I just managed to lock myself out of my apartment. While on my balcony.
As that sinks in, I'll elaborate. Every door that leads directly to the outside (i.e., the porches/balconies) is a two-layered door system. Sort of the same principle behind storm windows. Normally, if you want to hold heat in, you would just close the outermost door whilst outside. In this case, I just sort of swung the doors closed, meaning the inside door latched shut, as well. This is, as we say, a problem.
This is a problem because both doors open inwards, meaning that I can't get to the inside door to open it. Also, since my apartment door is currently locked, I can't get call anyone to come to my apartment to let me in. Thus, I have two options. Climb down, or spend the rest of the day (and the night) outside. As I live on the 2nd floor (3rd floor in America), neither option is particularly appealing to me.
Fortunately, there are a great many protrusions, ledges, and other balconies that I was able to use, though I imagine it would have caused awkwardness had anyone actually been there to watch (specifically when I had to slide under an antenna support bar to land on one the balcony railing of one of my downstairs neighbors).
The escape route:
Still, no harm, no foul, and I'll admit that, in the end it was a bit of a rush.
...That doesn't mean I'm eager to have a repeat performance.
Later, flipsiders.
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