I was in town Saturday evening when I got a text from Hick at 5:25...
"I have to go to the Apartments new guy can't get in"
Hick got home about an hour later, waving a set of keys.
"Somehow the key I give him to get in earlier doesn't work now. I don't know if he did something to the key, or something to the lock."
About an hour after that, Hick got another call from the guy. He said he had mixed up his apartment key with the key to his old house.
"Didn't you look at the key when you were trying it?"
"I tried the key he used, and it didn't work. So I gave him another key to the apartment."
"Aren't all the keys marked?"
"Yes."
"Did you LOOK at it?"
"I let him in with my other key, and gave it to him."
"So now he has two keys?"
"Yes. I also have a master key that lets me in all the apartments."
"Aren't they MARKED, though? Didn't you see that it wasn't the right key when you both were trying it?
"Most of them are marked, Val. I must have 500 keys left to me to deal with!"
"So you DIDN'T look!"
"I knew he had a way to get in. The window was open."
"WAIT! You expected him to crawl in a WINDOW?"
"No. It' s on the second floor. But I knew he got in, because there was a window open. So he was inside after I'd give him a key to move in, and opened a window. But then he said his key didn't work when he came back."
"You are so confusing! I didn't know what a window would have to do with anything."
"He probably went back to his other house to get stuff, and laid the key down, and forgot about it, and then tried his old house key when he came back to the apartment."
"Whatever. I'd think you would have at least LOOKED at the key you were trying, to make sure it was the apartment key."
"I tried the key he gave me in the lock, and it didn't work."
"But did you LOOK at it??? To see if it went to that apartment?"
"No. It's the same shape as our keys."
I don't know if the clueless is leading the keyless, or the keyless is leading the clueless. Maybe they should call in the blind for better leadership.
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