I'm sure you remember those pneumatic tubes in department stores years ago - the sales person would stick your sales receipt and your cash in a little container, close the door and whoomp! the little container would charge up a special tube and sail off to the billing office, where someone would thereupon register your purchase and send your change whisking back to you with another thrilling whoomp! It always impressed us little kids. Drive-thru banks still use them.
You can imagine my consternation when I saw an ad for a pneumatic elevator for the home (pictured). It describes, in glowing terms, it's cutting-edge technology and its use of gravity for the descent. So this is the image that comes to mind: your hapless elderly aunt gets into this thing and whoomp! she's catapulted upstairs. On the return trip, gravity brings her back down to earth with, no doubt, another resounding whoomp.
A genuine thrill ride in your own home.
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