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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Inked-Wolfie-1979 on 2025-10-07 16:53:01+00:00.

Recently I was helping out with a beading workshop and my friend who was leading it keeps all her beads in this gigantic plastic container. It’s one of those clear flat plastic ones with partitions inside, but huge. She had all the heavy beads and findings on one end of it, an all the smaller/lighter stuff on the other, so it was a bit tippy. I was helping her get her stuff back out of the building we were in and packed back up into her car after the workshop. She gave me a rolling tote full of stuff to take back up the elevator, and with my hands being full, I placed the giganto-container on top of the tote, and pressed the button to open the elevator doors. I entered and rolled the tote in behind me. As the tote bumped over the lip of the doors, the unbalanced weight of the container caused it to slide off the top of the tote. I watched as it fell in slow motion and proceeded to burst open and lose all its contents. Because I am very lucky, it broke right on top of the door seam. Who knows how many beads immediately rained down the elevator shaft never to be seen again. Most of the rest of them wedged themselves in the door track. You know how with some elevators, if the door is trying to close and is blocked by something, it’ll keep bumping back open again until the obstruction is gone? Yeah no this one just froze in place and a REALLY LOUD bell alarm sounded. A bunch of people came out of their apartments to see wtf was up as I vainly tried to pick beads out of the track. Some were so tiny and wedged so tight couldn’t get them out. So far this is the first time I’ve ever had to use the phone button on an elevator. A repair guy had to be called in, and worse yet, many of the people living in that building were disabled and needed that elevator to get anywhere.

TL;DR I accidentally disabled an elevator with thousands of beads