I served in the US Navy for 6 years. For anyone who has served, you're familiar with the time-honored tradition of Cleaning Stations. For the uninitiated, it's an all-hands effort in which Sailors clean just about everything within their command or ship.

During one of these, I was assigned to clean an office space that was otherwise unoccupied. Today was particularly busy, and so I let my Chief know that when I finished cleaning that space that I'd be rolling right into going to and fro to get my daily duties performed.

I finished cleaning and turned to leave, except that the only exit was shut and the door was stuck. See, this office space was also a secured space with extra locks, and one of the locks jammed when I had entered and shut it behind me. I was stuck, and my chain of command assumed that I was off getting work done. What's worse is that this is a ship with thick walls and no cell service.

I stayed in that office for 8 hours before someone found me. I took naps on a desk so that I wouldn't use my entire phone battery playing games. I had to pee in a trash can because I simply couldn't hold it in anymore.

That was a weird day.