Elevator

I was inside the elevator, I went up to the fortieth floor, the top floor of the library and the elevator went down. The man by my side had pressed the button with the number zero, he had to go down to the ground floor and I had to get to the twentieth floor, but I didn't press the button with the number twenty, and I just observed the physiognomy of the man beside me.
He was slender, he was wearing short shorts that revealed his long and slender legs, even his chest was swollen as if the man was trying to hold his breath, but in reality he didn't hold anything, rather he breathed almost imperceptibly.
So this man had a strange headdress, a very swollen cap that enclosed a hair that was evidently very thick. There were thin locks of curly hair that came out all around the cap, they came out continuously, as if the whole hair had a great desire to get rid of the cap.
I looked intensely at the unknown man and I was embarrassed but also intrigued, and I expected to see the thick mane of hair rid of the cap and squirt all around.
Instead, the man beside me was completely indifferent as if the strong hooked nose, which I saw only in profile, did not feel my presence at all.

Ascensore

Ero dentro l'ascensore, ero salito al quarantesimo piano, l'ultimo piano della biblioteca e l'ascensore scendeva. L'uomo al mio fianco aveva premuto il pulsante col numero zero, doveva scendere al piano terra, io invece dovevo arrivare al ventesimo piano  però non premevo il pulsante col numero   venti e mi limitavo a osservare  la fisionomia dell'uomo al mio fianco.
Era slanciato, aveva pantaloncini corti che scoprivano le gambe lunghe e affusolate, anche il torace era gonfio come se l'uomo si sforzasse a trattenere il respiro, ma in realtà non tratteneva niente, anzi respirava in modo quasi impercettibile.
Dunque quest'uomo aveva uno strano copricapo, una cuffia  molto gonfia che racchiudeva una chioma evidentemente molto folta. C'erano delle sottili ciocche di capelli ricci che uscivano tutt'intorno alla cuffia, ne uscivano in continuazione, come se tutta la chioma avesse una gran voglia di liberarsi della cuffia.
Io guardavo intensemente quell'uomo sconoscito ed ero imbarazzato ma pure incuriosito e  mi aspettavo di vedere la folta chioma di capelli liberarsi della cuffia e schizzare tutt'intorno.
L'uomo al mio fianco invece era del tutto indifferente come se il forte naso adunco, che vedevo solo di profilo, non sentisse affatto la mia presenza.