My Bathroom Lock

[saturdaynight16]

I turned the knob. Nothing happened.

My mind was elsewhere, it tuned the knob mindlessly for a few seconds as I was laying out the coming tasks of the morning: blow dry my hair, shake my khakis out and put them on, when I am going to get new shoes because the ones I have are starting to get those trademark Vans holes in the bottom, throw my shirt in the dryer with a wet rag, pull my cell phone off the charger…