I'm an INFJ, but are we sharing awkward elevator stories? I want to share. :laughing:
A couple of years ago, I went away to college. I came back after the semester to live with my parents again and because it really hadn't worked out for me. My former work place had said that they would take me back, so when I went down there, I wasn't really concerned about the way I looked. I actually wore a shirt with a hole in the sleeve. Haha. There was one Indian guy who arrived at the building at the same time as me and I thought he was really good looking. I got nervous and felt silly because he was really overdressed and I looked like a total slob. I let him use the elevator ahead of me because I didn't want to have to stand with him inside the tiny elevator. I stalled for a few minutes, until I thought it was safe. When I took the elevator up to my old workplace, I realized that the guy was there too. He had been waiting a few minutes for someone to help him. One of the hiring ladies came out and saw me and asked if she could help me. She completely ignored the guy. I pointed that out to her and she didn't seem to care. I looked over at the guy and he shrugged his shoulders. He said I could go ahead of him. I handed the lady my resume and that was pretty much the end of that. Then when I went back to the elevator, the elevator thought it would spazz out on me. (It's a very old building.) I pushed to go down and it wasn't doing anything. Then it went down and I thought everything was fine but it went back up. It never did this before. I didn't realize it had gone back up and I was ready to walk out. But then I realized what had happened and looked up and saw the guy standing in front of me.
Him: What, did you miss me?
Me: *laughing* What are you talking about?
Him: You were waiting in the elevator for me, weren't you?
Me: No! I pushed the button and it started going down and then I guess you must have pushed the button because it went back up and then you were there...
Him: Don't lie to me. (blank, unconvinced look)
Me: I'm not! I'm completely serious! It was like this... (does impression with hands to look more convincing)
Him: *laughing*
Me: I must sound pretty stupid right now, so I'm just going to shut up.
Some random middle aged man joins us. We both stand there trying really hard not to laugh and keep looking back at each other. The man keeps making faces like "wtf is going on between you two." Then the elevator finally stops and I ran away like a little girl and started laughing uncontrollably. (Yeah, I don't know what that's about. It's really embarrassing when I look back on that.)
But in all seriousness, my whole life has been pretty much one giant awkward moment.