Look what I found.

posted by Chuck Ayers
Empress Hotel
Victoria British Columbia.
Vancouver Island,
 
March 1973.  We all were coming down one of the hotel’s elevators and when we arrived at the main lobby, wife and I stepped out in to the lobby and ever so quickly the elevator door closed behind us.  However our 3-year-old daughter Monica was still in the elevator.  We watched with fright the indicator lights ding almost all the way to the top.  Then suddenly the elevator started to descend stopping at two or three floors above.  Then finally after a few long moments the elevator door spread open, a young couple stepped out who noticed our worried looks, then said, “are you missing something?”  They’re stood Monica seemingly having a good time riding up and down in the old historic hotel’s elevator and wondering what was all the fuss.  Possibly wishing she could do it again.  But we were scheduled to hop on a ferry boat sailing back to mainland America.  Bon voyage.