Do you ever do something that you don’t normally do? Like lock a door you never lock?

James was out of town, and I figured that it’d be very smart of me to lock the back door into the garage. I’m not sure why I felt like this was a brilliant idea, but I did, at the time. I locked the door before I went to bed. I slept. I got up. I went to the grocery store. And with armfuls of heavy, frozen groceries, I turned the knob.

Nothing.

Shit.

I had no extra key. I tried jamming a credit card into the lock. I tried everything I could thing of… So finally, I had to call a locksmith, and while he didn’t speak English very well (he was Italian), he was very hot to look at.

This poor man tried for an hour to break into my house. I paid him over $100 to drill my old knob off, let me into the house and put a new knob on.

Lesson? Leave the door unlocked. It’ll be fine.