Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Talk about a door jam!

The most bizarre thing happened tonight! Matt was on his way to taking the trash out (good boy!) and when he got to the door, it wouldn't open!! It was stuck shut! He tried locking and unlocking the door, just to make sure we weren't confused and just trying to open a locked door. ;) He took the doorknob out and the little thingie that goes into the wall was stuck! You know, the part that is supposed to go in the door when you turn the handle to open the door? Matt tried and tried to mess around with it, to see if it would come out, but to no avail. Finally, he got frustrated and just took a hammer to it! Yikes! This was the end result:

Peeping Matt - Peek a Boo!
Good thing we have one of those big, black security doors on the outside to keep us safe from the Boogie Man tonight!!!

***Disclaimer: (Added by Matt) The frustration came after I had to escape out the window to inform the landlord of our predicament. I busted out the hammer when she said that she would get to it sometime tomorrow! Imagine trying to climb over Blake's bed to sneak out the window with all my equipment at the crack of dawn! Plus the cold steel of the hammer felt great in my hand!!!!!

6 comments:

mad white woman said...

way to go matt! i would've done the same thing, especially if the landlord said she'll take care of it tomorrow. NICE ONE!

Kristin said...

Nice handy-work, Matt!

Trenda said...

Oh no! What's going to happen now? Will you guys have to buy a new door or will the manager?

Lindsay said...

The maintenance guy just put a plate over the door. He said that he could have opened the door with a credit card, but that would not have worked. We haven't had to pay for it yet. Maybe she'll try to take it out of our deposit.

Aaron & Sara Warren said...

Um, excuse me, Mrs. Landlord, we're trapped in our apartment and there is a fire blazing.

Landlord: Don't worry about that. The fire will burn the door down for you and then you can get out.

Lindsay said...

Just an update. When we moved they did not charge us for the damage to the door. It was nice that my brother-in-law Taylor made it look a little better.

It is nice to be out of that old apartment. We had hoped to get into a house, but thankfully that fell through because we would be $40,000 upside down since the prices have dropped recently. Everything seemed to be going against us at the time, but someone was just watching out for us. Now we should be able to get into a bigger home for cheaper.