I Got Trapped on a Balcony
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- In a way I'm okay this happened...
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Rumor has it Trent was on that balcony for nearly 7 minutes 😰
Not sure if that would make the story better or worse 🤔
I hope he's getting the support he needs to recover from this horrifying trauma.
I don't know if this is real, but the fact that there may be some arguing about the extension of time in the balcony makes the story better 😂
Exactly enough phone-free time for an existential crisis.
He timed that video to a tee. Thank goodness his bladder is healthy.
This is why I always carry two plungers with me everywhere I go, just in case I need to scale up or down a building. Glad you’re safe Trent!
IRL Suction Cup Man
This is why I ALWAYS keep a phone roster and emergency contacts in a laminated binder and waterproof container on my balconies. Updated and inspected once a week too.
I always carry around a 4x8 sheet of tempered glass in case I need to break into a building but don’t want to pay several hundred dollars to replace the door and/or window later
Plus it saves the embarrassment of asking your date for one when you go over the first time and realize you clogged the toilet with a baby arm sized crap, not even with the paper just literally the log trying to cram itself through a too small of a space. Anyway it prevents that hypothetical scenario, never happened to me as far as I know nope
Mac?
In my mind, Armando has a nice ride. Practical, yet not boring. Sporty, but not ostentatious.
a recent model honda civic hatchback
An Acura, those are reliable
This was very detailed, thank you. This will make it easier for Peter Jackson to be faithful to the source material.
Thanks to you, I got trapped in a lovely time.
The real trap is the balconies we met along the way.
The fact that you were able to talk to and meet your neighbor is insane in Los Angeles.
It wasn't about getting off the balcony, it was about the friends you made along the way.
You know what this means Trent?? Everything you and Joel write COMES TRUE!!
Even a bathroom plant. 🪴
Quick Trent write your wildest dreams!
Oh no! Joel must avoid petco at all costs
Joel needs to avoid anti-personnel mines
Get Adam Sandler on this immediately
The map was key in showing just how far away Trent's salvation was
This is a really good video for balcony awareness, Trent. I'll be sure now to be careful if I'm ever on a balcony.
I think our next step is to find the patent holder of that door handle and yell at them
Trent getting his neighbor to call his mom is the most wholesome thing ever. I wish i could be more like Trent
How many phone numbers do you know off the top of your head? I would have done the same ha
Hahaha "My son's trapped on a balcony help my son!" I've been in similar situations trying all options. It's always the Mom Option that is the funniest to look back on. :) I enjoy your stories.
Honestly, I'd totally freak out. On a balcony in the heat without water is scary. I probably would've tried to climb down. Props to Armando, and I hope your landlord gets that door fixed ASAP.
Depending on how old the building is and crappy the balcony door throwing my shoulder into it would have been my first bet.
Feel like that’s easier then climbing down or trying to break glass but maybe that’s just me watching too much Hollywood
lmao some of yall need to learn to chill, it's not that big of a deal
“sitting outside is scawy!!!” just shut up dude
@@obscure.reference ..no one bound to the merciless heat of the summer sun without water for hours would say such a thing
@@stankmank its god’s way of saying go the fuck outside
Can’t believe you would go as far as to get “Trapped” on a “Balcony”. Truly one of the unforgivable “videos” of all time.
"Thank" you for this comment it really "made" my "day"
Probably should've just jumped and had Armando catch you
Here's my story: I was section hiking with a friend of mine and we got separated and I got for a good 6 hours lost of trail and I freaked for a bit of it before I realised I could go north and cross a road. Come to find our, my friend was worried and waited for me for 2 hours. It was nearly 9pm at that time and we just set up camp on the side of the trail so thrilled we found each other. I'll never forget feeling so lost that I had to just go into a zone to make it to some kind of civilization. Life long friend
The fact that you're back out on a balcony so soon is a testament to your strength Trent.
This one time I spent about a year by myself and went crazy as a result.
After a while I realized that the social nature of humans means that a conversation must happen one way or another.
Anyways I went full blown Terry Davis and never looked back.
I got stuck outside my apartment at like 2 in the morning one day without keys or my phone. I stalked around cursing myself until I made a little prayer to God. I'm not religious, but Catholic school, yknow. I figured it was worth a shot. Moments later, a neighbour stepped out the front door and I begged them to let me back inside. They were like "yeah, no prob dude" and left the door open for me. When I passed them, I asked their name, and they said it was Mohammad. Which was pretty spooky for me at the time. Now, I'm not trying to imply anything about the Judeo-Christian God, nor the prophet Mohammad, but I like to think that the universe has a sense of humour.
Great story. I find it funny how people instinctively want to pray even if they don't believe in religion
im really glad you clarified that you aren’t trying to imply anything about God when referencing an instance where God literally helped you, thanks
@@obscure.reference Wanted to leave room for random coincidence. We are but motes of dust floating in the abyss.
"It's just me and my thoughts."
*immediately panics*
i'm just glad mr trent is okay
This story was legitimately thought provoking. Thanks Trent
I'm curious why a door to the balcony has a lock like that. The one to my balcony can't be engaged if the door opens. And if you engage it with the door open, it won't close fully. The new lock on my front door doesn't allow the door knob to be turned at all while locked, if I want to open the door, I have to unlock the door and then use the key to lock it again once I'm outside for similar reasons.
i remember getting locked out of my apartment at night after work and nobody was home, didn't have a car, and my phone was dead so i was just pacing around wondering if i should just take the L and sleep in the cold or find some other option. then i remember my room window still being unlocked so i jumped in there and fell making a huge mess knocking over shit but i was so relived lmao
Nothing like this has ever happened to me, but if it ever does, now I know that I just need to get Armando to call your mom for me, I'm sure he saved the number, and everything will be fine.
That's one of those unfair situations where the cause is so disparate from the consequences. I feel for ya.
I'm pretty sure a stressed-out Trent is still more relaxed than 99% of us even if we're sleeping.
Thanks for the walkthrough, good info. Gonna log this event in the books for future generations, you beautiful man
It's even better story than the one about cool rock you once found
I have a similar story, it was also a very memorable and interesting experience for me.
A few years ago, I was about 15/16 at that time I was on a skiing camp Italy, we were picking up the poles after slalom practice and one of them slided of the side of the track, I decided to go and get it as it didnt seem that far away. After reaching out to grab it the snow collaplsed under me and i slid down around 20 meters down. It was not a dangerous fall and climbing back up didnt seem that difficult, so i told my group i would catch up to them in a few minutes. (oh how wrong I was). After about an hours of fruitlessly trying to get back up i have devised a new method in which i was slowlu building a snow staircase that could lead me back up on the track. It took a lot of time but at least i was finally making progress, after about 3 more hours i was back on the track. Tired as hell with no way to contact anyone. I decided to slowly start going down. But all the tracks were closed out after a whole day, waiting for the maintenance team to prepare the snow for next day.
It was getting dark, but that was a good thing because i knew that the maintenance crew would be here soon and they would find me, once they turned on the skil lift to get to the snow groomers i saw my friends dad riding the lift up, he must have realized i got left behind and decided to search for me.
He eventually managed to get to me, took me on his back and helped me get down.
This whole time i had so many thoughts going thrugh my head, on one had i wasnt scared because i knew if i push thrugh ill make it out. BOn the other hand i kept thinking about the things that were out of my control and could have made me stuck there for much longer than a few hours.
Learning first hand how it is to get stuck somewhere alone and with almost no way to contact anyone is truely something to experience.
R.I.P Trent, gone but not forgotten.
"It got worse" 💀
I travelled with my folks in New Zealand. Dad was there for work. I joined them for a break from uni.
We'd stayed in a bunch of hotels and one night, 10 days in, something funny happened.
Late that night, in my need to pee, my body took me to the bathroom. Now, I sleep a'la-naturale, and as I came awake as the door closed behind me, Gaia be damned,
I found I was in the hotel corridor. Starkers. Butt naked. And Busting!
Now I knocked, but at 2am my folks were fast asleep. No answer. I tried the front desk, unattended. In a hokey Kiwi hotel, there wasn't even a toilet for guests. I was running around naked looking for a place to pee.
I finally found relief behind the first and only door to a "room" that could be found.
And I got a towel to boot & hide my booty.
Finally my folks opened the door and we left first thing. THANKFULLY.
Because I didn't have to explain why the First Floor Linen Closet was drenched with pee!
"it got worse" made me laugh lol
I can’t wait for the sequel where the same thing happens but you’re naked
Ya know Trent, your art affects a lot of people in a lot of different ways. For me, it ventures into absurdism and I fucking love it.
"it could always be worse" to "it got worse" I love it
As the video reached the end, I was secretly hoping you'd stand up and turn to face the door. Try the lock, only to realize you had locked yourself out again.
Great video anyhow!
Lesson learned: always have a spare beer next to your balcony bush.
Thank goodness for Armando.
Everybody needs an Armando in their life.
Thanks Trent. You make the mundane into something relatable and interesting for all of us.
I wouldnt mind being stuck some place. I'd like to be alone without responsibilities for awhile... You're so sweet though Trent!
Had a kind of similar experience when I was locked out of my flat in Germany and met my neighbour for a cup of tea. Turned out my flatmate was in but asleep!
Another time I took the wrong key out with me and only realised when I got back. I seriously resigned myself to sleeping in the outdoor porch for the night but on the final try of the doorbell my flatmate answered. Puts things into perspective for sure
I had a similar thing happen to me but the people that I asked for help thought I was a burglar or something. It wasn't my house but the owner wasn't home, however I knew the front door was unlocked. So I told them, "Just go in the front door and open this door from the inside." They refused, which made me pretty frustrated. I was continually trying to call the owner who wouldn't pick up his phone. In the end, they came to their senses and let me out. It was strange still feeling mad at them even after they saved me but I guess I lived to tell the tale.
Next time this happens, remember that there's a key under the plant, Trent!
Bruh, I'd be so excited to find an escape plan, I'd be unraveling that wicker chair and the pillow and making cord out of it, comparing which was less likely to break.
I definitely agree that alone time can be very contemplative.
As for getting stuck, many years ago I got stuck on a huge boulder that I tried to climb. I think the place was in Saguaro National Park in southern Arizona. Park rangers or similar people came and saved me eventually.
My son told me a story a while back about when he was in kindergarten. He left his coat outside at recess but didn't remember until he was already in line to go back inside. He and a friend went back to the playground to find it and when they got back the door to the gym was locked. They tried other doors but they wouldn't open either. They couldn't walk to the front of the school because there was a chainlink fence they would have had to scale. He confessed to me that he and his friend tried to start a fire because his friend saw it on a survival show. They were 5 so had no idea how to go about it. The teacher noticed they were missing and went outside and found them out there gathering woodchips from the playground for the fire. It's funny to me how thier brains immediately went into survival mode. I'm glad you're still with us, Trent.
Thank you for sharing your harrowing experience. Im glad you're well Trent. Stay hydrated.
That plant ain't real 💀
It's real to me
when i was a little tiny boy, i came home from school and realized i forgot my keys and my mom wasn't home.
i sat on the front doorstep for nearly an hour. And while waiting had a huge urge to poop. I tried to keep it in for as long as possible, but eventually i had to do something, so i looked in my garden and saw a hole (for my moms potted plants) and after running around and contemplating my options and triple-checking no one could see me from over the hedge or fence i finally did my business in the plant hole. And went back to waiting on the front-step.
Eventually my neighbor walked back and asked why i was sitting there. And when i said why, she found a spare key to our house and let me in. My mom never mentioned the poop in the garden hole, so i don't know if she ever saw it or not.
Wonder if we'll see a sequel where Trent just dies on the balcony.
I've been feeling stuck in this part of life for quite some time now and it's been leaving me a bit dejected. This video means a lot, and it's given me hope not to lose hope and to, well, trust in others too. We'll all get out of our own balconies one way or another :)
that's a very nice neighbor.
"It Got Worse" hahahaha
This is the video I needed today.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing this, I am so glad it worked out and you weren't stuck too long.
Last year my dog followed us out onto our patio when we were checking on something and we went immediately back inside but didn't realize she was still out there (she's small, 7 pounds) and we live at an apartment complex next to a busy street. About 30 minutes later it was time to take her to her grooming appointment and I couldn't find her. Finally I decided to just peak outside our backdoor and saw she was just laying down, watching the cars and waiting by the door. I was so panicked but grateful she was smart enough to just wait by the door for us.
Another dog story, our neighbor's german shepherd got out in the early morning on a very snowy day, the dog was smart enough to keep going to their door but I was not 100% it was their home or not so I didn't want to just open the door and let it back inside. I kept knocking and knocking but no luck so I brought him into our apartment nearby and waited. It was too early to get ahold of the apartment office for help yet too. Luckily the neighbor shouted the dog's name in panic about 30 minutes later and the dog barked so we were able to reunite them. The owner's 2 year old was tall enough now to open the front door and they forgot to lock it.
So knock on wood to anyone who is either trapped or their dog ever gets out too, it can be pretty scary!
Your videos are so genuine, keep being you and tell us more stories!!!
the lack of closure of seeing you go back into the house or confirming that someone was home this time was a great directorial choice.
Glad youre okay! Sending prayers for healing 🙏 ❤️
I once got locked in a bathroom for an hour while touring a house i wanted to rent.
the It Got Worse poster made me laugh very hard
Trent! Thanks for making a video about this very specific situation. I actually got stuck on my balcony once too and I ended up breaking through my window screen to get back in. Thankfully, the window was open so it was not too crazy of a repair job. It was kinda terrifying, but also such a silly experience in hindsight.
This would totally freak me out, glad you're okay!
This reminds me of when my mom got trapped in the bathroom without a phone and resigned herself to 10 hours of waiting in a bathroom. With nothing to read. Fun times.
Note to self: Always bring a book to the bathroom.
@@travisreid9530 Yeah that's definitely the takeaway, not bringing a phone or anything else! Oh and don't forget some snacks like healthy toilet Apples to have when you read your book! :D
@@MyAmazingUsername Ah, yes, toilet apples that you keep in the cistern! Bob for apples when you get bored!
@@travisreid9530 Oh you could bring ants and a knife too! Then use the knife to cut off some wood from the bathroom furniture and use the wood to make little boats for the ants. Place the ants on the boats in the toilet and see which boat wins the race!
Thank you for all the visual aids in the video Trent, it really helped immerse me in the harrowing tale you wove.
I saw this and immediately thought "Oh no! Not again!" and imagined you were livestreaming from the balcony or something 😂
Ahh, Trent. This is relateable. I got locked on a balcony in spain, while visiting a girl who was at college for the day. It was a balcony with railings that hit the cieling so you couldnt even contemplate climbing down. Literally felt like i was in a prison. I was stuck probably for 4 hours? It was raining too. With no where to sit. I couldnt even shout out for help because i couldnt speak spanish. Needless to say, she doesnt talk to me anymore. Hahah!
I bet it was a beautiful time though!! Lots of time to think. And with the rain… ❤
Thank YOU for posting
I've not been trapped anywhere, since a child, but i recently watched yours and Joels movie.
A few weeks later, I was in a cavernous hotel near London Heathrow, having some drinks and a meal in the bar. The first time I used the facilities, I shut the door, which for a UK toilet door, is rare, in that it was heavy and ran the whole way from the top to the bottom, I thought - what would I do if I got stuck here? I gave it no second thought, opened the door and went back to the bar.
Worth noting, this was a huge hotel, and the toilets were downstairs from the bar in what I could only tell was an old reception area, rarely frequented by other guests.
One pint later, I needed the bathroom again. I went into another cubicle this time - as I thought another person was in my previously chosen cubicle (it was just closed, no one was there, but I dont want to push the door and scare somebody). This time, just after relieving myself, i went to open the door and to my horror... it was jammed.
After a minute of futile attempts trying to open it, I called my gf, who luckily for me, had come down to the cavernous toilets, to use them too. She was able to use the outer door groove with a coin to free me from my prison.
That's not happened to me since I was a child, but in that moment, the world changes. Just like it did for you.
I now keep an old phone, charged up in the only room in my house that only has a skylight, (the bathroom) just in case i need to call in help!
He got trapped on a balcony
I had a situation on where I got stuck on an island with my dad, my 2 uncles and my 2 cousins. My grandpa owned a boat and we were going to a little island that was a bit far from mainland. We were a party of 14 and the boat had to make several trips because it was a smaller boat. We were on the first trip it was about 20 minutes to the island. Everything was normal, we got there and my grandpa went back to the mainland to get all the others. We expected them to be there 40 to 50 min since it was 20 min each way. But then one hour passes, we thought to ourselves "Okay thats fine maybe they just took a while to get into the boat". Then 1hr and a half, "Okay this is kinda weird lets call to see if everything is okay". Keep in mind this is just all me and my cousins worrying because my dad and uncles were busy drinking and getting drunk not worrying about a thing. When we are going to call we see, EXACTLY LIKE THE MOVIES. No signal. Now we are starting to panic a little, but to keep ourselves calm we thought to ourselves they are just getting fuel everything is gonna be alright. 2 hours pass, then 3, me and my cousins are shitting our pants because the only adults there were our dads. that were just fully drunk at this point. Luckily we had hot dogs, caparisons, water to last us a while so we weren't in any danger. Thats what we wanted to think, because then 4 hours pass and it starts getting dark, we are a bunch of kids so we spent like 30 minutes trying to make a fire to cook up the hotdogs, and when we asked are dads to help, THEY TOLD US TO MAKE IT OURSELVESSSSS. Anyways, we started noticing the tide getting a little rougher, but we also started noticing that the beach was disappearing. And as time passes less and less land was visible just water, keep in mind this is a relatively small island. We started to panic because this meant that in high tide this island might go under the water. We are panicking, we are hungry because we didnt know how to cook the hot dogs, we were practically stress drinking caparison. 7 hours pass by, its dark, we are scared, our dads are like 40 beers in. At this point we are telling each other what we would do when we are back, if we make it back. And then, its almost pitch black, and then we hear a boat. It was a stranger, that was sent by my mom to get us. When they get there our dads are like, no no we dont need any help we are having a good time. They were clearly drunk so they gave us a ride back and everything was good, turns out the boat stop working, and the reason they took so long to send someone was because my grandpa insisted he could fix the boat and there was no reason to call anyone. Until my mom had enough and called someone. So yep thats my story.
I got locked out of my work vehicle the other day, with my phone in the vehicle. Had to get a guy to call the work office, and get them to call my supervisor, to bring the spare keys. Had to wait there for 45 minutes. Was pretty boring.
My first thought would be to have Armando call the fire department to bring a ladder. I'm glad you're okay.
Glad you’re safe!
" got released back inside"
this tells us that trent had already began to view the balcony, or outside as his new home
lol at first i was like yikes your one roommate might not be back for 10 hours! :O
Then you went on a long list of your other roommates and I was just like "oh no you may have to wait 10 mins" xD
Something similar happened to my friend and I except we were stuck on the 15th floor of our apartment complex. Good times.
You're lucky Armando still empties the bins after that scare with Spaghet! Spooked ya!
no way he tapped S.O.S. on the glass, I fricken lost it 🤣
On my first day at an internship I was going out to lunch with another intern and on a whim we decided to exit the less used side entrance of the office. We immediately got locked in the entryway between the inner and outer doors with no way to contact anyone upstairs since we didn’t have anyone’s phone number or work stuff on our phones. We ended up getting on LinkedIn and spamming the IT guy in hopes he would see it. It worked! 40min after we got trapped we were freed. Got brought up all the time that summer 😂
Happy you made it out alive!
Oh man I do have a really similar story to this actually.
It was a few years ago, middle of the night, and I went to my balcony for a cigarette. Didn't bring my phone, my shoes, my keys, anything. All I had was my PJs. The sliding glass door somehow magically locked behind me as soon as I closed it. It's interesting how your thoughts race in a situation like that. At first I thought "man this will be a fun story to tell my friends tomorrow" and then I realized that I could literally be trapped on my balcony until tomorrow. The only person living with me was my girlfriend who was very sound asleep at the other end of the apartment.
So I sat, started to panic, then got bored, then got *really* bored. After a couple hours I finally saw someone pass by underneath me, it was my neighbor getting off his swing shift. I asked him to call my phone hoping it would wake up my girlfriend, but it didn't. So I had him start banging on my front door trying to wake her up while I was banging on the balcony door. This went on for like 30 minutes, and at this point I was actually starting to get really cold because it was mid October and I just had a t-shirt on. Other neighbors were waking up and checking outside to see what all the reckless banging was about which was pretty embarrassing lol. The neighbor helping me was even offering to throw me up a couple blankets because it was definitely too cold to be out there for much longer. Eventually my girlfriend finally woke up, but she was in a total panic because she essentially woke up to what sounded like people breaking in from multiple directions. So I thanked my neighbor, profusely apologized to my girlfriend, and then thawed myself out in bed.
It's an interesting feeling when you realize you're effectively shut off from the world. No phone, nobody to talk to, nowhere to go, just yourself and your thoughts for an undisclosed amount of time. And it's all happening in your own home simply because a door malfunctioned. Thanks for the video, I've never seen someone with such a similar story to mine lol. Glad you didn't try jumping, I thought about it too and it probably would've ended badly
The weird thing that happened to me was that I found my roommate Trent locked out on the balcony
glad you're alright!
Balconies don't kill people. People kill people.
You sir deserve medal!
I'm glad you're ok, this heat is rough.
Happened to my partner and I too last month. Been in the apartment for over a year and didn't realise the door auto-latches when closed, until we were both out on the balcony together and couldn't get back in.
Stuck on the balcony, 6pm, dark, cold. Cat sitting inside in the warmth casually watching us panic.
Fortunately I had my phone on me as I had been listening to a podcast, and I was able to call the real estate, who by chance was still in the office late, and they came to let us in.
I had to pee in a potted plant.
man that sucks im sorry to hear that
Super coincidence that y'all made that short film just for this to happen 😂
you tell good dang good stories
Happy you are now safe Trent
This man is the opposite of an enemy vampire. I feel uplifted. I feel overjoyed. I feel alive.
The amount of roommates Trent has is TOO HIGH!
What a Trent story😄
Enjohed the vid. Thx Trent for sharing
A weird experience I had about 29 years ago; I was brought into existence. Thanks for sharing your story
You've got such a nice smile and I love listening to you tell stories,
Have you ever considered doing, like, a Joe Pera kind of thing?
It should have ended with you trying to go back inside and it being locked 🔒 😒 🙃 lol 😆 Im glad you're safe, Trent!!! ❤ Thanks for the storytime!!
one time I was going to deposit my paycheck & the wind blew it out of my hand and up onto the roof of the bank building
In my apartment the laundry room is locked and you need to use your key to unlock it. I always lock my apartment door when I do my laundry and I know one day I'm going to lock my keys in the laundry room at 10PM. But I suppose its nice having a smart watch in those situations so at least you can contact people and get your backup keys. Also a side story is I had to watch my friends cats for a week while they went to Seattle and I was really paranoid about forgetting my keys (and theirs) in their house. Since they have my backup keys in their house I'd be locked out of both their house and mine with the cats inside. Every time I left I shook the lanyard in my hand to make sure I had them.
I’m glad you survived