My wife and I had a bit of fight last night. So that
resulted us exchanging cold glances when went about our errands this morning
before she left for office. Now I drop her by my car to her shuttle stop every
day and come back, get ready and then leave for work. Now today just when we
reached our car she announced ‘Oh! I forgot my set of keys!’ Now generally we’ve
two set of locks – a Godrej one and the door-inbuilt lock. I was pretty sure
that I locked only the Godrej one before leaving (I usually do that when I go
to drop her) and gave her the big key to unlock the door when she comes back (I
was going to be late today from work as I have a call till 9:30 and she
generally reaches by 7). To my horror when I came back after dropping her I realized
I have locked the in-built door too!
That means I was locked out of my home with no
water/food/shelter and only my wallet (as I have my DL on that) and NO mobile
phone! Just in case if you are wondering why I wasn’t not carrying my cell? The
answer is generally dropping her at her stop is 10-15 minutes errand I usually
don’t carry my cell with me then (I know I should though).
Panicked, I went to the guard to make a call to my wife. The
guard lent me his personal cell phone and I called my wife. We both panicked
for some time not knowing what to do and screamed at each other. We both
started thinking what should we do next, I asked her to send a peon with the
key and I asked the guard for the number of key maker. The guard looked around
in his register and pointed at three contacts. Two of them were switched off
and finally one responded. He took another 30 minutes to come and after much
drama with hammer and chisel the door opened. I ran like a madman and logged in
to my laptop to check whether any important call got scheduled meanwhile or if
I had missed any reminder. Thankfully everything was alright and my wife’s set
of keys were lying at our table. I ended paying a hefty sum to the key-maker
for this instant duplicate key. At this point the peon from my wife’s office
also arrived with the key that I had given her this morning.
Now I have 3 set of keys, my wife has none and I’m seriously
late for office J
