I've done it twice already. The first time I had my phone with me and, in my inattentiveness, walked outside to call my landlord (of course) locking the door behind me. Luckily, the maintenance guy lived nearby, so it was a simple matter of walking to his house and absconding with a spare set of keys.
The second time... I had nothing but my bathrobe... and twenty minutes before my next class started. Lucky for me, I'd locked the knob but failed to close the door all the way. Since then I've learned to reflexively lock the door to the house but not my room, so if I forget my keys, I can always catch someone going in/out or hope that a door's been left unlocked.
See, it's not so much locking myself out that annoys me, it's that we have to pay $10 to have it unlocked. And every single time I lock myself out for something really stupid, like locking it from the inside to change for a shower and forgetting to unlock it before I leave. Back in Stone-D the doors unlocked automatically if you opened them from the inside.
$10 to have it unlocked? We only have to pay if we lose our key entirely, although then it's $40. My real concern is losing anything in my unlocked room.
There's practically no fear of theft here. The extent to which people follow the honor code is amazing, and really, no outsider would want to break into a key-carded building, on the very far edge of campus, and climb three flights of stairs just to take some bauble out of my room.
Well, it's hexameter in Greek. Maybe the Russians have an equivalent form. And I want to hear your sonnet! I'm with oion--I always take my key. Then again, it doesn't matter for me because my roommate forgets to shut the door half the time--she leaves it to swing shut, which it doesn't. So: always take the key, or stop locking the door, whichever is easier.
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The second time... I had nothing but my bathrobe... and twenty minutes before my next class started. Lucky for me, I'd locked the knob but failed to close the door all the way. Since then I've learned to reflexively lock the door to the house but not my room, so if I forget my keys, I can always catch someone going in/out or hope that a door's been left unlocked.
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I'm with oion--I always take my key. Then again, it doesn't matter for me because my roommate forgets to shut the door half the time--she leaves it to swing shut, which it doesn't.
So: always take the key, or stop locking the door, whichever is easier.
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Oh, and did you use the masculine/feminine rhyming scheme?
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I posted it.
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