Slightly Traumatized

Last week, the "robot" room (where I do ALL of my work) flooded. Luckily, nothing was damaged... except the door that the maintenance guys kicked in.

They fixed the door and everything seemed back to normal, so a co-worker and I went in to set up some samples. Half way through the set up, I asked him to go get something and he couldn't get out. The maintenance guys had broken the mechanism on the inside of the door that unlocks it.

My co-worker called the few number he had of people and then he looked up my boss's phone number. She came to our rescue and taped the lock open.

While all of this was going on, I continued to calmly finish setting up my samples.

However, I wasn't sooo calm... I felt very claustrophobic. Even though I have been in that room a thousand times, it made me really anxious to know that we couldn't get out. I was laughing very hard, but at the same time I was a little shaky and my heart was pounding. Even though, I knew everything would be ok, it was just a weird feeling.

I have always wondered what it would be like to be trapped in an elevator or some small place and after today's experience, I don't want to.

On a happier note, my suitcase came yesterday morning!!