Willow ,'Empty Places'
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Does anyone know anyone who has been hurt by closing elevator doors? Should I not be throwing myself between them so willy nilly?
I worked at a place where a guy got his hand caught in the doors, the doors didn't open up and the elevator then moved and mangled his hand pretty bad. So when new employees tried to catch the elevator doors we all heard this story. (And indeed, the doors did not retreat readily on catching a hand. It took a hard shove to get them to back off.)
Because escalators are horrible awful machines that house a green monster.
I fell forward on an escalator once and cut my shins. Y'all probably already guessed that.
I also embarrassed my mother by turning one off when I was about 3. There were buttons. I pushed them.
I think I shall make sure, then, that I slap the lip of the elevator doors, or jam my whole arm in, for more safety.
I am one of the few people in the building that ever seems to try, though. Most people slow down when they see the doors closing, whereas I speed up and stick my foot in, or something. And then people look at me funny.
Make your protagonist want something. I need to reread Hitchhiker's. What did Arthur Dent want?
His house not be torn down, for one.
Did that last longer than a chapter?
Not in a practical it could happen sense, I guess. He mostly wanted terrible things to stop happening, I think. And maybe a cup of tea.
Also, he wanted what's-her-name.
I once got a truly spectacular bruise from an elevator door that slammed closed on me (it started closing as I was getting on the elevator and I put my arm up and, after hitting me really hard, it opened again).
Me too. I'm now just scared of that one elevator.
He spent a lot of time wanting a cup of tea.
Tommy, Fenchurch?
I think "To not die" was often his primary desire.
he wanted what's-her-name
How can you not remember Trillian's name?
It wasn't a very big motivator for him. And neither was wanting stuff to stop happening. I mean, he doesn't try to make stuff stop happening, does he? Once Earth gets destroyed (SPOILERS!) what does he try to achieve?