overheard today in the elevator of the hyatt hotel perth

a man in his late 20′s hits the 18th floor button in the elevator, but just as the doors start to close a drunk man and a woman in their mid 30′s, that he thinks are a couple rush into the elevator. they hit the first floor button and he sighs. as the doors close he says to them, “well thats just lazy, you could have walked”. they look at him and the woman says, ” no i couldnt have, i have leukaemia”, there is an awkward silence, and then the first man says apologetically “oh, ok, im sorry, i didnt know” and as the drunk couple leave the elevator she looks at him and says, “yeah, ok, you’re sorry” there is a hint of smugness in the tone of her voice.

26. September 2010



6 Comments

Lukas

Kele = gossip, every little details XD

Bouclette

??? well, ok.

Howl

Not gossip, Informer.

yunga nunga

when are you going to write a book biographical or otherwise??? …you know you want to :-)

Mo

How did you know that the man was thinking they were a couple?

in his late 20s you say?

Hmmm…interesting. LOL

Max

What I take from this is that someone could make that mistake. Leukemia isn’t a common thing to observe and detect. So once the man made apologizes, shouldn’t that be good enough? The woman obviously doesn’t believe sympathy is a possible thing to have for the man with leukemia, but why must she stoop to lower levels? If the man were not to say sorry it’s mostly appropriate for her to be annoyed with him, but that isn’t the case. It’s interesting sometimes how even when one person apologizes and must feel somewhat bad, its not good enough.

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