O.M.F.G.

[chaoswolf]

I can't believe this. I mean...I can, but I...can't quite wrap my mind around this. Perhaps you could

explain it to me.
I was making some final adjustments to my character sheet for flower_cat  just yelled at us about going to bed. I considered this for a moment, then was on my way to do that when Emmy put her paw on the door knob. Then all broke loose: she had locked herself out of her room! Intelligent, no? So I tried the door to no avail, found mdlbear 's computer screw driver, unscrewed the knob, whined about it to Mom for a few minutes, found my ice pick, shoved it into the door jam. All of this took several minutes, but I finally went downstairs to report my success:

• Good news: the door was open.
• Bad news: the door knob was on the floor.

Being my mother, flower_cat  made me screw the door knob back together. I cooperated, discovered my darling sister had the knob in locked position, screwed it back into place, then replaced dad's screw driver where I'd found it. Afterwards, I went to go talk to Mom about my hazard pay for dealing with the door. 1 bag of chips, since sushi is expensive. I can live with this. I got screwed. I deserve hazard pay.

selkit : Stay strong, hon. T-14 days and counting. Then I can curl up 'longside and try to lessen the pain.

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Fun Factoids of my house :D

[bobdole183.livejournal.com]

The whole Logsdon clan (The Mullers never had this problem) is prone to forgetfulness and idiocy from time-to-time. Being as such, every door in the house has it's own "trick" to getting past it, if for some reason one of us locks it without the key.

I'll not cover the important stuff, but I'll tell you that my room is opened via a butter knife from the kitchen. Credit cards don't work on it, it HAS to be a butter knife. XD

Oh, and chain lubricant works as well, if not better, than 409. Just appreciate that glossy sheen!

[postrophe.livejournal.com]

The downstairs gate serving three apartments in our bldg (including mine) got its deadbolt lock changed by one of the tenants for a self-latching lever-handle model - he thought he was doing us a favor...
...without giving anyone else keys...

[mdlbear]

I usually start by putting a small screwdriver into the little hole in the middle of the knob. But perhaps you tried that first.

Back in the old days you could use a sardine-can opener, but they don't make sardine cans like that anymore. Darn.

[sunruner.livejournal.com]

Most of our door knobs came with a little device similar to a small screw driver/anchovie can opener. We have one on top of various door frames in our house and connected with a strong magnet to a screw head in our linen closet (as I'm not tall enough to reach the top of a door frame)... This works well to unlock any door in our house when the kids lock themselves in. But it does take some work to get it into the right place.

[selkit.livejournal.com]

*Pawspawspaws*

I'm alive and okay, love... new laptop, so I can now keep in touch via Gizmo and Trillian (Once I can remember my T-pro password. >.<)

[chaoswolf]

Gizmo? YAY! *logs on*

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

Chaos,

Remember Murphy's Law. What can go wrong will go wrong.

TTIF