Friday was a long day of attending graduation ceremonies and helping people move.

Basile and I came home on Friday night at 11:30, rested for a few minutes, and then began to start moving some of the boxes that we're storing over the summer.

I left the door to our apartment unlocked, but when we came back from my car, we were unable to open our door. Allen wasn't home at the time, so we were locked out of our apartment, even though we both had our keys.

Here's a timeline of the events that followed:

11:45 PM: We tell the security desk we're locked out of our apartment even though we both have our keys. The guy at the security desk pages the maintenance worker to let him know that we need his assistance. The maintenance worker responds and says he'll come over. In the meantime, another worker heads to our apartment to make sure that there isn't some easy way to open our door. We are told to wait at our door.

12:20 AM: By this time, 2 different people have tried opening our door, but since the problem is related to the door handle and not the lock, we are told to wait for a maintenance person to arrive.

1:30 AM: We wait patiently, but at this point we don't think the maintenance guy is going to show up. So we call Jamie and ask if we can stay over at her apartment for the night. She lets us stay over, and we go to their apartment. I tell the person working at the security desk to call me if the maintenance guy ever shows up.

2:00 AM: We get ready to go to sleep at Jamie, Sarah, and Unjung's apartment, and begin sleeping on their couches. Basile falls asleep.

2:20 AM: I receive a call that the maintenance person has arrived at our door. This is about 1.5 hours after he was initially contacted. He begins working on opening our door, but it takes him half an hour to adjust the door handle so that we can open the door.

3:00 AM: We finally get into the apartment, 3 hours and 15 minutes after we told the security desk about the problem.

The most annoying part about this whole incident was not necessarily that the maintenance person didn't come quickly--it was a Friday night after all--but that we were told to wait in front of our door with the expectation that a maintenance person would arrive at any moment.

And even after all that waiting, the door handle wasn't completely fixed. The next morning, the maintenance person came back and needed almost 3 hours to completely fix our door.