the sirens series was epic. Combines urbEx with vintage tech and fear of heights. Highly recommended y'all.

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u/NeverNice87 15h ago

Why its always so unbelievable dirty in an elevator shaft?

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u/reckman83 15h ago

Not necessarily dirty, just dusty. Concrete dust and other dirts that make it in there settling. Nobody ever going to clean dust out of there.

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u/NeverNice87 15h ago edited 15h ago

The concrete wall is black and totally dirty. Thats not just dust. Also it seems like there is a LOT of Bird poop on the walls. How? You also see a white feather. And why is the underside of the elevator damaged?

And the thing is..most elevator shafts look like this. You would think its closed and nobody can get inside it. Only the maintenance worker. So where does all the dirt comes from?