[luckily, he removes his hand just when he gets that look--and immediately starts rubbing the back of his head with it]

Well...corridors hadn't come to mind yet. I mean, we always seemed to run into them eventually and I don't doubt that will happen again--but I wasn't thinking about that.

> For good measure, you hit the lift's button to go down again, despite knowing that, scientifically, such an action will not make it go any faster.