For the past week they have been working on the elevators at my office. This morning while waiting for the working car, I decided to ask the repairman a question. Thinking I would get an answer about how safe or unsafe he felt they were, I asked "Do you ride them?"

His answer was certainly not what I expected. "Yes, we ride on top of them."

As I pictured an action thriller featuring a middle aged elevator repairman, my car came. I got in and wondered all the way up if I would have been safer on the roof.