TIME OF DAY

Late afternoon.
‘We’ll wait,’ she said. ‘Send it back up will you?’
‘You may as well get in,’ I said. ‘Sometimes it doesn’t stop on the way up if someone gets in at the bottom.’.
She got in with her daughter and said, ‘true, it depends on the time of day, it does.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘It gets busy between five and six when people are coming back from work...’
‘...yeh...’
‘...and between three and four is the school run.’
Ground floor. The lift door opened. I got out. She and her daughter stayed in. No one joined them for the ascent.