So I got us locked out of the home this morning while trying to drop App at the airport. I was at the car with the luggage before I realized I had no car key on me. Waitaminit, that means no house key also!! "App, DON'T CLOSE THE DOOR!", I ran back yelling. Too late, the door was closed and there stood App, confused. Obviously, she didn't have her key on her. This is normal, so I am not surprised.
We're still in our wi-fi range so she logs on to the net, finds a locksmith, makes an emergency call. It will be 20-45 minutes, they say. She gives up hope on making her flight, logs on to Southwest and changes her booking to the next flight (Btw, I think this ability is awesome; It's why SouthWest keeps its passengers). In the meanwhile I try to find a way into the house. I go around the back, climb on our neighbour's wall, try to jump onto our patio. However, I give up halfway, not wanting to add additional medical expenses to the already expected locksmith expenses.
App mentions the hairpin method; I tell her that it only works on bathroom type locks. I try to slide a business card to locate where the lock meets the door and find the spot. The paper card is not strong enough for the lock to give but an old credit card might help. I start rifling though App's purse, to find a small carload of plastic cards. I zeroed in on the Blockbuster membership card I didn't even know that we had. It was laminated, strong yet flexible. Perfect for my needs. I slide it in deftly and in 5 seconds, the door is open! Appa! What a relief.
Thanks to Blockbuster and thanks to the Hardy Boys (remember them?) for showing it can be done. :)
We called and canceled the locksmith.
6 comments:
very thrilling :)nice job ..
Raji
hahaha!! you should have seen us fighting... well, lessons learnt. Now we now know how to unlock simple door locks. Watch out people!
hahaha
u funny ppl
I thought ur neighbours kept a copy of ur key??
well ur house is not that secure eh...if u can get in...imagine a highly trained professional thief...;)
In our infinite wisdom, we predicted a long while ago that we might get locked out at some point and that it made sense to give a copy of our key to our friendly neighbour Elena. So we did. Rewind a little to last saturday night when we tagged along with Mike (Elena's son) to Stephen & Rachael's for a late night game of Monopoly.
Now, we had just been to Stephen's the previous week for a Halloween party, when I (like everyone else) had taken along some beer to the party. I was driving later that night so didn't drink and there was a lot of food, kids and pumpkin carving so almost everyone drank little - end result being there was tons of beer that hadn't been drunk. So last saturday, being the good samaritan I am, I helped my buddy Stephen free up some space in his refridgerator by consuming some of the excess beer. I wasn't driving (Mike was) so I was good. Until we got home late in the night, at which point I realized I'd left my key at Stephen's. Luckily, Mike was around so we got the spare key from his mother's and all was good. We didn't get around to putting the key back at Elena's before we got locked out again this morning however.
cool hero! ENJOY
bunty aur bubbly... ur neighbours better beware now!
now it doesnt matter if u lose ur existing jobs, new lucrative profession irukaave irukku! ;)
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