When you live in the basement: Strategy No. 247

Context: The hall and stairway lights have motion sensors and timers, but the timer duration is maybe 3 seconds, probably less.

Challenge: To get down the spiral staircase to our apartment door in one piece.

Solution: Get halfway down the stairs [lights out], and swing your bag / arm out around the corner to activate the next light. Scurry.

Of course, if you have to hunt for your keys, or put your bags down in order to actually open the door, you have to do a sort of porte de bras to activate the light behind. Something like the third step from the left...

p.s. Why number 247? That's how many days I've been in Turkey!