What happens when you lock the main house door and go to pick up your son and come back 1 hr later and stand in front of the door trying to open the door which the same key with which you had locked it and the door doesn't open with the same key anymore? You feel like a fool and check the keys again and again and try to open the door several times. You start doubting your capabilities and also think that maybe you are standing before a wrong door perhaps.
Yes, all this can really happen and you double check the name on the door and you get sure that the door is very much yours, the key is the right one and still the door is not opening! My 6 year old son is with me with his own ideas of calling our owner in Malaysia to ask him how to open the door! And I am all rattling my brains to find out where did I exactly go wrong?!
Panic! Alert! Help me! Ye kya hua!? Kaise hua?
I sought the help of my kind German neighbor who promptly tried to open the door with the key and then the tools which she thought might help to open the door. We tried for about 10-15 minutes. In vain! Nada!
Then she has an idea to ask a 90 year old neighbor who stays on the ground floor to help us out as he is expert in such situations it seems! So we all go to the ground floor and tell him our situation. He very generously agrees to climb three floors to help us out. He dresses up and gets some sprays and some needles and very slowly climbs up three floors with two of us behind him to help him in case he needs help in climbing. He tries his expertise on my door lock, but the lock won't budge, it won't open. We also raise a doubt if someone tried to sneak in and in the process the lock got damaged. I didn't want to believe it as it is generally very safe here, but you know in such situations, the mind runs amok. The last resort is then to call the emergency key services/locksmith (Schlüsseldienst in German). But we can't call anyone listed on Google because they are fraud many a times and they get access to your house by the key and then they very happily and conveniently loot your house in your absence.
So we try all the possible "reputed" companies for key services and they are either busy or closed or not taking the call. We manage to get in touch with one service agency who tells us that he can come only after an hour. We have no choice, but to wait. We give him our address and wait for him. The elderly gentleman is tired and wants to retire to his home and my neighbor brings him back to his own house. I wait at my neighbor's house along with my son and start counting the minutes. My son is busy with my neighbor's son, shouting and laughing oblivious to the situation in which we are right now. We play some game to kill the time and Tanay has his 'fruit' break.
The specialist comes in early and within 5 minutes, he has opened the door and charged us 95 Euros. My neighbor and I look at each other and wonder what really happened all this while and the door opened in literally 2 minutes. He tells us that no one has tried to break in, much to our relief! The lock would definitely look different if something like that had happened. The specialist told us that there is a problem in the lock and he changes the inside lock to the outside and vice versa, but also tells us that the lock needs to be changed completely (in near future) and there is a danger of we getting locked inside the door sometime. We thank him profusely for coming at this hour where no one would venture out in Germany (7 pm) for regular services. He said it is his job and they are very much there for emergencies! Felt relieved to know that god forbid if something like this happens in future, I am calling this guy straightaway.
After he left, we girls stood discussing how quickly he made 95 Euros in 5 minutes and went away. It was the cost of his expertise and the emergency services which he rendered to us. Nevertheless, we got out of the trouble and got into our house. I was contemplating what if we hadn't found anyone. We would have slept at our neighbor's place and so on.
This incident strengthened my faith in humanity and neighborhood. After all we are social beings, human beings. We should help each other in time of crisis and respect each other as individuals. The elderly gentleman and my neighbor were on their toes all the time till I was "rescued" out of the situation. I am planning to give them a small token of thanks.
God bless them!
Yes, all this can really happen and you double check the name on the door and you get sure that the door is very much yours, the key is the right one and still the door is not opening! My 6 year old son is with me with his own ideas of calling our owner in Malaysia to ask him how to open the door! And I am all rattling my brains to find out where did I exactly go wrong?!
Panic! Alert! Help me! Ye kya hua!? Kaise hua?
I sought the help of my kind German neighbor who promptly tried to open the door with the key and then the tools which she thought might help to open the door. We tried for about 10-15 minutes. In vain! Nada!
Then she has an idea to ask a 90 year old neighbor who stays on the ground floor to help us out as he is expert in such situations it seems! So we all go to the ground floor and tell him our situation. He very generously agrees to climb three floors to help us out. He dresses up and gets some sprays and some needles and very slowly climbs up three floors with two of us behind him to help him in case he needs help in climbing. He tries his expertise on my door lock, but the lock won't budge, it won't open. We also raise a doubt if someone tried to sneak in and in the process the lock got damaged. I didn't want to believe it as it is generally very safe here, but you know in such situations, the mind runs amok. The last resort is then to call the emergency key services/locksmith (Schlüsseldienst in German). But we can't call anyone listed on Google because they are fraud many a times and they get access to your house by the key and then they very happily and conveniently loot your house in your absence.
So we try all the possible "reputed" companies for key services and they are either busy or closed or not taking the call. We manage to get in touch with one service agency who tells us that he can come only after an hour. We have no choice, but to wait. We give him our address and wait for him. The elderly gentleman is tired and wants to retire to his home and my neighbor brings him back to his own house. I wait at my neighbor's house along with my son and start counting the minutes. My son is busy with my neighbor's son, shouting and laughing oblivious to the situation in which we are right now. We play some game to kill the time and Tanay has his 'fruit' break.
The specialist comes in early and within 5 minutes, he has opened the door and charged us 95 Euros. My neighbor and I look at each other and wonder what really happened all this while and the door opened in literally 2 minutes. He tells us that no one has tried to break in, much to our relief! The lock would definitely look different if something like that had happened. The specialist told us that there is a problem in the lock and he changes the inside lock to the outside and vice versa, but also tells us that the lock needs to be changed completely (in near future) and there is a danger of we getting locked inside the door sometime. We thank him profusely for coming at this hour where no one would venture out in Germany (7 pm) for regular services. He said it is his job and they are very much there for emergencies! Felt relieved to know that god forbid if something like this happens in future, I am calling this guy straightaway.
After he left, we girls stood discussing how quickly he made 95 Euros in 5 minutes and went away. It was the cost of his expertise and the emergency services which he rendered to us. Nevertheless, we got out of the trouble and got into our house. I was contemplating what if we hadn't found anyone. We would have slept at our neighbor's place and so on.
This incident strengthened my faith in humanity and neighborhood. After all we are social beings, human beings. We should help each other in time of crisis and respect each other as individuals. The elderly gentleman and my neighbor were on their toes all the time till I was "rescued" out of the situation. I am planning to give them a small token of thanks.
God bless them!
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