Elevator

    This morning I went to walk the dogs.  We live on the 8th floor, so this includes going down and back up the elevator.  When the doors opened, there was only one guy in the elevator so the dogs and I went in.  If there is a crowd or small children we will usually wait since the dogs like to jump up and lick small kids.  When the elevator door shut, the elevator suddenly fell from the 8th floor to the 7th floor and then the door opened slightly.  Me and the guy in the elevator just looked at each other with wide eyes.  Then we both jumped off the elevator and decided to take the stairs.  When we got to the first floor, I tried to explain to the guard, (in Chinese) that the elevator on the left was broken and that he needed to have it fixed.  He looked at me kind of puzzled and said "ok ok ok".  Then, I proceeded to walk the dogs. When I got back up to the apartment (took the other elevator), there was a note on the door.  It was in Chinese so I needed the guard to translate it for me, which meant another trip down.  Well, the elevator that came was the one that had the problem the first time.  Since the guard did not turn it off, I figured maybe they had reset it and everything was okay.  It wasn't, as soon as the door shut, it fell again from 8 to 7.  I immediately jumped of fthe elevator and took the stairs down to the guard.  This time, I'm yelling at him and trying to explain in my broken Chinese that the elevator needs to be repaired.  He is what he would have heard:

"I told you that machine" (pointing to the elevator because I don't know the word for elevator) "is broken".  "It should be fixed".  "From the 8th floor to the 7th floor" (make the motion of a hand falling because I don't know the word for falling".  "Can you please call to get it fixed". 

Then he called someone and I heard him say "The elevator (I recognized the word when I heard it) in building 3 is broken".  Then he pulled out a "slippery when wet" yellow triangle and set it in front of the elevator.  I then asked him "Can you turn it off?"  He rolled his eyes at me like he didn't believe what I was telling him, then he got in the elevator himself, as to prove to me it's not broken.  I told him "From 8 to 7" as the doors were shutting.  I figured he could figure it out on his own.  That was it, I took the other elevator and decided it was blog worthy...

-JASON