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button on the
panel and the large solid garage door started to close. I could see the infected
man in the alley turn and look in the direction of the closing door. He
immediately let out a low moan when he saw me and changed his direction,
starting to head back my way.
    All I could think was ‘come on door’. I silently wished it to
move faster, come on, close I thought to myself. Please close. Close, you son
of a bitch.
    The infected man bumped into the garage door just as it
latched closed and I found myself in the apartment building garage looking
around for any other threats.
    Not seeing anything I started to move slowly from car to car,
using the walls and the pillars to keep in the shadows as I made my way to the
elevator. Since the automatic garage door had worked, I assumed I had a pretty
good chance that the elevator would work also. The electricity must have been
working, so it would be easier to use the elevator versus the stairs.
    I hit the up button for the elevator and waited, finally hearing
the whine of the elevator as it started to come down to the garage level. Not
wanting to be surprised, I stood to the left of the elevator door and waited
for it to land and the door to open.
    As I waited, I remembered a time when I was going to meet Amy
in the garage and I thought it might be fun to scare her when she exited the
elevator. I thought it would be a great prank, unfortunately, it quickly turned
on me. Just as I was about to jump out at Amy, an older lady stepped out of the
elevator. I was already moving and could stop, so I jumped out in front of her
and screamed at the top of my lungs.
    Of course, she was surprised when she saw and heard me, but not so surprised that
she didn’t place a solid foot, squarely to my balls. I immediately struck the
classic pose of someone having their balls shoved into his stomach.
    My eyes popped out of my head, my jaw immediately hit the
ground, my hands moved quickly to where my balls once were hanging and I was standing
on my tippy toes, like MJ during his Thriller days.
    I was pretty sure we could have won the contest for funniest
video on AFV.
    The old lady just looked at me with a look of disgust for
scaring her. She shook her head at me and then used her hand to push me down to
the pavement as she walked by me.
    I’m sure I heard a slight giggle as she made her way to her
car.
    I, of course, did not giggle. All I could do was lay there
and catch my breath.
    As I was standing there, remember that learning moment, I
started to hear more of the infected at the garage door and fencing that
protected the garage from the alley. It seemed the single infected now had other
infected interested in what he saw and the dinner bell was on for everyone.
    Come on elevator. Let’s get a move on I thought.
    The bell for the elevator finally rang, announcing the
elevator had arrived at the garage floor and then the doors opened, shining
part of the garage in light.
    This time, I stayed hidden and waited to see if anything walked out of the elevator.
I figured that any infected in the elevator would move out once it heard the
moans of the other infected at the garage door. They were really creating a
racket at the door and before long there would be a horde of infected trying to
get in.
    I could only hope that once I was gone, they would lose interest
since they wouldn’t be able to sense or hear me and would move on to find new
prey.
    When nothing came out of the elevator, I made my move.
    I moved to the elevator door and then stepped into the elevator
compartment. I pressed the second-floor button and the door started to close. I
was hoping there wouldn’t be a stop on the first floor, but I could not tell.
    I wasn’t sure what might be waiting for me when the elevator doors
opened, either on the first floor or on Amy’s floor, but I figured I could deal
with it. So far, I had been lucky and made it to Amy’s without really having to
deal with the infected. I had spent all my