In one week we had 3 reports of people dropping their keys down the little gap between the floor and the elevator when the elevator doors are open.  Next time you’re in an elevator look down and take a look at that gap.  It’s just a few inches wide yet 3 different people dropped their keys down that little gap.  It was a new record.

To retrieve the dropped keys we’d have to call out the elevator service technician.  He’d have to shut down the elevator, then go down into bottom of the shaft and fish out the dropped keys with a grabbing tool on the end of a pole.  It was just a slow dirty expensive hassle.  I was amazed that so many people could manage such a clumsy thing.

After we had wrapped up the third fishing expedition of that week I was standing by the elevator complaining to a friend about the knuckleheads who drop shit down that little gap…and then I dropped my keys down the gap.

I was the 4th elevator fishing trip of the week.  It was a brand new record.