It was just one of those days. I was walking home and it seemed that the person in front of me was doing the same. They were one of the few not looking down at their phones as they meandered up to our front door. But oh. I was too far away. I felt my heart rate speed up. I needed to be faster. My right knee twinged. They had reached the door. They looked back. I looked into their eyes. I saw the key go in. I sped up again. The door fell shut behind them with a heavy click.
Have you ever watched as someone goes through the door and lets it close behind them a mere 14 seconds before you would have arrived? The frustration that comes from that but also the understanding that then you would have had to speed up and they would be awkwardly standing there and you would be rushing and maybe you bump into them as you enter through the door and you've been panicking so much that you forgot to say "thank you". Yeah, that sort of situation. Well I figured, why not consider their POV. What fantastical or entirely banal events happened in their day that led them to letting that door close not even that close to your face.
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