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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Confession time

I had just bought a new house
it had to be inspected
there was no lock on the back door
so before the inspector got there
I thought I would go the cheapest route to a quick fix
and I bought a 2 dollar padlock and a chain lock thingy
I put the padlock on the outside of the back door which leads to the sun porch and then to the kitchen
I then walked around to the front door and thru the kitchen into the sun porch to install the door chain lock thingy
it was 97 degrees outside and probably 200 in the porch
anyway, I closed the kitchen door so the unbearable heat from the sun porch wouldn’t get in the house.............
THE KITCHEN DOOR WAS LOCKED FROM THE INSIDE!!
THE DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE WAS LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE WITH A HUGE PADLOCK THAT HAD 3 INCH SCREWS HOLDING IT IN!!!
I was stuck in there
it was about 2 pm, and the kids weren’t going to be home until 5:30.
I had to do something,
I was drenched and I'd only been in there like 5 minutes.
I was sure I would die if I stayed in there a second longer.
I made a decision.
I would break down the door and buy a new one with a proper lock on it.
looking around all I saw was a 3/4 inch 6 foot by 4 foot piece of plywood, a couple of kids books, a broom from the dollar store and I had a small screw driver.
So I started to pull at the door, the handle came right off!
This is no good
I gotta have something to grab onto so I can wedge my screw driver in there and pry the door enough to slide the plywood in there and bust out.
I used a screw from the chain lock to hold the knob in place
I pried at the door with a book called "the rainbow fish" and the book broke
I pried at the door with a small screwdriver, it broke,
I pried at the door with a dollar store broom, it also broke but I got a space that the plywood fit into and I busted out at about 3:20 pm.
I was soaked in sweat and could hardly breathe but the inspector would be here in the morning so I had to fix the door.
It wasn’t broken that bad, I told myself.
I reattached the padlock with longer screws and reinforcement, I locked it, I went inside thru the front and into the sun porch thru the kitchen door......................totally forgot until the moment that I heard the door click shut all the way.
that THE KITCHEN DOOR IS LOCKED FROM THE INSIDE!!!!
THE DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE WAS LOCKED FROM THE OUTSIDE WITH A HUGE NEWLY REINFORCED PADLOCK
I’m stuck
Again

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