The Business Week staff had walked down forty-three stories. Recently, there had been a small fire in the building, rendering the elevators unusable. As the emergency bell rang and rang, he began to fear that it might somehow-electricity? friction? heat?-start a fire.
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He still had three, plus two Rolaids, which he worried might dehydrate him, so he left them alone. Nor did he want to be caught smoking, should the doors suddenly open, so he didn’t touch his cigarettes. He did not want to be scolded for endangering himself or harming company property. He hoped, once someone came to get him, to appear calm and collected.
He occupied himself with thoughts of remaining calm and decided that he’d better not do anything drastic, because, whatever the malfunction, he thought it unwise to jostle the car, and because he wanted to be (as he thought, chuckling to himself) a model trapped employee.
Some time passed, although he was not sure how much, because he had no watch or cell phone. Still, he rang it a few more times and eventually pulled the button out, so that the alarm was continuous. After a time, he pressed the emergency button, setting off an alarm bell, mounted on the roof of the elevator car, but he could tell that its range was limited. He hit it again, and then began pacing around the elevator. He pressed the intercom button, but there was no response. The control panel made a beep, and White waited a moment, expecting a voice to offer information or instructions. The lights went out and immediately flashed on again. It was an express elevator, with no stops below the thirty-ninth floor, and the building was deserted. When White finished his cigarette, he returned to the lobby and, waved along by a janitor buffing the terrazzo floors, got into Car No. The magazine’s offices were on the forty-third floor of the McGraw-Hill Building, an unadorned tower added to Rockefeller Center in 1972. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. With its Safe Driving Discount you save money for your good driving, and Goldie makes it home safe and sound so you, too, regret nothing.The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999.
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