Monday, September 3, 2012

Lifting spirits

We have just been in a lift with a young couple. Sounds nothing out of the ordinary, but  the lift is tiny only made for 4 people, looks like the service elevator in our hotel - Hotel Shangri-la, Santa Monica. 

As we were stood next to the buttons, we asked them which floor. The girl said "Penthouse", I was like - where's that button then, it was unlabled. The young boy had to press the button - he even knew where it was on the panel.  

As the lift was very small, and my chest (actually sizeable belly - but chest in my mind) was almost pressing the young couple into the back wall, I searched for something intelligent to say. 

"So have you been in this lift before?"

Yes that's it. That's all my brain could think of. I'm in a lift with some boy-band super star (I have absolutely no idea who he is, probably one Justin or another, you know, Beiber or Timberlake or something) and all my brain could find were those words. "Have you been in this lift before". 

Throwing the stupid comment aside, the Young Boy played along graciously with my stupidity, and humoured me with some conversation, and yes in fact he had been in that lift twice already today. 

I've never been in a lift with someone wanting the Penthouse Suite, or someone from the famous five. Or wherever he was from. He might even have just been visiting. But something tells me he (or she) was some kind of local celeb. He was too young to be a business person. Unless it was Mark Zuckerberg, but I might have recognised him.