Here’s a light hearted simple funny story:
So we were all struggling due to being sleep deprived. We had to be ready to fly out by 2 am Tuesday. Half of us decided to pull an all nighter and just sleep during our layovers throughout the day. I was pretty wired on pure excitement for the journey. Haven’t had coffee or caffeine in a few days either so I was shocked at my energy level. It lasted for several hours into the day until lugging around my 65 lbs of supplies around the airports.
I was ready to crash. Several of the squad had tapped out long ago (pictured above) and I felt it was my turn to join in on the spacious king size floor tiles that would become my bed. I woke up from my snooze cold and slightly confused as it was time to continue the journey. The remaining teams began down the escalator. A simple task that we had done several times throughout the day.
However, as I was approaching the bottom I noticed a quiet panic developing at the bottom of the escalator. Pure fear struck in my heart as I saw a team mate on the ground as a mountain up of girls and packs began to develop at the end of the escalator. So many thoughts rushed through my head. I had nowhere to go, but down. Down into the pile up. I could leap over the railing, but that would deam impossible with the backpacks I had to carry. It looked as though a teammate had fallen and was beginning to get sucked up through the floor; Caught by her foot that didn’t lift quick enough or sucked down by a loose backpack strap as she struggled to get free from the multiple front straps. Fear smothered my face. I turned around and began running up the escalator going nowhere as I yelled, “FIND THE EMERGENCY STOP BUTTON! ISN’T THERE A BUTTON?”
A few flustered moments later, the pile up began to reduce in size as each girl gathered herself and leaped across the fallen bags. Finally I was able to get off the escalator of death. Safely on to the glorious none moving floor.
Then laughter broke out among us all. Half of the group had gone on to security, oblivious to what we had escaped.
Apparently a man who was in between our group on the escalator had fallen and dropped his bags causing all of us to tumble onto each other. It was the scariest funny moment of my life.
I could fill in a life lesson for you here, but I think everyone can learn something different. I’ll leave the moral of the story up to you.
