I was met with, “Hi, I'm Belinda!” This perky clipboard carrier smiled from ear to ear, tilted her head to one side and crooned, “All I need you to do is step into this room here, strip to the waist, then slip on this gown. Everything clear?”

I'm thinking, “Belinda... try decaf. This ain't rocket science.”

Belinda skipped away to prepare the chamber of horrors. Call me crazy, but I suspect a man invented this machine. It takes a perfectly healthy cup size of 36-B to a size 36-B-LONG in less than 60 seconds. Also, girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice... we're not Spandex. We can't be stretched, pulled and twisted over a cold 4-inch piece of square glass and still pop back into shape.

With the right side finished, Belinda flipped me to the left and said, “Hmmmm. Can you stand on your tippy toes and lean in a tad so we can get everything?”

“Fine,” I answered. I was freezing, bruised and out of air, so why not use the remaining circulation in my legs and neck and finish me off? My body was in a holding pattern that defied gravity (with my other boob wedged between those two 4" pieces of square glass) when we heard, then felt, a zap! Complete darkness when the power went off…

“What?” I yelled.

“Oh, maintenance is working. Bet they hit a snag.” Belinda headed for the door.

“Excuse me! You're not leaving me in this vise alone, are you?” I shouted.

Belinda kept going and said, “Oh, you fussy puppy... the door's wide open so you'll have the emergency hall lights. I'll be right back.”

Before I could shout, “NOOOO!” she disappeared.

And that's exactly how Bubba and Earl, the maintenance men extraordinaire, found me - half-naked, part of me dangling from the Jaws of Life and the other part smashed between glass!

After exchanging polite “Hi, how's it going?” greetings, ‘Bubba’ asked, to my utter disbelief, if I knew the power was off.

Trying to disguise my hysteria I replied with as much calmness as possible. “Uh, yes... yes I did, thanks.”

“You bet, take care,” Bubba replied and waved good-bye as though I'd been standing in the line at the grocery store.

Two hours later, Belinda breezes in wearing a sheepish grin and making no attempt to suppress her amusement. She said, “Oh I am soooo sorry! The power came back on and I totally forgot about you! And silly me, I went to lunch. Are we upset?”

“And that, Your Honour, is exactly how Belinda's head ended up between the clamps.”