October 13, 2005

Today I spent the afternoon at the mall with my sister. There weren't too many people there which is actually the way I like it. I can't stand when it's packed. Anyway, so when we finished with Macy's we headed to the escalator to go downstairs to The Gap. Not too far ahead of us there was this woman. She was professionally dressed - Black pant suit and heels. She stops infront of the escalator and holds and lets go of the moving railing. Of course we're almost right behind her, so we see her stop and look down at the steps etc.

At first I thought she was afraid of it. Since we were like 2 seconds behind her, she let us pass and she continued to do what she was doing before. That's when I realized that we had actually interrupted her and she was counting how many steps went by before she finally got on the escalator. She was a good 5 or 6 steps behind us, but as soon as she got on she took a step down REALLY hard. Her shoe made this loud noise when it hit the metal, "BANG". And then another step, "BANG".

When we got off the escalator my sister asked me ,"Was that woman afraid of the escalator? What was that?" I told her that I thought that too until I saw her counting.

O.C.D.?