Second, there was no bathroom on this floor, so to use the bathroom or shower she had to go down one flight and use the communal one on the floor belo.... There was a small wash basin in her room so she could brush her teeth, and had access to water for the small kettle she had brought with her to make coffee. There had been a bathroom on the floor previously, but it had been condemned as unsafe, and it was now locked shut, the university not deeming it economically viable to repair it for the. ’ She ended up deciding to make no decision right away. Realizing that Gloria would be worrying about her, she dressed in something reasonably conservative, restocked her supply of cough drops and headed out to the corner. The walk was different that it had been. With the attack fresh on her mind, every car held a potential killer in it, every john was possibly a Jack the Ripper. By the time Gloria was in sight, she realized that the level of fear was too great. The only way she could keep. 'The roar of the ocean was like a freight train, it was so loud, ' she thought.She stared down at the endlless waves, white and frothy as they hit the huge rocks below. The wind had picked up and it was getting quite chilly. She tightened her scarf around her head and neck, the cold cutting right through her. She also tightened the belt on her raincoat and slipped her cold hands in her pockets."What was this?" she said aloud. She felt the cold metal and unusual form of a small object in her. I reached over the box besides it with both my arms and pulled as hard as I could, but just as it loosened, the box fell down. The forklift must have had some sort of leak in the hydraulics, and the box had slowly been lowered until it rested on the part I just had pulled out, and now it fell to the box underneath it with a loud bang.I was lucky that my arms didn't get caught underneath the box, because it weighed several hundred pounds and I would surely have been wounded if so had happened..