"I just barely made it this time," Haaji said to Simone. "It's getting tougher because everyone is starting for the higher floors earlier and earlier every week. They wait by the elevators pretending to drink from the water fountains at 11:30."

"People are getting nasty," she said. "Even here, I noticed clomping up the stairs midmorning. Because of the easy access to the roof I guess. Most of the people up there weren't from this building and Stanley Jacobsen said they pushed him down the stairwell when he came out into the hall."

"It's only going to get worse," he said. "A lot worse."