I was living in the Netherlands between 2009 and 2010. I lived on a student’s building, so I had my room with kitchen (this is, by the way, a terrible arrangement) and shared a bathroom with two other guys.
One day I was the only one in my floor for some reason. I decided to do my laundry, given the fact that nobody was using the washing machine. My door had a keycard - like the ones from hotels. I opened my door, pulled my dirty laundry bag, started loading the machine and realized that my shirt was dirty. Shirt off, added soap, and… Well, look at that, my pants could use some washing! Pants go off, inside the washing machine, soap comes in, I pop in a token and close the machine… When I hear the front door of my room (the one that lead to the 3 rooms and bathroom). I looked for my keycard… and just felt underwear. I left my keycard inside my room. The machine was already filling with water.
Another guy showed up. It was awkward. He borrowed me some clothes and flipflops. And off I went to the university to fetch one of my room mates who was playing poker. Ended up finding some friends on the way and had some beers.
What about you? Any awkward, funny-for-the-ones-who-are-watching-situations?
Isn’t that story straight out of a Desperate Housewives episode? Where the housewife somehow gets herself locked out of her own house, naked, and hides in the bushes?
Yes, Susan does that and I think Mike the plumber ends up rescuing her. And of course they fall in love, duh.
Stuff like this would never happen to me because I’m a) obsessive about checking to make sure I have my keys, wallet, etc. And b) I would feel uncomfortable about stripping and putting my stuff in the laundry even though my bedroom is steps from the washer and dryer because I’d worry about a roommate coming home.
My Sis tells a dorm story similar to this. She claims a common prank for freshman in the girl’s dorm involved stealing their clothes/towel from the communal bath, forcing them to run down the hall nekkid to their room.
She claims her roommate was a victim of this, but encountered a visiting family halfway, with no possibility of hiding. Roommate, trapped nude and possessing only a washcloth, simply used it to cover her face and strolled past them.
No idea of the veracity, but at least it’s a good logic story.
I have a related story that I guess you can’t trust the veracity of any more than that one 'cause you’re just getting it from some guy on the internet, but…
Our dorm building was divided into groups of three bedrooms (2 people to a room) that shared a bathroom and lounge area. The bathroom door had one of those locks that you could open from the outside simply by sticking a small piece of metal into a hole on the knob.
At first, when someone was showering, a roommate would open the door, turn out the light, and close the door leaving the victim to fumble around in total darkness. That semester, we were compulsively stealing road cones and keeping them in our lounge area. At some point, the prank evolved to turning out the lights, taking any towels, throwing all the road cones into the bathroom, and then shutting the door. Getting to the light switch or opening the door when the floor is covered in cones was a hell of a challenge.
So one day, when one of our roommates was showering, we got the door opened, turned off the lights, took his towel, threw in the road cones, and shut the door. By this time, the joke was kind of old so he just finished his shower in the dark and struggled through the cones and managed to get the door open when he was done. The first thing he saw after opening the bathroom door was a sign taped to the wall that said “Towel” with an arrow pointing to the open door that led from our suite into the main dorm hall.
I really have no explanation for why, but he says he thought we hid his towel somewhere out there and walked out the door without hesitation. We immediately ran to close and lock the door. We only left him out there for a couple minutes, but unfortunately for him it was parents’ weekend and our door was on the first floor next to the elevators. So several families coming in to see what school was like for their child were greeted by a dripping wet, naked guy asking them if he’d seen his towel (because he STILL believed that we’d hidden it out there somewhere).
