Yea right, I locked myself out of my apartment, that’s what I just did… I have been enjoying our nice warm weather this winter and have had my windows open enjoying the nice breeze. Today I even had my car windows down as I went to and from the grocery, ah for the beautiful fresh air. So, I didn’t think anything about it when I just stepped out to throw a load of laundry in. The laundry room is just the next room over from our apartment and I normally just pull the door so that it looks closed when I step out and today I did just like I’ve done all other times. The only difference is, you guessed it, the cross wind grabbed my front door so hard that it slammed before I could blink. Our door stays in the automatic locked position always and I’ve just learned a valuable lesson to always have my keys on hand.

So there I stood perplexed on the very cold concrete with my bare feet wondering what to do. And mind you we have company coming (our friends Donnell and Michelle, the ones we met at the hotel) over tonight and I have things to do other than just stand around twiddling my thumbs. So I quickly started knocking on my neighbors doors trying to find someone who was home. I moved on up a flight of stairs as the first floor came up empty. Soon a nice retired gentleman came to the door and when he learned my dilemma he immediately called down to the office to ask for our spare key to be brought down. I let the nice man go and I went down to wait but this time I stood on the wood stairs as they were much warmer than the concrete below. I waited around for about 15 min when the nice man came out to see if I had been rescued. He brought down a nice pair of socks for my feet and a blanket. Quite frankly, I didn’t need the blanket and my feet were fine on the wood as I was truly absorbing our beautiful day. But I did thank him so much for the offer, how kind of him.

So I was standing there contemplating walking around as I’m on the first floor and my screen door (which I just noticed the lock was broken as it’s the first time I’ve had my windows open) was open. But, I had this huge area of cold stone to cross in my bare feet and I could only imagine ending up with a twisted and sprained ankle or a broken one at that (not what I need).

When I told the nice man my thoughts about walking around, he offered and with that he went around, let himself in and came through the front door letting me in. I just learned that he got the answering service and the maintenance crew and the office were closed for lunch. Ah what a nice man to let me in and get back to my work. Ok, so that’s the excitement for the day, now I need to resume with dinner plans.