While locked inside her hotel bathroom for more than 30 minutes late this morning, ESPN broadcaster Jenn Brown did what any social media savvy gal would do: Tweet at her followers.
“Who closes the bathroom door in a hotel!” tweeted Adam Schwarz (@schwarzadam).
“Any one who wants to stay warm whilst taking a shower…Duh,” Brown responded.
According to Brown, at about 10:30 a.m. today she got locked in her hotel bathroom after the inside handle got stuck. Luckily she had her cell phone on her—to listen to ESPN Radio, she explained—and was able to call the front desk for help. In less than an hour, the hotel staff freed the broadcaster.
“They got into my room w/out breaking the door in (no clue how they did that)…then..just as if it worked the whole time, they lift the handle & door opens easily,” Brown tweeted. “I now feel like a dummy but he says it broke from the inside and will replace it for me.”
Brown’s isn’t the only TV personality to use Twitter while in a jam. In February 2010, NBC’s Ann Curry got stuck in a New York Times building elevator after attending a social media seminar.
“Recommend getting stuck in an elevator for an hour w/this smart and funny group,” Curry tweeted, according to the New York Daily News.
Twitter was also the distraction of choice for comedian Stephen Fry when he got stuck in an English elevator in 2009.
“Ok. This is now mad. I am stuck in a lift on the 26th floor of Centre Point. Hell’s teeth. We could be here for hours. Arse, poo and widdle,” he tweeted, according to The Telegraph.
From the looks of it, the cell phone has eclipsed the pocket knife as the most valuable, potentially lifesaving, tool a person can carry. So long as there’s reception.
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