Dream Stairs

Concrete Stairs in a Concrete Room

A friend of mine are outside a shopping mall. He's telling me his about his plan to marry Princess Margaret, never mind that she died 20 years ago. Maybe this dream happened 60 years ago. He needs something from the drugstore which is where we are headed. The drugstore is stuck onto the side of the mall, you can probably get there by going inside the mall, but it looks like there should be another entrance over to the side. The place that looks like it should be an entrance isn't. There is a recess maybe four feet deep in the wall, but there is no door, just a low concrete barrier about table height. It opens into a big, empty, concrete room.  There is a ledge cast into one concrete wall about eight inches wide. It slopes up to the next level. The slope is about half as steep as a flight of stairs. We have no trouble getting on this ledge and then side-stepping up to the next level. Well, presumably we side-stepped up to the next level, because we get there, but my brain skips over the part about actually side-stepping. We start and then we are on the next level, just like in the movies. At the next level there is the same thing. Still no sign of a store, nothing but empty concrete rooms, but maybe the next level will get us there. Once more into the breach, but this time the ledge isn't so well made and after a few feet it narrows down to about four inches. A skinny person would have no trouble in sidling along this ledge, but I don't know if chubby me can manage it. Funny, there was never any fear of falling in this dream even though we must have gained considerable height. Unless the ledge was just following a stairway, but if that was the case, why didn't we just take the stairs?