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"Should I even ask...?"
My housemate Lydia looked up at me from her bedroom floor as I put my house keys in my pocket. She acted as if there was nothing weird about what she was doing - using a hairdryer at full blast on a large, thick sheet of plastic she was holding. She was a university student studying art, so I was used to a certain level of antics and weirdness she engaged in for her degree, but this definitely took the cake. She gave me a smirk.
"Could you close my door? I'm clearly doing something important here."
I laughed and obliged. I closed her door and headed over to my own room next door to crash, even through the loud sound of the hairdryer through the wall. After some time I heard her turn it off, and could hear some laboured sounds of her doing something, including a little yelp - the kind you do after stubbing your toe.
"You okay?" I asked through the wall.
"Yeah I'm fine, it's just quite hot." She eventually muttered back.
Thinking nothing of it, I went back to scrolling on my phone. After a few minutes I heard her start making similar laboured sounds again. A lot of grunting later, it sounded like she had given up on whatever she was doing.
"Mike, can you come help me for a minute?" She suddenly asked me through the wall.
"Yeah, sure."