They pursued a policy of staring through each other should they chance to meet in the lobby, but there were the occasional unseemly scuffles in trying to grab the first lift.

Not by them, of course; both men had security, so the security guys did the unseemly scuffling, whilst Smith and Scargill ignored both each other and the scuffle.

And the building’s security people resolutely ignored Smith and Scargill ignoring each other, and equally resolutely ignored their security people scuffling.

It was a source of some amusement to their fellow residents…