Yes. That's why I wear a jetpack wherever I go. Just in case.

Sometimes people make fun of me for my phobia and jetpack.
So I light a fire in the staircase, then stand in front of the elevators.
When the alarm sounds and people come running out I point at the sign that says "in case of fire use stairs do not use elevator."
Then I say "bet you wish you had a jetpack now, btch!" then jump out the window and fly to safety.

I missed. hearing about that !

What !!

The only fear I have is when I crack a rat and I'm the only one in the elevator, then someone gets in and notices. Now I have to pretend like that smell was there before me and I don't know what happened. Then I get off and it follows me.

Sorry, but farts are funny. I remember the first time Li ever spent the night. Here is this beautiful, graceful delicate dancer nearly burning a hole in the sheets forcing me to vacate the room for a few and get the air spray. We laughed for ten minutes.

You caught me with my mouth open

I used to do that too, and yes, good exercise for sure. But 94 floors? No freaking way, and I doubt anyone would take the stairs to go up 94 floors. Even going down stairs for 94 floors is a pain up the rear end.

So the brake WAS working?? Then how did it drop from 84 to ground level??
When I read it I was thinking about the brakes too. It shouldn't be possible, and I'd expect esp in cities where buildings are that tall -and worse maybe- for lifts to be super duper safe, triple brake sets or something, haha.
I mean, some skyscrapers are insanely high! Do they take extra measures there?

In a way I am fine with elevators, but when it's a tall building I get a wee bit awkward. It depends on how stable the lift is, sometimes you feel these things go back and forth a tad. I do NOT like that, and would hate that if the building was very tall.
We don't have many really tall buildings over here, the tallest Dutch building has 44 floors.

The Hancock Building will sway 6 to 12 inches, which isn't bad. 432 Park Avenue, in NYC, sways 4-5 feet. It might be entertaining to have some ornament hanging from the ceiling, just to scare any guests that might visit you in that 90 Mil apartment. But your apartment just might be off limits to your friends that get motion sick. (Welcome! Dramamine? I have barf bags within reach) With that much swing in a building, I'd guess that some breakables wouldn't survive in that building.

What I wonder, is that sway in one direction? If it is, then your return trip back to center, (And the building momentum.) would make it come back past center, to make the swing a total of 8+ feet. (Like a pendulum)

Uuuh, pass.

@ Redrider
You sure know your elevators.

My friend once lived in a secure bldg. On the 28 floor , that was high enough for me. I don't like heights. It over looked Lake Michigan in Chicago, so the scenery was Very nice .

They called the Hancock people to tell them what just happened and they were trapped and whoever they talked to didn't want to deal with it so they called 911.

Only in Chicago my kind of town.

I was thinking about that as well, the sway of tall buildings. I think even 4-5 feet isn't all that bad, if memory serves many buildings sway 3-5 meters? But maybe that is that full thing you mention, indeed depends what they measure.
I think I'd feel it. My head and balance (inner ear) are VERY sensitive, mostly due to my neck/head injury, whiplash does that to you.
I see flickering of lights and monitors as well that other people cannot see whereas it drives me up the wall.
I don't think I could live in a building that moves like that. I cannot even sit on a chair with a bit of a bounce in it. You know, the type that doesn't have 4 legs but this frame that has the '@$$' just hang in the air. Hate them! Makes me dizzy as bleep haha. Whiplash, twice... oh joy!

I wouldn't feel safe in such a building either... the thought of there being a fire and not being able to get out, sod that!
Plus too many people all the way round, noise, too many energies, totally exhausting!

When the 'net came out, I started exploring elevators. You see, my grandfather was killed when my dad was three years old, working for Otis Elevator. A hoist motor chain broke, and sent the hoist down 20 floors, and hit him. I'm pretty sure he never knew what hit him. The Otis Co. gave my grandmother a pension of $45 dollars a month. She collected on that- for 72 years.

Anyway, before they got married, as the story I was told, he disappeared for about 2 years. Supposedly he went gold mining during that time, out west. Not true. On a vacation out west, I stopped at Royal Gorge Bridge. Waiting for a elevator ride to the bottom, they had a brass plaque commemorating the men that built the elevator. Among the names, was my grandads. He never said a word about it to my grandmother. Not a wonder. Those men working off ropes, were a thousand feet off the Arkansas River. When I got back, I floored everyone, including my grandmother, about what I found out.

Surfing the 'net for info about that, I got nosy about elevators just in general.

@Redrider

That was a sad story about your grandfather! Sorry!

Very interesting as to why you started researching elevators.

Thanks for sharing Your story!