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Post by Moose on Dec 25, 2012 20:18:36 GMT
I got a cab back from my parents' earlier (very nice lunch digesting) and as we neared my house I started going through my pockets to check for things I needed .. keys, phone, that sort of thing. Couldn't find my house keys .. NOT good. I asked the guy to pull over and went through everything that I had but could not find them and was just lamenting in despair as to how much a locksmith would cost on Christmas Day when he said cheerfully 'oh don't worry, I can get you into your house in five minutes, I'm good with locks'.
Oh, erm, that's nice!
Happily I then found my keys which had slipped through a hole in the lining of my coat and were on an exciting journey round to the opposite pocket. I suppose it would have saved me a lot of money if I HAD lost them to have this guy break in but am not very reassured to know how easy it is to bust one of these locks..
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Post by tangent on Dec 26, 2012 0:51:04 GMT
Happy Christmas  |
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Post by Moose on Dec 26, 2012 16:26:16 GMT
Still it's not like I've got anything worth stealing
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Post by tangent on Dec 26, 2012 20:11:38 GMT
A cat?
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Post by Moose on Dec 26, 2012 20:55:24 GMT
I doubt that I could give him away  *sweeps Pip up and gives him a huge hug, telling him that he's the most precious thing in the world to HER* |
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Post by Moose on Dec 26, 2012 20:57:12 GMT
omigod. he's oozing turkey |
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Dec 27, 2012 13:22:01 GMT
Nasty stuff turkey ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 27, 2012 18:29:07 GMT
I ate far too much of it on Christmas Day!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 7:45:38 GMT
Frank once had to break into our flat because the key had broken off when he tried to unlock the door. He is good at that as well, but that comes from his work and just knowing a lot about materials etc. We do have burglars here, though and before we lived here, they broke into the cellar, as our neighbours told us.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 31, 2012 8:28:10 GMT
I saw something on TV a while ago where they were investigating the "locksmiths" that turn up at your house, drill a hole in the lock, force it open and replace the lock. They then showed a proper, certified locksmith (panning the camera to one side when they were doing their actual work) and it was remarkable to see how quickly they were opening most locks, without causing any damage.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 31, 2012 11:07:45 GMT
I'm always ( well at least 3 times a year ) slamming the front door behind me and realising I've left the my keys on the sofa. It's a good job my step-daughter only lives 10 minutes walk away and she's got spare keys.
And no sympathy
And a granddaughter who rolls around on the floor laughing at the troubles of her idiot granddad.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 11:09:36 GMT
We have given a set of keys to our friends, just in case.
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Post by tangent on Dec 31, 2012 11:10:39 GMT
We used to have three sets of neighbour's keys for that reason.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 31, 2012 19:14:21 GMT
Three other people have keys to my house, but if I didn't have my phone on me I'd have to walk a long way to get to their houses to talk to them (one set is about 200 miles away). Fortunately, both my front and rear outer doors need to be locked and do not lock themselves so I pretty much have to have my keys to be locked out.  |
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Post by tangent on Dec 31, 2012 19:18:38 GMT
You could still lose your keys.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 31, 2012 19:39:59 GMT
Yes, that is possible, but I can't walk out and lock them in the house at least! |
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Post by Mari on Jan 1, 2013 0:02:51 GMT
locking myself out is pretty simple, breaking in is too. I couldn't do it, but my door doesn't have a proper lock really. it is inside the house though and ismeant more to keep outmy housemates.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 1, 2013 8:30:08 GMT
When I lived in a bed-sit, my landlady had a lock like that on her door. She got locked out a few times and it only took me a few seconds to get in. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 19:55:03 GMT
One of Frank's friends locked himself out two years ago. Frank tried to break in, but he would have had to damage the door, so in the end they called some professional locksmith who was just accross the road.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 1, 2013 21:51:50 GMT
My double-glazed windows all have multiple bolts in the frame which make it very hard to open them without causing a lot of expensive damage. I wouldn't even attempt to break in... that's why I got them- to keep people out! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2013 11:50:10 GMT
Our flat isn't very safe against burglars. But at least it's on the first floor which makes it harder for people to break in.
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Post by Shake on Jan 3, 2013 2:08:55 GMT
I remember climbing up on to the garage of my parents house in order to get into the house via one of my bedroom windows. Getting to the peak of the garage was easy as the back side had a very gentle slope ... however, the window was on the front side, where the slope was more severe. Fortunately, it wasn't too far down that side. Also once had to climb in through a window in my parents room, which was on the first* floor. The window was somewhat blocked by bushes at the time, so they never locked it. I'm pretty sure they have new windows now, though.
*eta: Looking back up at Kaylee's post, I recall that we all don't mean the same thing when we say first floor. To those of us in the States, the first floor is at ground level. In other parts of the world, you'd have to climb a flight of stairs to get to the 'first floor'.
Interesting aside: at college, several of the buildings could be entered from ground level (or the level of a walkway) at the 3rd floor. It was a campus built on the side of hill (technically a river valley, but hilly nonetheless).
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Post by Miisa on Jan 3, 2013 8:11:10 GMT
We effectively have a monopoly here, and all larger apartment blocks and public buildings have locks made by a single company, Abloy. This was great back in the day when you could go to any locksmith's shop and they could make you spare keys while you wait in a multitude of designs and colours (as they all had a large reserve of the identical blank keys), but now they are extra safe and even the keys are made at and monitored by the Abloy company, meaning you need permission from the co-op to make any more keys and then they will order them for you - not directly, mind you, you still have to have an expensive locksmith as a pointless middle-man.
OTOH, the locks are notoriously hard to pick.
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Post by Moose on Jan 4, 2013 1:18:10 GMT
What, you can't just go and get keys cut anywhere?
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Post by Kye on Jan 4, 2013 1:41:35 GMT
Our church locks are Abloys. That means you have to have written permission to get copies made.
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Post by Shake on Jan 4, 2013 2:28:54 GMT
omigod. he's oozing turkey That reminds me that I forgot to pull the one I got from work out of the freezer. Guess I'll have to do that tomorrow. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 12:42:12 GMT
When I say first floor, I mean having to climb stairs.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 4, 2013 19:00:23 GMT
Yeah, the first floor above the ground floor! |
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Post by Kye on Jan 4, 2013 19:37:53 GMT
Here we have the French influence of the Rez-de-chassée which makes it that hearing the second floor be called the first floor is not so very strange to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 7:40:35 GMT
I used to call it the second floor, but then I got to know Frank and began adapting to him when speaking English.
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