All right so today Karen was up north for work and thus was near my place. However my roommate works late on Tuesdays because of a teleconference with Japan, so I had her come to my work and pick me up, and then we went to the temple visitor's center where they had a little musical presentation thing for Christmas. Of course traffic was terrible and we got there right after it started and they didn't let us in the main room so we were relegated to a side theater where they were piping it into but the speakers were making a huge humming noise and someone came onscreen and said some stuff and then it was followed by silence (and humming) as the video for Luke II played (yes, the camera was piping us the image of the projection on the wall). So I said "is there supposed to be sound"? And one of the volunteer/missionaries eventually came back and said "there's no sound in the main theater either so you're just supposed to watch the picture." Which was pretty ridiculous since what really was happenning was that they were playing their own soundtrack with a bunch of musical instruments in the main room, but there was no microphone so we got nothing. Then after the video finished finally, there was a black screen for a while, and then some lights came on and some people marched on the screen, singing. Or rather, their mouths were moving, and all we heard was the loud hum. So I said "they're singing! Anyone know how to read lips?" Eventually they got some kind of microphone working so we could hear some of the main people in the play but it was just painful eventually so we just left and walked around looking at the lights, and then went to Yoshinoya.
Anyway when we got to my apartment, my roommate was mad at me because when he drove my car home and got to the apartment, he couldn't unlock the doors because he doesn't carry keys with him.
Who doesn't carry keys with them? Do you know anyone who doesn't carry keys around? I guess there must be some, but I don't know any other than him. When I picked him up from the airport on Sunday I remembered to bring his keys along so he could use them after I dropped myself off at Karen's, but I just plain forgot about it today. Yes I bear a good deal of the blame because I forgot to talk it out clearly with him ahead of time that I'd be getting picked up from work and he'd need to take care of stuff for himself, but there are any number of things he could have done instead of standing outside the apartment for two hours before finally getting fed up and going to the manager and getting charged $25 for getting let in. He could have...called me? Sat and talked with the neighbor for a while? Gone shopping? I got back probably 40 minutes after he apparently got into the apartment, and I feel bad that he was inconvenienced so, but it's a lot of inconvenience for me too, having to drive him home from work (except the past 3 weeks while he was in Tokyo), specifically now that I have somewhere else to go and someone else to see that I didn't have before (I didn't care at all before which of us drove; don't mind driving personally, and when his car gave up the ghost it wasn't a big deal, but now it makes things decidedly inconvenient at many times).
Anyway there would have been no problem if he had just carried his keys around himself like a normal person.
