I lived in the dorms in my early college years. That’s where I gained a ton of friends and got to know many students. I spent two years and one summer living in a 250-resident building, sharing five toilets and 4 showers with 45 other students.
Yeah, it sounds cool but its not as awesome as what I was able to manage throughout those seven quarters (not semesters) living on campus: I managed to only get locked out of my room once.
My story isn’t as interesting as the one I read on Sandi’s ahhsome blog. Actually, mine isn’t interesting at all… hmm. Oh I know, I’ll tell you someone else’s locked-out experience instead:
I was a Resident Advisor in the dorms for an academic year and a summer, so I learned to really dislike it when people got locked out of their rooms. And they would always get locked out at very inappropriate times; in the middle of the night, early morning, while I was in the shower, you name it. One of these times, I was hanging out with one of my friends who didn’t live in the dorms. He was thinking about moving in. He asked,
“Does anything interesting ever happen around here?”
“Not really. . .” I responded
“Any girl stories?”
Just as he said that, I heard a loud knocking on my door and a girl yelling out my name. I ran to the door, and opened it. A girl from down the hall, named Marie, ran inside, and closed the door behind her and just stood there looking at me. I was looking back at her in surprise. She was extremely embarrassed. This young woman was wearing nothing but a towel and had wet hair dripping down her face.
I turned to look at my friend, sitting on my futon. He was nodding his head and trying to hold in his laughter at the same time.
“I’m locked out of my room and I’m late for class!” she said to me.
“How did it happen?” I asked back. You see, as RA’s we’re supposed to hassle students in order to keep them from locking themselves out again.
“It wasn’t my fault.” she said.
Yeah, it is never their fault. Almost every student has a very good excuse to get locked out, and its usually never their faults. Did they leave their keys inside? Yes. But it’s still not their fault. I decided to save her the trouble, I mean poor girl, she was late and in a towel. But how can it not be her fault? She forgot and forgetting is not her problem? Then who is there to blame? I let her in her room after fetching the master key, and she never looked at me in the eye since then, I guess she felt too awkward.
Ahh.. memories. I remember the only time I got locked out.. it wasn’t that embarrassing. Someone was throwing blank CDs like Frisbee’s in the hall and I stepped out to see who it was when the wind decided to shut my door.
It wasn’t my fault.
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It was the damn wind’s fault!
thanks for linking to me. Yes, I used to live in apartments that you had to push this “button in” where the actual bolt/door thingy connects to the frame and essentially locks. If you didn’t press it (and hear the CLICK) to unlock, your knob always turned freely on the inside but was locked on the outside. (lamest invention ever constant lock outs- doors would swing closed behind people) and people had to call security and they didn’t have keys. So, you had to fall upon a neighbor’s good graces. We all got really friendly.
I think I locked myself out 3x’s and that’s why I should have known better in my condo. I had prior experience with those types of knobs.
dumb, stupid locks. 🙁
Sandi
http://www.ahhsome.wordpress.com
Lake Forest, CA
Yea one time i got locked out and i had to pee so i took off the screen of my window and climbed in and my neighbors walked by and looked at me as if i was breaking in so i climbed out and acted like nothing happened