So I was so sure I could get into the apartment without help, I didn't ask
bored2sleep to help me down the stairs--INSISTED i would be fine, and also didn't call Gene to let him no I was coming.
result? I dropped (and EXPLODED) a gallon of milk in the stairwell/hallway, and gene had to clean it up, which made him really happy, and we're still out of milk.
I'm an ass.