/Smell Test - FAIL
No kidding. I’ve heard of drunks or drug-addled people going into the wrong house (I actually knew someone who did that and was lucky not to be killed or arrested), but someone who is straight, coming home from work, going to the wrong place? It doesn’t even make sense.
I know where I live. Even when I’ve lived in apartment complexes with lots of similar places, I knew where I lived. Again, this doesn’t make sense.
Walking into the wrong apartment can definitely happen by accident, and you don’t even have to be drunk to do it. I did it once (but only once). As a university student, I lived on the second floor and had three roommates. It wasn’t at all unusual for the door to be unlocked during the day, so I typically tried to open the door before going to the trouble of taking the key out of my pocket. On this particular day, I was probably distracted as I walked up the stairs. I didn’t realize that I had walked up to the third floor instead of the second. I opened the door (it happened to be unlocked) and walked into the living room...suddenly realizing that the furniture was all different! I quickly realized it wasn’t my apartment and walked out immediately. Luckily nobody else was inside, or at least, not in the living room!