I e-mailed my housemate from last semester, asking where she left her key.

The first e-mailed bounced. Perhaps, her hotmail account was full. So I e-mailed again a couple hours later. I finally got a reply the following day. She said she \”had left a New Year\’s card with the key inside tucked in your bedroom door\”.

Tucked in my bedroom door??? I spent the next hour rummaging through my room, wondering how it could have gotten lost. Was she bluffing? Did she think she left it, but didn\’t really leave it?

Eventually, Ray my other housemate got home from the airport. And surprise surprise, it was in his room. What amuses me and piques my curiosity is how my housemate got our rooms mixed up despite her living in the house for the last 4 months. Furthermore, the card was on his desk so she must have went inside his room (despite the door being closed) and placed it on his desk.

I did remember her mother (one of those random where-is-my-daughter-i-don\’t-call-before-coming drop-bys) once asking me whether Ray and I lived together upstairs. Ignoring the allusion, I just said that yes my room was upstairs and left it at that.