THE FIRST TIME

‘It’s not working mate,’ he said I turned to see them come through the door from the stairs behind me as i stood waiting for the new lift to arrive.
‘Yes it is,’ I said.
‘Since when’s it been working? said the woman.
‘Yesterday’s the first time I used it,’ I said.
They followed me into the lift arrived and the man pressing the low buttons said, ‘this one doesn’t go to the bottom, does it?’
‘No,’ I said, ‘you need the other one for that.’
‘Oh, okay.’
They walked out.
Just before she went into the corridor behind the man and as the lift door was closing between us the woman turned to me and said, ‘bye then, have a nice day.’