What Would You Say to An Elevator?

Being on the road daily I get to see and hear a lot of things and some of them are unusual.  I'm in and out of elevators in two hospitals and several medical buildings.  It happens sometimes that I'm distracted and get off at the wrong floor or I forget to press a button and the elevator doesn't move.(imagine that!)

Today however, was a first for me. I walked into the elevator that was empty and as the door started to close, I heard a voice.  At first I thought it was coming just outside the elevator, but it continued as the door completely closed.  The voice said, "Is there an emergency?" I looked at the numbers near the elevator door and I saw the light on the phone was lit.

So, I said to the elevator, "no, there's no emergency."  And the elevator said, "you can get out of the elevator?"  I said, "yes, everything is fine."  The elevator said, "thanks, have a good day."  It's not every day you talk to an elevator, but your conversation is pretty limited.

It will probably be quite a long time before an elevator talks to me again, but I 'll be ready and I won't be as surprised.  Maybe someone hit the emergency button as they got out just before me which led to to the conversation. Who knows, maybe they do random checks to make sure everything is working well? I don't think I'll ever know exactly what happened today, but it did happen.  I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine the conversation.