GRAR I'm Stupid

k.

So I was talking to my dad a few days ago online, and I said "nothing completely out of the blue has come up yet." And his response was "That's great that you haven't had anything totaly stange yet! It will happen!!!"

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I took that as an omen.

So this morning I got ready to go to the store to do my weekly shopping. I get all my stuff together and race out because the bus is coming soon. I lock and close the door to my room, and then remember.........."I don't have my keys."

FUCK

So here I am in the hallway, with my backpack and wallet, and no keys. Luckily I didn't leave the whole building because its raining outside and I really would have been SOL.

My first thought is, roommate. But alas, he's at church. Then my thought was, LANDLORD. He's in Montreal, and the phone # to reach him is on a post-it note, INSIDE MY ROOM.

I hate topology.

So now I start going McGyver on the lock. I've seen two ways to open doors: a credit card slid inside the door jam, and picking the lock with a paperclip.

The credit card thing doesn't work worth shit. Even though the bolt was facing with the slanted part OUT, I still couldn't get a card that was strong enough to push the bolt in. Don't worry, I used inconsequential cards like my Dave&Buster's card. All my credit cards are intact. :p

So, the next idea, picking the lock with a paperclip. I've seen it done before, and so I thought I'd give it a try. I found one of those large paperclips hanging around the apartment, bent it out of shape, and went to work on the lock. Now, I did have my leatherman, it was in my backpack, so I used one of the tools to hold the lock and turn it, and the function of the paperclip was to push the pins up.

Didn't work.
Take clip out, bend it up a little. Put it back in.
Didn't work.
Repeat.
Didn't work.
Repeat.
etc etc.
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Two hours later, I'm sitting on the couch waiting for the landlord to get back. At that point I thought, "wthell, just put the clip in, and wrestle it around. The lock is a strong one, it can deal with it."

So I bend the clip up a bit, put it in, start shaking it around, turned the leatherman and

*CLICK*

I fell over into my room.