This weekend I was asked to dogsit. Those of you who know me know how much I absolutely adore dogs (note the sarcasm). This really was the perfect job for me! Actually, Thursday and Friday were fine. The dog was still alive, and life was happy.
But then, on Saturday…
My friend and I went around 8 to let the dog out. The dog was (of course) excited to see us, and we walked outside with her. We played with her a little and she ran around the yard doing her little dog thing. We were getting bored and wanted to get back, so we called the dog to come back inside. I turned the doorknob, and it would not turn. My friend turned the doorknob, still no turn. CRAP.
We tried the front door, but apparently decided to lock that upon entering the house. I could not remember the garage door code for the life of me, but that wouldn’t have been any help anyway because the door from the garage into the house was locked too! Our cell phones were inside. The car keys were inside. EVERYTHING was inside! We did some quick thinking and got a CD out of the car. We broke it in half and used it to try and pick the lock. No such luck. I knocked on the neighbor’s door, but there was no answer. I knocked on another neighbor’s door, still no answer.
I remembered that Mr. and Mrs. R had a key to the house, but had no idea what Mr. and Mrs. R looked like, or where they lived. I started knocking on random people’s doors asking them if they knew. Nobody knew. My favorite response was from a kid about our age when I rang the door bell… “Sorry, no party here tonight!”
Then it started to rain. I was seriously about to cry. Finally I rang on a lady’s door that knew where Mr. and Mrs. R lived. I found their house, and Mr. R was outside. I asked him how he was and he said that he had locked himself out of the house. I don’t know if he was making fun of me, because his wife was inside. But I don’t know how he would have known that I was locked out! Weird.
Anyway, they let us into the house about an hour and a half later. Needless to say, we were extremely relieved. We had been considering our options of sleeping outside with the dog, or breaking a window if we couldn’t find these people!
That’s all for today!
