So, I’m a nice guy. Ask anyone. Today, I went down to get a key copied at a mall kiosk. This may have been a bad idea, but whatever. The woman there spent 10 minutes looking through key blanks before she told me they didn’t have the right on. Five of those minutes were spent comparing my key to a blank that was plainly wrong. She showed it to me. I told her it was the wrong blank. She showed it to the guy at the kiosk next door. He told her it was the wrong blank. She compared them again. Somehow, they were still totally different keys.
Did I get angry with her? No. I was polite. I left. I am positive that other customers are not so pleasant.
So, I get back to my building. I went through the doors to the elevators on the bottom floor. The elevators only go up from there, and there is nowhere else to go, so anyone going through those doors is going up in the elevator.
Anyway, exiting the door as I was entering was a guy on crutches. I stopped to hold the door for him, because that seemed like the right thing to do. Some guy was already in the elevator lobby waiting to go up. As I was holding the door, he got in an elevator and left. After I held the door, I saw him through the closing elevator doors. I didn’t have a chance to make eye contact.
Is that a total jerk move? Would you have held the elevator for fifteen seconds so I could get in, too? Or am I being ridiculous? I’m inclined to think I’m not.