Moments after writing my “shut-in” post I was forced out of my house. Well, I wasn’t really forced. A neighbor in my building locked himself out of his house with no phone and I was the only person in the building. I helped him call a bunch of people until he settled on a lock smith and is back inside his apartment safely.
If you have to leave your house on your shut-in day, walking down stairs to help a stranger is the thing to do. Or get ice cream. But I’ll settle with the former.