Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:58:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Shouri Chatterjee <tuku@cisl.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: door

On Jan 19 Shouri Chatterjee inimitably wrote:

|Yes - it happened, yet again... :)

For those who don't know about the previous time something similar, but 
even more hillarious happened...

This was about 10 years (?) back - in Calcutta. My aunt's apartment was in 
Alipore Estate. I was staying there overnight and had gone to do some 
errand. My aunt's apt was on the 9th floor - the top floor of the 
building.

On my way back I walked into the elevator and pressed 9. Yes - I pressed 
only 9. Nothing else. :) The elevator stopped, I walked out, a lady walked 
in. I went to the apartment and pushed the bell. The door opened and I 
started walking in...

I realized that the lady holding the door was not too happy that I was
trying to walk in. In fact, she was adamantly trying not to let me in. I
thought maybe my aunt is having some fun and wants to tease me. So I
redoubled my effort to push myself through, right under her arm. Then I
looked at the lady's face - and of course, it was not my aunt!

As you would have guessed by now, I was on the 8th floor. The lady who 
walked into the elevator as I walked out, had called for it...

C'mon folks - it could have happened to anyone. :)

-Tuku