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Posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
So.. my husband took today off work to pamper me a little! One of favourite things when he is off work is to go down out local greasy spoon cafe for the fabulous Thai food they do.
We live in a flat.. Its the middle floor of a lovely Victorian town house in the middle of London. We share a hallway with the top floor flat, so we have a front door of our own that leads onto hall way. Then another main front door that leads outside. Being central London we have very good locks.So, we get ready for lunch, grab the bags of rubbish we need to put outside, go out into hall and slam our front door behind us. I ask hubby for the keys, and he starts searching his pockets.. he has no keys. I have no keys. We're locked in the hallway between the two front doors *l* Both of us have a major fit of giggles going on trying to work out how we get either out of main door, or into the flat.. Hubby tries kicking the door in but we are so safe that doesn't work at all.
Then, I find some fuse wire I stashed out there (electricty meters and fuse boxes for all 3 flats are in hallway), so I twisted it all together and used that to lever open the letter box so I could see out.. I saw next doors nanny walking past so shout to her and stick my hand out.. she comes over and I explain what happened, so she very sweetly called an emergency lock smith out.
45 minutes later (and we've read all the junk mail that had piled up in there!) the lock smith turns up and finds our predicament highly amusing!!
he quite quickly (well, 15 minutes) breaks into the lock on our main front door by drilling it out.. was just a 5 bar chubb lock so nothing major for him.
Then he moves onto the yale lock on our private front door. First he tries what normally works (quite worryingly simple.. in fact VERY worrying!), but that fails, so he says he'll have to drill it. So, he gets his fancy drill bit and starts drilling.. then we hear him saying "oh no, fuck".. he boke his drill bit. Goes to van to get another.. that one breaks!!So, he calls his boss for advice as he has no drilled the whole lock out, and you can see the parts, but still it won't open.
He boss advises something so he goes to his van.. We hear swearing. he's locked his keys in the van *lmao* he kciks the van in frustration and the alarm on it goes off (VERY loud as its a lock smiths van!).. but the remote control for it is on the key ring in his van.
He calls boss.. boss comes out and gets into van!!!Boss looks at lock.. looks at us and says "you tried to kick the door in didn't you??" yes.. we did.. "you've twisted the mechanism, we need to remove the entire lock by hand" *laughing*
So, they remove the entire lock!!!
Its was ust such a comedy.. I couldn't help but laugh through the entire thing.. I could't get angry as it really felt like a joke!
So.. after paying for an emergency call out to a lock smith (though he did give us 20% discount for cash *w*), and having to buy two new locks, and getting new keys cut for the main one (3 other people use that door) it really wasn't a cheap Thai lunch at all!!! *l*
Hubby is now busy fitting new locks!! Thank heavens he's had years of experience at changing locks (he was a squatter in his wild youth *l*) else that would have been even MORE money!! *l*
So.. lesson learnt today?? DOUBLE CHECK YOU HAVE YOUR KEYS BEFORE SHUTTING THE FRONT DOOR!!!!
Posted by Penny on February 11, 2004, at 11:31:43
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
Oh my....
Thank goodness the nanny was walking by though!!
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Posted by Karen_kay on February 11, 2004, at 12:20:13
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
oh! That is so great you were able to laugh about the whole situation. I remember once my boyfriend was out drinking with his friends, a he normally does on Saturday, and I love to have my free time alone. Well, he usually goes to La Bambas afterwards, so I called him at 3 am and asked if he was ready tro come home, so he could stop by La Bambas and get me a burrito. He misuderstood me, as he was drinking and rushed home, without food. Since our door only closes when you lock it, I was on the computer, and heard someone climbing through the window. There wsa my boyfriend, drunk as a skunk (and yes, he got the lecture for drinking ang driving!!!) halfway through the window, stuck!!! I had to push him through and unlock the door for him! Lucky he was drunk, or he would have been mad!!! He's a sweetie sometimes. I ended up driving to Steak and Shake instead! Yummy yummy! I love fast food at 3 am!!
Posted by All Done on February 11, 2004, at 12:48:25
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
It's so good that you can laugh about this : )!
I lock myself out ALL the time. From the car, house, office. You name it, I've locked myself out - or in for that matter.
The worst story was when I was 19 years old and living at home while going to college. I had a strange schedule, so one late morning I was at home taking a shower and everyone else was at work. For whatever reason (luckily, I guess) I had the cordless phone in the bathroom with me. Unfortunately, though, I had only a towel. The bathroom was right next to my bedroom and no one was home, so I figured I could run and get my clothes.
Anyway, the door and doorknob were kind of old. When I was finished and ready to make my "run" for my bedroom, I turned the knob and realized it was stuck. There was no way I was getting out of there. Hmm, what was a 19-year old naked girl to do? Well, my sister lived on her own and I knew she was home, so I called her for help. She immediately burst into laughter, called her friend, and they were on their way - in hysterics. In the meantime, my somewhat overreactive mother came home and called the FIRE DEPARTMENT! This, of course, was not before she tried to open the windown which was painted shut. While the firemen were on their way, my - ahem - crazy mother decided to try to knock the door down herself - WITH AN AXE!!! She said, "move to the back of the bathroom, I'm going to swing the axe!" She barely gave me two seconds, but it didn't matter, the axe only made a hole that didn't even go all the way through the door.
When the firemen arrived, they were able to get the window open as I stood there wrapped only in a towel. Oh the horror! Fortunately, my mom had the presence of mind to put some clothes through the window for me before I climbed out.
My sister and her friend - ROFLAO! It's taken me some time to get to the point where I laugh about. Back then, I must say I was a *bit* embarrassed.
Blushing all over again,
All Done
Posted by All Done on February 11, 2004, at 12:51:53
In reply to Re: How make a cheap lunch expensive!!! » NikkiT2, posted by Karen_kay on February 11, 2004, at 12:20:13
Yummy!!! I love La Bamba!
Posted by fallsfall on February 11, 2004, at 13:11:21
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
That's a great story, Nikki!
Posted by Eddie Sylvano on February 11, 2004, at 13:23:15
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
> So.. lesson learnt today?? DOUBLE CHECK YOU HAVE YOUR KEYS BEFORE SHUTTING THE FRONT DOOR!!!!
---------This happened to me last week. My girlfriend and I left our house after lunch to return to work, but neither of us had keys. We called our landlord with our neighbor's phone, and he essentially said "Tough luck, I'm busy." After contemplating several scenarios to enter the house (through the roof vent, breaking a pane of glass in the front door), I used a pair of crutches from my garage to reach the one window in the house that I'd chiseled open (they were all painted shut from the inside when we moved in), broke a tiny piece out of the bottom with a screwdriver, and pushed the latch open with it. It worked beautifully, though I did topple like a tree once while stilt-walking with the crutches. A dab of epoxy and 2 hours later, I was back at work without a problem.
Posted by Miss Honeychurch on February 11, 2004, at 14:56:06
In reply to How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on February 11, 2004, at 11:21:11
Nikki, I hope you still went to lunch! Although it might have been dinner by the time all was said and done!
Posted by gardenergirl on February 11, 2004, at 17:11:34
In reply to Re: How make a cheap lunch expensive!!!, posted by Miss Honeychurch on February 11, 2004, at 14:56:06
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