Climbing the Space Needle

It was a difficult task, 525ft from the ground, the 7th tallest structure in Seattle, but I did it, I climbed to the top of the Space Needle. How you ask? Why? what the hell was I doing there in the first place? and did I get arrested? these are all good questions, I think the last question shouldn't raise a brow, but that's not important right now. I was working, tearing down Ice Sculptures when the service elevator shut down, leaving all my supplies trapped and me stuck in the basement, some lady with more clearance than me swiped her card to the stairway and told me it was 3 floors up, no problem. Of course the skycity floor was locked and the basement door then locked me in, I thought maybe I didn't go up high enough to reach the skycity floor. 80 flights of stairs later in the esophagus of the Space Needle, the wind blowing hard and my legs pumping battery acid I came to the top floor with a card reader key entrance. I tried my card and got a green light, but of course the alarms when off. one of the employees was standing there asking me what was going on, still out of breath I managed to explain. everyone was really nice about it, a waiter even brought me a glass of water. we all had a good laugh, but the embarrasing part was I had to take the regular elevator down with a full load of people watching me sweat and all i could think about was if the room was spinning (which it does) or if it was my head. turns out they moved all my crap out of the elevator and put it by my truck, they practically did my job for me while I ran around trying to figure out what was going on.