Then She Walked Out

I was waiting for the elevator to go down at my client's office. I was on the first floor and since Mr. Elisha Otis invented the "Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus", one floor down was a very long way to walk down.

Anyway, as I was watching the down arrow lit up, I heard this coming from above:



Woman: "Yak yak yak yak yak..."
Man: "Bla bla bla bla bla..."

As the elevator came further down...

Woman: "Yak yak yak yak..."
Man: "Bla bla bla bla..."

It grew louder... I guessed it must have been the lack of sound proofing to that elevator that allowed me to hear the yacking, since it was one of those elevators built in the 70s. The one that used the clear circular plastic buttons with large floor indicator printed under them as the floor selection buttons. They don't use that kind of button anymore for those modern elevators.

Anyway, On second thought, they were just loud. If eavesdropping is your favourite pastime, then you should be able to make up what they were talking about. All I knew was that they were so engrossed with their conversation until...

"Ding!" (first floor)

The elevator opened its door and then she walked out, almost walking over me, and I had to move aside...

Woman: "Yak yak yak yak yak..."
Man: "... ... ... ... ... ..."

I knew that multitasking was not his forte as he was unable to stop the woman from walking out to the wrong floor, while he was yacking with her and while he was holding the elevator open, all at the same time.

I knew that he knew that it was not the floor that they were supposed to get out from the hapless look on his face.

I knew that the woman did not know where she was as she was yacking to herself away from the elevator.

Somehow, it amused me to see how far she would walk away before noticing that she was alone. I know. Bad Bear! Therefore, I waited and it was about 5 seconds later, she turned around with a surprise look on her face. Then, she walked back in to the elevator.

Woman: "... ... ... ... ... ..." (face turning red)
Man: "... ... ... ... ... ..." (staring through the elevator)
Bear: "... ...", breathed in "... ...", breathed out...

The silence was unbearable!

"Ding!" (Ground floor)

Bear: "Muahahahahahahahahahahah!"

The woman and the man looked at me disgustingly and walked away...

Bear: "Muahahahahahahahahahahah!", all the way to the car park.

*Words of wisdom: "Always check your floor indicator before walking out of an elevator if you do not want to be laughed at by a bear"