- August 13th, 2008, 10:08 am
#190508
(Did everyone have one RA they lov3ed, and one they nearly hated? Maybe it was just me...)
Anyway, I was in the Ra's room, having casual conversation with the RA I didn't particularly like my sophomore year. From right under his nose, I took his keys and put them into my pocket. The next day (a Wednesday), I left for 4 days on the road with one of the athletic teams. He didn't notice his keys missing until the enxt morning, when he had to do room checks during convo. Thursday night, I'm still on the road of course, but he blister the entire hall of guys for 20+ minutes about the missing keys, and how many reps they'll get, and that they'll get kicked out of school. BUT, if the perpetrator fessed up that night, just four reps would be given.
I heard about all of this while on the road. The keys had been stored in our fireproof, deadbolt locking two-drawer file cabinet in our room (great storage for all contraband.) Only my roommate knew about it, and he was cracking up= laughing. He didn't like that RA, eithe,r so he wasn't saying a word.
I get back from the roadtrip, and find out from my nice RA that the lost keys were going to cost his partner his job as an RA, and subsequently his scholarship. They were also going to have to replace every door lock on both floors of my dorm. Meanwhile, the RA who lost his keys was openly blaming some poor kid on the hall. I felt really bad for the kid, and maybe a little for the RA who had a meeting the next morning with one of the Dean's to report he'd not gotten his keys back. So I taped them to his door frame at 2am with some stupid message like, "Don't mess with me!"