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“Why are you going to the 12th floor?”
A little girl starts to chat with me in an elevator in Shenzhen.
10/07/2014
Ruth Silbermayr-Song
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I enter the elevator and press the button for the 12th floor. On the 8th floor, a four-year old girl and her grandmother enter the elevator. They press the button for the 23rd floor.
The little girl looks at me and asks: “Why are you going to the 12th floor?”
I tell her: “Because I live there.”
The grandmother tells the girl: “You know, she could ask us the same question. Why are we going to the 23rd floor?”
The girl shows me a necklace: “Look at what I have here.”
She seems to like talking to strangers. Before I can respond, the elevator arrives at my floor. I say goodbye to the little girl and get out.
Have you ever had a similar experience?