Anyone else looking for something to liven up these long, gray days? I know I am, and this is what keeps me entertained:

I hit the down button and one set opened immediately. Only one man inside. I got in but before I could press the button for my floor, he hit another one going up.

“Hey, what gives?” I said. The doors had already closed. I couldn’t jump out to find another.

“I forgot something upstairs and I need to get it now,” he said coolly. I rolled my eyes. Whatever. Then, when we got there, he turned to me before he left. “Do me a favor and hold this for me, will you? I’ll only be a few seconds.”

I folded my arms across my chest. “Fine.”

It was not a few seconds. More like five minutes, and when he came back he expressed surprise that I had…