James’s bus ride home was much more relaxing than his maniacal dash to work, although the bus was much more crowded than it had been in the morning. He even managed to fall asleep for a short while as the bus made its rounds. Once he woke up, he noticed that he was near his apartment building, and seeing how he suddenly had excess energy from his nap, he decided to walk the rest of the way home.

        Bad idea. James was shoved, cursed, and generally beaten up on his short walk to the apartment building. Once he got there, he was so fed up with everything that he slammed the apartment building’s door behind him as he walked in. This dislodged a piece of animal hair stuck in a long scratch on the door’s frame. One of the tenants must have come back drunk and managed to scratch the door is their stupor, James thought as he absentmindedly picked the tuft of hair and put it in his pocket.