this just happened

i'm in the elevator, on the phone with my best friend, obviously not paying attention
i press "1" because i'm going to the laundry room to move my clothes from the washer to the dryer

i'm talking, talking, talking
the doors open, i get off the elevator, two boys get on
still talking
i look around and think to myself, this doesn't look like the first floor
and i immediately realize that it is, in fact, the second floor
so i quickly run back, screaming "WAIT! WAIT!"

the boys hold the door open for me
and look at me like i'm a bit crazy
because i kind of overreacted
and i'm still on the phone, talking talking talking

trisha asks me "what just happened?"
she's kind of laughing, like she can sense how weird the situation was for me
i briefly recapped the story, for her and these two boys, saying,
"it was suppppper awkward and now i'm embarrassed"

so now i'm in the elevator with these two boys who i've never seen before and i'm still on the phone, trying to make small talk so that the 20 second ride to the first floor isn't even more awkward than i had already made it
we get to the first floor, and i'm closest to the door, so i get off first
they follow
i exit the lobby, and turn left to go to the laundry room
they follow
of course they follow
i make a joke, like "are you guys following me? now this is getting really creepy and awkward"
i'm just calling it like it is

i end my phone conversation and enter the laundry room
i go immediately to "my" washer and open it up
then walk over to the dryers, select one and open it up as well
as i'm walking back to the washer, guess who opens the laundry room door
just guess
boy one and boy two
and so we make a few comments like "whoa...this is weird...whoa...of course....whoa...hahaha...."
boy two walks over to "my" washer, as if it's his own
and i make a joke about how it was only slightly weird that they had followed me, but now he was taking my laundry and it was reaching a whole new level of weird

then i immediately realize: it's not my laundry
it's boy two's laundry in boy two's washer
and now i'm the creep
who opened his washer before he was even in there
and almost claimed his clothes as my own

super weird, but we're all laughing

of course, i start my dryer at literally the exact same moment that they start theirs
so now, there are 45 minutes until my clothes AND their clothes are dry
and we're all leaving the room
recognizing that we're kind of sort of friends now AND we're walking back to the elevator together and so we might as well just embrace this new friendship

so i introduce myself to travis and kyle who live on the second floor and have never been up to the third floor
unfortunately for them, the fourth floor is where it's at and they've been missing out
travis overheard my previous phone conversation in which i mentioned that i would be playing scrabble this evening
which started a fairly intense, slightly rushed conversation about scrabble and different ways to play and which way is best and i'm in love
of course, we reached the second floor, but were mid-conversation
so boy one stood in the doorway and continued telling me about this special version of scrabble that i really should play tonight
and i was so tempted to invite boy one and boy two up to 432 to play scrabble with us
but alas, the doors closed and i'm not brave enough to invite my new stranger friends to play a surprisingly fun game

which worked out better, actually, because upon return to my room, my roommate and i did a "domestic" photoshoot in matching outfits. pictures to come soon.