"Little Danger"

Got into an extensive discussion of this sign with my guest on the next TSOYA, Merrill Markoe. The elevator in my building was stuck between floors, but I knew not to become alarmed for the poor souls potentially trapped therein. "Don't worry," I thought to myself as we took the stairs. "If there is someone in there, there is 'little danger' of them running out of air or falling uncontrollably."

LITTLE DANGER? So this sign is telling the reader, someone who is trapped in an elevator, not to be alarmed, because while there certainly is some danger of me FALLING UNCONTROLLABLY, it is only a modest danger? The danger of asphyxiation is present, but not really worth getting my knickers in a twist over?

Jiminy Christmas.

PS: NO TELEPHONE IS FURNISHED.

PPS: Here is a sign that Merrill enjoyed.

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