And right about here is where the Nice Guy mask fell off and hit the ground with a deafening thud.

Fear and terror aren’t constructive, but it’s also not something that can be helped. Maybe that woman had been sexually assaulted in an elevator before. Maybe that guy looked just like a guy that used to hit her. Maybe she was once trapped in an elevator and she wasn’t scared of that guy at all, just elevators in…

This is going to come off extremely aggressive and I genuinely do not mean it to be but you have to understand: Your intentions do not matter in that situation, her terror is a learned an valid response as it was not about who you were or what your intentions actually were, it was about what they could potentially be.