I had a medical professional’s appointment yesterday that ended up having to be rescheduled.
It wasn’t because I was too tied up that morning, though.
In fact, I arrived at the building half an hour before my appointment. My medical professional’s office was located on the 7th floor so I got into the elevator to head up to sign myself in early. Everything was going wonderful until the elevator broke down between floors 3 and 4. I was the only one in the elevator and I panicked when it suddenly jerked to a stop, important all of the buttons to try to get something to work. Nothing worked except for the emergency phone installed next to the button display, through which I was alerted that help was on the way. I eventually calmed down but wasn’t able to stop the sweat that was beginning to drip down my body. The air conditioning system in the elevator had stopped, and separate from the air conditioning system the elevator suddenly began to heat up. The lack of AC turned the enclosed space into a sweltering sauna. I was going to miss my appointment but that wasn’t a sizable complication at the time. The temperature outside that morning was in the high 79s, and the building’s lobby had been cooled down nicely from the building’s Heating, Ventilation and A/C system, but in the elevator separate from access to this cooling I couldn’t help but obsess over how tepid it was, making me all the more aware of the lack of AC and heat. I was so relieved to finally get out of there that I wasn’t even aggravated about having to reschedule my appointment.