I am on my apartment's balcony, shouting to my neighbors whose balconies overlook the same courtyard, asking if I can borrow a dder. While cleaning my bathroom I accidentally mixed chemicals to fill that half of my apartment with toxic fumes, and that is the half of my apartment that the door to get out is on. I suddenly find myself grateful that I don't have any pets.

  I get several neighbors' attention, but none of them have a dder. One does however offer to go around and unlock and open my door to let my apartment air out if only I'll throw him my key. I am about to when I am suddenly struck by the fear that he will take the key and have a copy made so that he can come back ter to rob or hurt me. I recognize that this fear is irrational - he'd have to make the long and obvious dey to go all the way out to a hardware store or locksmith instead of simply walking over and unlocking my door, and who would even do that sort of thing anyway? - and yet I find myself frozen in indecision all the same.