Showing posts with label tall building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tall building. Show all posts

Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Sick Note

I started out at home office, and Kim (my step-mom) was working there.  She came to me and asked me to deliver a sick note to her supervisor, Deborah (transportation supervisor in home office), so I took it and tried to do so.

I wound up wandering through most of home office before I went up several stories and went into the "outer office" where the secretary sits for Ernst (President).   Here is the layout:



The door at the top of the outer office leads to a bathroom and the door/hall on the right side of Alan's office leads to various business offices.  Ernst's secretary was situated between the hall door and the door to Ernst's office on the same wall, facing the back wall.
I had turned to go towards Ernst's office at first, but I realized I shouldn't be walking in there unannounced, so I turned and went back past Alan's office to go to the business offices.  I was just getting ready to go into that hallway when I saw Kim again.  She asked me to keep trying to get the sick note to Deborah and then left.  I went into the hallway for the business offices and found Deborah coming out of one of the offices on the left and gave her the note.  I then turned to leave the way I came in.

Once I got back out to the outer office, I went to the back wall and went into the bathroom.  The door that was there went directly into a toilet stall of a larger bathroom.  The toilet was on the wall opposite of the door, and there was a "regular" stall door to my right.  Beyond that was the rest of the bathroom.  It was a general public bathroom just like any other except for the extra door that went out behind me.  I closed the door behind me and proceeded to use the bathroom.

When I was nearly done, I heard someone come in through the other door to the bathroom.  I could see a little over the top of the stall door to my right, and there were two guys in gray suits that came in.  They were laughing and joking around and I saw one heading towards the stall I was in.  I looked down and realized that the door was not locked, so I quickly locked it.

The guy stopped in his tracks and glared up at me.  He had fair skin, dark eyes and short dark hair.  He was furious that I was in there and started yelling at me for being in there.  I didn't really care much so I finished up using the bathroom and got ready to leave when he started beating on the door.

He took several steps back and then took off running at the door.  He hit it full force and the whole stall shook.  He backed up and did it again.  I knew that when he hit it this time everything was going to start collapsing, so I hurried and started backing out the door behind me back into the outer office area.  Just as I did, the stall started to collapse around me, and actually the way the stall door came crashing in from him hitting in kind of squished me out of the stall and out into the outer office.

I started running from them and they were chasing me.  As I ran through the outer office area again and over towards Ernst's office, I saw Paul (father-in-law) there.  I chatted with him for a few moments, kind of giving him the breakdown of what was going on, and he said something along the lines of how he could probably help take care of my problem with the two guys that were chasing me.  I think I declined because I wanted to try to solve it myself first, so I thanked him and kept running.

I went back through all the office areas, such as through the business office area and wherever I had first met up with Kim, and I wound back up with in the outer office area.  Once I was there, I ran back into the bathroom.  I didn't see the guys around and I thought I was safe in there.  They came through the other door again and the whole thing of smashing against the stall door happened again, ending with me going back out again the way I came in.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Elevator Drop

I was on the ground floor of a very tall building. It was a skyscraper type of building of metal and glass, and it was about 75 stories tall. I got into an elevator with a group of people and went to the top floor. There was some stuff that happened and I wound back up at the ground floor, but I don't remember what any of that stuff was.

I wound up getting into the elevator again. I was with Em and about five other people. There was a small child, a woman in her mid to late thirties, an elderly woman, and a man of no real description. I don't know anything about the last person/people.

We were heading to the top floor again, and the elevator was moving upwards very quickly. Somewhere around two thirds of the way up (around the 50th floor) the brakes on the elevator kicked in and we screeched to a sudden halt. I knew that something was wrong before we even stopped. There was also a bit of a grinding/groaning sound as the elevator lurched.

I was facing towards the back of the elevator, and Em was somewhere behind me. I looked at the woman that was in her mid/late thirties. Her hair was a dirty blond color and fairly straight, and she had it held back with a plastic head band. She gave me this strange look that was a cross between rolling her eyes like this sort of thing always happened and a look of, "we're screwed because now we're going to fall to our deaths."

Just after looking at her, the elevator plummeted. It seemed to do so unnaturally fast, almost as if the same effort that the elevator uses to pull us to the top was now used to rocket us downward. I knew this was it and that we were all going to die.

I woke up with only a second or two until impact.