Gallery of the Uncommon

Let’s get the hell out of here

During one of these cold days of January, INESC TEC’s hot subject was the fact that Mr. Manuel Silva, from the Management Information Systems Service (SGI), was trapped in the elevator with three cleaning ladies. It was the story of the moment. 

Apparently, the ladies were finishing their morning shift, already tired before 9am, and Mr. Silva was solving this and that, when the elevator simply stopped. And so it stayed for one very long hour.
This friendly group could have seized the opportunity to cath up, tell jokes, solve riddles, sing karaoke, whatever, even make up a story for a movie.
But no, legend says that the ladies reacted poorly to the fact of being trapped with Mr. Silva, and so they started to faint, at least two of them, and the other even had an epileptic attack, poor thing. Inside, fainting spells, crying and distress. Outside, peolpe who could save them just panicked. Can you imagine that?

And we could see Mr. Silva all stressed out, sweating and thinking: «I know I’m jack of all trades. But also a doctor? Well, well. Let me see if I can put this big box running again!»

But that’s the official version, because in fact, or in our imagination, who past out was Mr. Silva and the ladies were the ones that, in turns, exercised the palm of their hands (and, there’s a rumour going around that the back two… of their hands) to wake up the groggy faint victim. 

Rumour or imagination, one can see them now going up and down the stairs, just in case.