What i am going to narrate is a real life incident that happened today evening.
I live in a 5 room kitchen independent house in a quiet neighborhood of Quelimane. My house boy cum cook and guard stay in the outhouse in the same compound. Today, being a Saturday I work till noon. I got back home from office, polished off the delicious lunch and preceded to my room for a siesta. I watched a French Open tennis match for a while and then put off the television to take a nap. An hour later i woke up. I walked out of my room to wash my face in the bathroom. On the way, i unknowingly pulled the door of my room.
Wiping my face I walked back to my room to find the door shut. Following the force of habit my hand reached out to the keyhole where there should have been a key - Yeah, i said "There should have been a key." I looked down at the floor to see if the key had fallen down somewhere. On seeing no key it hit me - boss, the key is inside the room and you are outside. (An interesting point about the 5 rooms is that mine is the only room, the door of which, locks automatically on closing and it then needs a key to open. And there is no duplicate key - i came to know about this today)
I walked to the outhouse and called out to Mauricio (my cook!!) only to find that he had gone to the market. I looked towards the guards room, only to see it locked. That reminded me, my guard too had gone on leave just yesterday. "Wonderful", i thought to myself. I went back to my room and tugged at the door hoping that some miracle would open the door. For a moment i wondered i should do. I could not even call anybody since my phone was in the room. I walked out of the house to the window of my room. Two of the three windows were half open with a latch holding it to the frame.
I managed to open the outer window only to find that the inner window was shut. With a groan, i pushed it and to my surprise it was not latched. (This window is normally latch.) I peeked through the window wondering how i could open the door. I thought i would put a long stick through the window and open the door from the inside. I went around the house and located a 6 foot wooden stick and the mop (which Mauricio uses to mop the floor). I tied the two together and was just about to put it through the window when my eyes fell upon the table, which i had moved just yesterday, close to the window and my bunch of keys lying on it. With a 'thank you' on my lips i grabbed the keys through the window, picked up a coke from the fridge, got back into my room and with a smile on my face, started watching the IPL second semi-final.
Well well... So this is the situation i found myself in. A sleepy, sweet little boy (that's me!!) in shorts and a T-shirt locked out of his room in which lies the room key, specs, mobile phone, land line - and in the background all i could hear was the sound of the AC and some commentary on the TV. Inspite of all this, i was able to get my key, through the outer window (which was open by chance) and through the inner window (which again was unlatched, but should have been latched). The key was lying on a table which, just yesterday, i had moved near the window.
I don't think i could get luckier than this...
On the other hand, if the outer window was not open and the inner window was not open and the table was not near the window and the keys were not on the table... For sure, my room would have needed a new door...
I live in a 5 room kitchen independent house in a quiet neighborhood of Quelimane. My house boy cum cook and guard stay in the outhouse in the same compound. Today, being a Saturday I work till noon. I got back home from office, polished off the delicious lunch and preceded to my room for a siesta. I watched a French Open tennis match for a while and then put off the television to take a nap. An hour later i woke up. I walked out of my room to wash my face in the bathroom. On the way, i unknowingly pulled the door of my room.
Wiping my face I walked back to my room to find the door shut. Following the force of habit my hand reached out to the keyhole where there should have been a key - Yeah, i said "There should have been a key." I looked down at the floor to see if the key had fallen down somewhere. On seeing no key it hit me - boss, the key is inside the room and you are outside. (An interesting point about the 5 rooms is that mine is the only room, the door of which, locks automatically on closing and it then needs a key to open. And there is no duplicate key - i came to know about this today)
I walked to the outhouse and called out to Mauricio (my cook!!) only to find that he had gone to the market. I looked towards the guards room, only to see it locked. That reminded me, my guard too had gone on leave just yesterday. "Wonderful", i thought to myself. I went back to my room and tugged at the door hoping that some miracle would open the door. For a moment i wondered i should do. I could not even call anybody since my phone was in the room. I walked out of the house to the window of my room. Two of the three windows were half open with a latch holding it to the frame.
I managed to open the outer window only to find that the inner window was shut. With a groan, i pushed it and to my surprise it was not latched. (This window is normally latch.) I peeked through the window wondering how i could open the door. I thought i would put a long stick through the window and open the door from the inside. I went around the house and located a 6 foot wooden stick and the mop (which Mauricio uses to mop the floor). I tied the two together and was just about to put it through the window when my eyes fell upon the table, which i had moved just yesterday, close to the window and my bunch of keys lying on it. With a 'thank you' on my lips i grabbed the keys through the window, picked up a coke from the fridge, got back into my room and with a smile on my face, started watching the IPL second semi-final.
Well well... So this is the situation i found myself in. A sleepy, sweet little boy (that's me!!) in shorts and a T-shirt locked out of his room in which lies the room key, specs, mobile phone, land line - and in the background all i could hear was the sound of the AC and some commentary on the TV. Inspite of all this, i was able to get my key, through the outer window (which was open by chance) and through the inner window (which again was unlatched, but should have been latched). The key was lying on a table which, just yesterday, i had moved near the window.
I don't think i could get luckier than this...
On the other hand, if the outer window was not open and the inner window was not open and the table was not near the window and the keys were not on the table... For sure, my room would have needed a new door...
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