STEINBACH, MB
There was a lineup stretching down the hallway this afternoon, as Mrs. Enns held the elevator door for “just a couple more minutes.”
Well, those minutes soon became hours, as Mrs. Enns had just one more thing to say yet to Mrs. Kroeker before she made her way to her second floor apartment.
“Oba, did you hear about Mr. Pankratz? I hear he’s in Intensive Care now,” said Mrs. Enns, resisting the protesting elevator door. “And the Loewens? Edith says that Wanda says that they’re on the splits. Won’t be long now.”
Mrs. Kroeker tried to extricate herself from the conversation, but to no avail. Meanwhile, the Wiebes tried to find another way out of the building.
“We’ve got seniors leaping out the windows,” said Mrs. Kroeker. “Diewel, that woman can hold open an elevator door yet.”
Mrs. Enns says she has no apologies for the door holding, claiming that she patiently waited once while her Henry sat on the throne for a good eight hours with nothing but a copy of Readers Digest and a match.