Awkward Elevator Encounters

I feel like there are lots of awkward elevator encounters on T.V./in movies… Someone runs into their ex, someone has an embarrassing fight in front of strangers, etc. However, I feel like I’ve lived the last 32 years without experiencing one of my own¹… until tonight.

You see, my gym is on the fifth floor, and I rarely encounter other humans on my way down in the elevator. So today, when the little bell dinged, I hardly looked up from my phone, and started walking off, assuming it was the first floor. Turns out, it was the third, and there was a dude getting on. He was like, “Oh yeah, creature of habit, huh? Yeah, people do that all the time,” blah, blah, blah. This is totally not the awkward moment, because Duder was pretty cool. 

Oh, no, things didn’t get awks until YouKnowWho over here was like, “Yeah, I’m used to just… getting off.” 

And then I had to ride two more floors like… 

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Can someone here please give me an embarrassing elevator story? Please?

-Bev

¹The other elevator encounter I’ve had was really less embarrassing and more unbelievable. My family and I rode in an elevator with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the early 90s in a small Midwestern city. We had no idea who they were, and it goes without saying that Smoke had a few comments about the ‘long-haired hippies’ in the elevator with us…