When my neighbors were on vacation, they left me a message on my answering machine asking if I wanted to cover their doorknob with aluminum foil.
They didn’t tell me why and seemed to be in a hurry, so I accepted without thinking too much.
As I stood on the porch with the foil in my hand, I felt a little silly. Nevertheless, I carefully wrapped the lever and made sure it stayed in place. On the way home, I wondered what the point of such a strange request was.
In the days that followed, whenever I passed by them, I always looked at their door.
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