#I hope to god my neighbours weren't home to witness the horror of someone trying to unlock their door while they're all home

[miss-shirley]

Do you know why, everytime I have difficulties unlocking the door to my flat, the first thing I check is the doormat?

Well.

Flashback to a day last summer that I spent mostly at work preparing for an important thing and just come home completely knackered, walk up the stairs to my flat and turn the key. and turn it again. and again. I should have started wondering after the second turn because I only lock my door once, usually, but I thought 'Maybe I was so exhausted I don't remember locking it twice.' So after the third turn I'm like 'huh, that's odd' and then I look down to the doormat and realise

'Shit, this isn't my doormat.

Shit, this isn't my door!'

So that's how I found out that apparently, if you use your key on another flat's door in the building it does go into the keyslot, it even turns, it just doesn't unlock the door, obviously.

So now, everytime my door doesn't immediately unlock (sometimes the lock is being difficult, sometimes it's my tired arse using my parking garage key which also fits in the slot but doesn't turn), I check to see IF I'M ON THE RIGHT FUCKING FLOOR, because apparently my brain is too exhausted to remember if I've walked up one or two flights of stairs mere seconds ago.