Getting locked out

Well, it's not the first time it happened anyways.

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Right now, I am the sole person living in my little dorm which is meant for two guys. My previous roommate discontinued his studies here and hence I am left here with an extra bed and a lot of extra space on the table, as well as more cleaning jobs and a more broken lifestyle. Uh, it's just a little difficult to maintain good discipline when there's no one beside to remind you about sleep time...

Because I'm the only one living in the room and I trust the people around me a little too much, I tend to leave the door unlocked. Well, that's not only trusting the people around me, but I'm just a little lazy to lock the door when I don't have anything valuable inside. The most valuable thing in my room might be...I can't recall any. Probably none then. I bring my phone, laptop, headphones, power bank, drawing tablet and USB cables everywhere I go, so there's really almost nothing left in my room that needs guarding. So yep, that's me - pushing the door out in the morning for class, coming back at night by pushing in. No one had that energy to unlock the door after one full day of stuff.

Today, I had to rush to class and hence left my charger connected at the port when I leave. The plan is to come back to get it before the second class starts which is after lunch, but something unexpected happened. What's unexpected? My class starts at 2, so I came back to take my stuff at 1:45. To my huge amusement, the door turns out to be locked.

My keys are in the room.

Source

Time's almost up, so I had to go to class with a somehow disturbed emotion. The school does some random inspection from time to time as far as I know, but normally they will leave a notice or something. Here, nothing was left and they were pretty friendly to lock the door after they leave...well, probably they expected everyone to lock their doors, but no, here's an exception. I can't do the same after my new roommate arrives, so I have to abuse this freedom while it lasts. But it seems that they wanted to make me be aware that I should always take my keys with me...uh, I just don't like bringing metal objects around me. I just don't like the cold feeling.

It's a pretty intense evening. My class ends at 5, and the office closes at 5 too. I'm lucky that the quiz at the end of class was pretty easy so I got to run out earlier and bump my head into the office just in time. I told them the situation (someone seems to be doing inspection but I'm not sure about that but I still told them something like that), the staff took my student ID, student card and room number, then returned with a key in which I can use to unlock the door and I have to return it to them before office closes.

That's pretty good, I kind of expected myself for being fined or something...but I guess it's not my fault for leaving the key in the room and one of them helped me to lock it up? And I'm pretty glad that I got it resolved by today, if I missed the office hours I might have to call the hotline and get a RM30 fine for...having a staff who locked my door on my behalf.

Lesson learnt: Apart from life necessities like food, water, the phone, drawing tablet and charging equipment, bring the key. It's not your own house anyways, staff could do anything to it, including locking it up on your behalf.

Probably I will need to make a small fabric bag for the key or something like that...whatever, see you next time :D

--Lilacse

P/s: Did I said that this is not the first time? Last time I got locked out by my own roommate :P