Dan Mooney
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It's good to know gravity still works!
When Uncle Sam sent us to Turkey we ended up on the ninth floor of a building with only a small 4 person elevator. I was amazed to see a small compact Turkish guy put our old Kenmore refrigerator on his back and hike up 9 flights of stairs like it was nothing...same for the large 5/8" thick glass topped dining room table, all the beds and anything else that wouldn't fit into the elevator. Not a scratch on anything moving in, but they chipped off one corner of the glass table top going down the stairs when we left. That was our only casualty. Pretty amazing.
The building manager wouldn't let them, Larry. Claimed they would scuff up his elevator. Those elevators were not to be trusted anyways. We had frequent power outages and people would get stranded for hours. In the apartment building next door we had friends on the 12th floor penthouse. One day after a visit I got in their elevator and started down. It went into free fall and took two floors for the emergency brake to catch on. I spent a lot of time using stairs after thatted that was one tuff turkey seems like the elavator would have held it if it held 4 people?
The building manager wouldn't let them, Larry. Claimed they would scuff up his elevator. Those elevators were not to be trusted anyways. We had frequent power outages and people would get stranded for hours. In the apartment building next door we had friends on the 12th floor penthouse. One day after a visit I got in their elevator and started down. It went into free fall and took two floors for the emergency brake to catch on. I spent a lot of time using stairs after that