Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Locked out!

My wife is locked out of our apartment. And ours is not an apartment complex...it is a condo community. So, there is absolutely nothing we can do now. Luckily she was able to catch our neighbor before they took off...so she's inside thier house now, but I have too many meetings today to concentrate on this one. In anycase, I don't know what I can do now. I have to call the landlord and see if he can do something. And today happens to be the day she has classes and has to submit some assignment and all that. Murphy's law in action. My God...simple things like this can have great consequences.

Let's see if we can make an episode out of this:

We were first warned to make duplicate keys, but we ignore the warning. Though we have been locked out once before, we get locked out again. Today is the day I decide to go on my motorcycle, and as usual, I don't take the spare helmet with me.
Today is the day my wife has her computer class and needs to submit some assignment, after she actually finishes it.
Today is also the day when I have a meeting at 6:30 PM.
Today also happens to be the day when we were about to complain about several things in the apartment, to the Land Lord, but we are now left at his mercy 'cause he has a set of spare keys and we won't feel like complaining when he is trying to help :)
I wanted to wipe my motorcycle but I didn't have a cloth...I went back to the apartment and asked my wife to give me one, but I also asked her to come along with me and collect the cloth back so that I won't have to come back. She refused at first and asked me to take care of it, but with a little persuasion yielded :) Had she stayed inside, this whole drama wouldn't have happened, is her claim :)

The fiction part, to spice it up:

Today also happens to be the day when my wife doesn't have the time to brush her teeth or comb her hair before she gets out :)
The landlord himself is locked out of his house :)
Today is the only day I forget to take my extra helmet for the motorcycle and hence can't give a ride back to my wife :)
Today is the only day I don't take my cell phone and it's now locked up inside the house :)
We decide the previous day to save some electricity, but faithfully leave all our lights and fans on before the we get locked out :)
The locksmith is out of town today :)
Luckily, we find a neighbour who offers to help. My wife stays there during the day, trying to figure out what to do, etc. It is pretty late in the night when we figure out a solution, but that unfortunately happens before the neighbours return home. So, in the excitement, my wife manages to lock them out :)
In the meantime my wife is in my neighbour's house, she figures out how mischevious their kids are...watching TV without their parents knowledge and all that :)
So many things are left hanging inside the house, like bread in a toaster, water heater, CD burning, computer with virus update running, etc.
After a long fight with a friend, he/she finally decides to call us TODAY and we are not picking up the phone, after we promise them we'll be there to take the call :)
Finally, we figure out that the house was not even locked, to begin with, when some playful kids open the door to take out the ball they dropped in the patio :)

Do you think this will amount to 20 minutes, and with ads around it, will form a sitcom episode? :)

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