A Tale of Fall Semester:
I started off and ended my first semester of college in roughly the same way: getting locked out of my building. How exciting right? The first time was about three days after everyone had moved in, and I gave my room-key to Chandler while I talked to a friend and ended up locked out, banging on the windows, but nobody woke up. I ended up spending the night in a friend's car. The best part about this whole thing is that the next morning when I came back, nobody believed that I'd banged on their windows. They swore up and down that they would've woken up and come to the door. Let me tell you, they didn't.
So, fast forward four months. It's finals week. We just got finished studying at the library until 2 in the morning, and we walk outside to find that it's raining. We only had about three days left all together until some of our roommates left for missions, and there's this thing I've always wanted to do where you wash your hair in the rain. Yeah I sound like a psycho. Whate'er! I thought it was awesome! So on our way home I turned to Kelsi and told her we should wash our hair in the rain. After a little bit of convincing, I got Alex and Kelsi on board with Michaela as designated photo taker! She didn't stay designated photo taker for long though.. it turned into. "Wait.. is everyone washing their hair in the rain? Well... now I want to!"
Next thing you know, we're draped in towels with shampoo bottles in our hands traipsing out into the freezing cold rain. Anyone who saw us probably thought we'd taken a little too much NyQuil (if you know what I mean). Washing your hair in the rain is actually a lot harder than it may sound. Basically, the top part of your hair becomes a little damp and then the rest of your hair is still super dry so once you're done trying to lather, you end up with a very nice shampoo mullet. It's a good look. I tried to find solutions to the lack of moisture like sticking my head in the snow. Not only was this a stupid idea, it was a very cold idea as well.
Action shots!!
Yeah.. not effective. Don't try this at home.
This is the very exotic Egyptian shampooing triangle. Me washing Alex's hair who's washing mine and Kelsi's who's washing Alex's and mine while I wash Kelsi's and Alex's. Cool right?
....It was like three a.m. leave us alone.
Michaela looks pretty overjoyed, but Alex's face.... I'm beginning to wonder if she just realized that nobody brought a key out of the building...
Yeah.. that's right. We all got over the initial joy of doing something totally strange and stupid at three a.m. pretty quick. We were cold and wet and there was no way that all that shampoo was being washed out in the rain, and despite how awesome shampoo mullets look, we were all a little done. So, we decided it was time to go back inside and wash it all out in the comfort of a warm shower. We all turn to Michaela for her key because we'd had our own Council of Elrond and decided Michaela would be the key-bearer for our little excursion. But Michaela had no recollection of this, and had assumed that someone else had brought a key. Panic set in. If you need a reference as to how this looked see the picture of Alex above.
We had two roommates asleep inside so everybody set out to bang on their windows.. except for me. I just sat back and laughed, knowing that I'd done this all before and we weren't going to be receiving any help from sleeping roommates that night. After banging on their windows and calling them half a dozen times each, everybody finally resigned to the fact that we were stuck outside. That's when I noticed the room above us (our wonderful FHE sisters) was glowing from a tv... and I could see somebody's head!!
Kelsi whipped out her phone and asked if they could come open the doors for us. When we explained what had happened we expected something along the lines of "okay then....." or just the smile and nod while quickly backing away. However, she thought that it was so cool and explained that it was on her bucketlist. I guess we aren't that crazy after all.
So we'd made it into the building, but our apartment was still locked. Kelsi texted the RA but it was nearing 4 a.m. so our hopes of her being awake were close to none. Just as we'd resigned to washing our hair in the lobby bathroom's sink and sleeping in the activity room on the couches, our RA texted us back!! She let us in our room and gave us that "Well okay then..." reaction we'd been waiting for all night. We finally got to wash all of the shampoo out and go to bed.
Now you'd think that after the first time I'd gotten locked out, I would've learned my lesson, but after this I knew!! Moral of the story? Maybe go to bed at a reasonable time? Rain is not a suitable substitute for a shower? How about take a lesson from Frodo ... the key is always your burden to bear!
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