My apartment is right next to the elevators so I hear a lot of dinging as the elevator gets called to each floor. I have learned to ignore it. One day I was hearing a unusual amount of dinging along with the alarm bell that lets you know that it was being held 'against its will' on a floor. After a couple of hours I went outside to investigate. I found what was stopping the elevator from responding to other calls. It was a poor mouse that had gotten smushed in one of the door closing and was now stuck as the door opened and tried to close and opened and tried to close and so on. The width of its tiny smashed head was enough to trigger the ‘open door’ signal. I took a picture and showed it to our front desk person and he promptly came up and gallantly removed it. I could have done it – I have definitely picked up my share of gnawed and slobbery rats that my dog, Sadie, proudly presents to me but I figured I would use the ‘girlie’ excuse while I was in China.
