How's this for typical of my surreal life :

I just went on my morning tea break - went down the street to get some Chinese take-away...

coming back into work and decided to take the lift. Pressed the little "I want a lift please" button.

there are two lifts.

one opened and someone came out....But I was near the other one.. And it started closing before I got there...

then someone came out the other one.. So as I moved to that one it also started closing... So I stuck my foot in the door to keep it open..

now anyone who knows me will know about my big swear boots.

they are huge big chunky funky boots... That I hadn't really work for years, but since I got scooty they have made great motorcycle shoes.

so the doors closed around my foot.

I assumed it would hit my boot and then open up again...

cept it didn't.

it just locked shut around my foot. Which was in my boot which was now stuck into he elevator door.

I immediately got the giggles.

who wouldn't.... I mean you have takeaway in one hand and your swipe card into he other and now you have your foot stuck in an elevator door!!

so I put the stuff in my hands on the floor and tried to reach the button....

I reached it...But barely... The button was on my right side and my right foot was stuck in the door so I was a bit off balance.

but the bloody door wouldn't open

so I'm giggling and bouncing around with my foot stuck in the door...

after about a minute this guy walked near by... I called him over and asked if he could help me....

I was still giggling...And he just looked at me like I was INSANE!!!!!!!!!

he tried pressing the button.... But that didn't work.

he then tried to pries open the doors (which I had tried too) but they just wouldn't budge...

so he's like "we need to call the building manager..."

and I'm giggling because I'm verging on hysterical now...

so then this woman comes past...She decides to help too...

so the girl is pulling on one side of the door and the guy on the other side trying to pull it open so I can get my foot out

still no luck!

but I can now slide my foot out of my boot.

so now just my boot is stuck in the doors.

they try again to pull the doors apart while I pull the boot...

still no luck.

so then I try pushing the boot forward into the elevator..

it starts to go in.... And I can get it past the outer doors but my arm gets caught... And the two helpers are getting all concerned.... "Your arms!! Your arms"

so they are holding it open while I stick my arm in the now much smaller gap in the doors..

so finally I get the boot past the second inner doors and the boot in now in the elevator and the doors are closed and we are all standing out of the doors...

I'm still giggling...

cog its funny...

I'm a bit off kilter coz I only have one shoe on and its about 3 inches off the floor...

so the buttons are still not opening the door....

I say thanks to the others the man goes away, but the girl is waiting with me to see what happens...

so the lift goes up.. I'm still left standing there with one shoe on...Pressing the 'come here' button...

so it finally comes back down and I am re-united with my boot and can get back to work.

and that's the end of my story.