nice roommates and new keys

i only did it once.
but sometimes once is all
you need.
to get labeled.


remember like almost 2 months
ago?
when this bit of the world was
still pretending to
be winter?


remember when snow lazily covered
the grass
and ice clung to the roads?


seems so distant now, doesn't it?
with the green buds and eager flowers
finally remerging into our lives.


(i love spring).


anyway...


during this short amount
of time,
during the bit of winter that we
kind-of-sort-of had...
i dropped my apartment
key
into a serious snowbank.


oops.


my key had escaped from my
keychain multiple times before,
because of my lousy key ring.


i'd been promising to get a new
one for quite some time.
actually the entire 5 months i'd had
this key.


oops.


but of all the times the key had 
escaped.
i always found it.


but not this time. 


secretly, i knew this key was a 
goner for sure.


but, that's not what i told my
roommate.


i convinced her, that i would
indeed find it.
and very soon.


i suggested my roommate hide her key,
(the only key we had left)
predictably under our doormat.


and she complied.
for far too many weeks.


until last week, when i came home 
to this.
under the doormat.

my roommate had finally had enough.

she'd copied

the key.

and found me a new keychain.

it's been a week now.

and my new key

is nice and safe.

plus, who knew i'd ever enjoy

the perk of wearing

my keys as a fashionable

bracelet??

- n.