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TIFU by locking my gym locker

Here’s an actual TIFU—I just got home 20 minutes ago and I’m feeling like just about the biggest idiot on the planet at the moment.

My office building has a little gym, with little locker rooms for each gender. Both the gym and the locker room require your gym keycard, and your keycard only opens the locker room for the gender you registered as.

After work today, I went up there, planning to run on the treadmill for a bit. I got into the gym, got into the locker room, and got all changed. The lockers are tiny cubes, so my street shoes and work clothes went in one cube, which I don’t bother locking because I’m not worried about people stealing dirty clothes.

My tiny gym bag and more important miscellany went into another cube and I popped my padlock on it and was about to step out the door when I realized I didn’t have my gym card on me, and it wasn’t on the counter either. My padlock key is attached to my gym card. Both are now locked in my locker.

I have a spare key for the padlock in my car. The problem with that is my car key is still in my backpack in my cubicle. My cubicle is inside my secure office. My office keycard is clipped to my gym bag, inside the now-locked locker. And even if I had my car key on me, I’d have to leave both the locker room and the gym in order to get to my car, with no way to get back to the locked locker because the only other person in the gym is a dude, and I’ve never even seen another woman using the gym, so it’s unlikely someone would be able to let me back into the locker room.

Luckily, it wasn’t 5pm yet, and my coworker leaves at 5 (she takes an hour for lunch, while I take a half hour) and I know which door she’s parked outside, so I make the choice to gather my clothes and street shoes, abandoned my locked locker and try to catch her before she leaves the building so she can let me back into the office so I can at least get my backpack and go home.

Tomorrow, I’ll have to ask the office manager/receptionist to let me into the gym and locker room, and in the meantime, hope that they aren’t super strict about the “no overnight padlocks” rule.

TL;DR: I locked all my access cards and my padlock key into my gym locker; consequences TBD

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