4 or 5 years ago I was home alone and decided to take a shower. I put my clothes in the laundry basket and then walked upstairs to the bathroom. Because I was home alone, you see, and the advantage to being home alone is that you can take off your clothes in a room entirely separate from the bathroom when you go to take your shower. Why bother with carrying dirty clothes back to the hamper?
As soon as I lock the bathroom door (I don’t care how alone I am, the door to whatever room I’m in must always be shut. It’s weird, I know, and I’m sorry.) I hear a knock at the door. I ignore it. The doorbell rings. I ignore it. The door OPENS. I PANIC. Then I hear my neighbor, say “Is anyone here? HELLO?!” and I am naked and scared. The screen door opens and I am whisper-screaming OH MY GOD and yell-thinking HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS SITUATION and she is talking to my dog and walks up a few steps, down a few steps and then finally, finally leaves and I am frozen in place wondering why my neighbor just broke into my house.
After a few moments I run to the front door, lock it, and turn around and see what was so important that my neighbor felt the need to break in: She left us a box of Trader Joe food.
She continued to give us boxes of food from Trader Joes for the next year. We don’t know why and she never explained. The lesson I learned is to never be naked anywhere ever again, no matter what.
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