Me: Can I get a key to the department storage rooms in X building (where our lab has stuff stored)? I don't know the room number.

Department admin: Can I get a room number?

Me .

So I went and back tracked my steps from 3 years ago to figure out where the rooms where and find the numbers.

I would have thought the department administration would know the room numbers for the storage rooms? Or have the keys labeled as "storage rooms in X"? But that's too much organization I guess...