The Crushinator

Ok, yes, I am posting a ridiculous amount of blogs my first day. Don't expect this trend to continue. Jay Paradis is the only man with the fortitude, determination, and courage to throw down multiple posts every day unwaveringly.

So the reason for this post is that I just thought of something really funny last night that I probably shouldn't have laughed at. I was getting in the elevator in my building to go up to the 5th floor, and as the doors were closing they shorted out for a second and jumped back open. In the brief ensuing 10 seconds before they closed again a girl coming in the front door thought it would be a great idea to try and stop the elevator and jump on before the doors closed. So she sticks out her arm into the pathway of the closing door.

Only problem is: in her hand is a pizza box evidently containing her dinner. Mr. Elevator was most displeased with her lack of respect for his schedule and promptly smashed the box in the door. The most hilarious thing was that the door was moving incredibly slow and even after it hit the box and had it pinned between the frame and door itself, it kept closing and crushing the box/pizza all the way until the door closed.

So the girl lets out a cry of protest and one of the people on the elevator mashes the open button, but alas the pizza was lost. Meanwhile I am standing in the back of the elevator trying not to laugh- but much like the girl's hope of a tasty treat it was to no avail. Later I felt bad for laughing at her... but it was really really funny. And like the days of yore, this fable teaches us not to stick our dinner in the path of a closing elevator door.