This was a first. My wife and I were visiting our youth pastor in the hospital who had just had her baby. On the way up, the elevator got stuck.

The college I went to had the oldest elevators on the planet, I’m sure. But I never got stuck on those old beasts.

It was an incredibly odd feeling. First it was, “Well, the door should open…right…about…now.”

Then, it was, “Wow. I guess we’re really stuck.”

I wish I had more of a story. Maybe an epiphany of some sort. But I used the emergency phone (which I have always wanted to do), maintenance came and got the elevator back to the first floor, where we got out. No long waits. Didn’t have to go to the bathroom. We didn’t even have to crawl out of a small opening.

It took all of five minutes, I’m sure. Not nearly enough time for any new revelations in my life. Bummer.