Do you loathe elevators?

To be honest, I don't think I cared much what they looked like. I was just glad one of my friends was on the elevator with me. I nearly suffocated him I was holding onto him so tightly.

@thislittlepennyearns It's not the enclosure that scares me, it's the fear of them stopping that does it. Though I'm not a fan of the smaller ones, that's more because I feel they aren't as stable and / or they are older.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I'm not claustrophobic most of the time so elevators don't usually bug me.

They are terrifying! Too many unknown variables.

@allknowing It is exactly things like that that I would worry about.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Me too!

@ScribbledAdNauseum I'm sure that each one of us something they fear and try to avoid.

@kepweng My apartment building has 12 floors and a basement.

I have, luckily, never lived anywhere that I had to use an elevator. I've worked places where I've had to, and of course stayed at hotels, or been to hospitals where it was a necessity. This fear of elevators is a trait that I get from my father. He also hated them. Where I will take them, but be nervous about it, he refuses to even step on one.

@ScribbledAdNauseum good that you were able to get word out

@arthurchappell Yes. Luckily it didn't get stuck on the basement level, which was just one level below us. You could never get any kind of signal there.

We were stuck in an elevator with a building that was not being occupied at the moment. It was the convention center that we sometimes held events in. I think we had been going there to get a particular set of cloth napkins that we needed. We were luckily able to get enough signal to call our team leader who called the fire department.

The jolt of the elevator starting gets to me.

@ScribbledAdNauseum I never tried stuck in an elevator.

@JustBhem I'm glad you were never stuck. It's a terrifying experience.

I've thought I was stuck in a staircase once before. I know you meant elevator, but you mentioning stairs reminded me of a time when I went down many flights to find that the door to go into a hallway was locked.

@Kandae11 I did. I was terrified that I'd return to the floor I had entered the stairwell on, only to find that it had been locked as well. Luckily, that wasn't the case.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Oops! I would have panicked.

Very lucky for him! I would have freaked out.

It isn't the claustrophobia that gets me, it's the fear of being stuck in. I"m okay as long as the elevator is moving, and gets to the destination quickly. If the elevator stops on several floors before hand, then I get aggravated and more distressed. I suppose claustrophobia does settle in when there are more people within, but then that's more because I'm still afraid it will get stuck.

@ScribbledAdNauseum It does not matter if I am alone or with plenty of people, when I am in a small closed space I panic and feel sick. I have always suffered of claustrophobia.

Lucky you. I had to cling to a friend at one time, after the elevator stopped and the doors would not budge. I was terrified.

Ah, yes I'm glad the security guard took it in stride. I'm sure he's probably come across people who have reacted in even stranger ways. I used to work for a hotel group as a banquet server. This was three different buildings, two of them being hotels. One of the hotels had an elevator encased in glass, and for that one I always closed my eyes.

@ScribbledAdNauseum It is horrible if you suffer from claustrophobia or fear of heights!

@garymarsh6 I only have a fear of heights if the window I am looking out of is floor to ceiling. If there is a space between the window and the bottom of the wall? Then I feel more secure.

Trust me, being stuck is no fun at all.

@ScribbledAdNauseum oh I know that, without having it been done. As I hate small spaces. and have bad anxiety .

It's the jolting start and the jolting landing that gets me, as well as the fear that it might stop.

I do not like escalators either. As a child, I believed that the escalators would catch my clothing and rip them from me, and that it might chomp at my skin as well. Growing up with siblings who only exacerbated things didn't help either.

@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, one has to remember to lift those feet and step off.

Being stuck in one is no fun at all. Especially if you must contend with the strangers inside with you. When I've been stuck, it's been with friends, but I'd hate to be around a stranger who might react worse than myself.

I will take the elevator if there are people with me, which in most cases, there are. I do recall a time many many years ago when I took the stairs. We were going to an appointment and the elevator was being worked on. There was a man there who said it was operational enough for us to take it. My grandmother, who was the one taking me to the appointment, tried to make me go in. I outright refused and we created quite the scene. My aunt, who was distressed, took the stairs with me. When I went into see my doctor? I was still distressed. My grandmother went in with me (though by this age I was old enough to go into my appointments alone, I think I was around 14). The doctor ended up blessing my granny out for distressing me, and she also ended up prescribing a nerve pill. Perhaps the nerve pill wasn't necessary, but then I don't recall all the details of that appointment either.

Yeah, I don't blame you.