Later on, when we got back into the room, she says to me, “How do you know him,” and I told her the elevator story. She couldn’t believe it. She said often times they see clients refuse to ride the elevators together, so she was surprised that I just hopped on there with him.
That whole thing has always seemed weird AF to me since the first time I ever went to an AMP...the way they all scramble around to make sure guys don't ever catch a glimpse of one another and the way I've seen guys scurry out under hoodies and sunglasses and shit like they just robbed a place. When I run into other guys coming into or leaving from places, I hold doors open and shit and just say "S'up." A couple of times, I've been to agency apartments where I was standing in the hallway waiting for a girl to come to the door or texting the agency because there was no answer at the door or whatever and I hear another guy coming up or down the stairs...more often than not, they freeze and seem fucking terrified, like I'm either a cop or waiting there to rob them or some shit.
The other night, I felt bad because I got bizzed in and entered a building with a dude carrying grocery bags behind me...I held the door for him and said "I gotchya" because he didn't realize I was holding it and he was stretching out a leg to hold the door while he reached back to gather up all of his bags. I let him go in first, and I was half a flight behind him...and then I realized that both of us were going to the same floor. When he turned right, I realized I was going to the door right opposite from his own door (in a very narrow hallway) and I purposely waited over by the stairs until he got inside, because I wouldn't blame him in THAT situation for being scared, if I walked right up behind him and stood less than a foot away as he opened his own door. I'd have understood if he'd been spooked by that, but IMO, fellow mongers all there for the exact same reason should probably just chill the fuck out a bit. It's more likely that the other dude is someone you already know from here than someone you need to be so afraid of even making eye contact with.