A RELIEF TO KNOW

Was walking up the stairs at the hill end of the block heard a door open above me then someone coming down.
‘Oh no,’ I thought and stood in the corner of a platform halfway between floors to let whoever it was pass when I heard them about to come into view...
...and there they were and I knew who she was a woman from the floor above mine at the far end of the flats to me who said, ‘hello,’ and I said, ‘hello.’
‘Isn’t it a relief,’ she said, ‘when it’s someone you know?’
‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘I know what you mean.’