I am currently in an ongoing struggle with the combination lock that used to be on my little locker in the bathroom. It's not so much a battle of strength as a battle of wits. ( Unfortunately, the lock is winning. )
You probably do need sleep regardless of whether that's causing the lock situation or not...
In any case, I sort of know what you're going through. One time in high school, I totally blanked on what my locker combination was. It wasn't at the beginning of the year or anything, so I'd probably opened the lock hundreds of times before. Also, as you know, my locker and I were like this. [twists index and middle finger around each other] Like THIS. [squeezes fingers harder and shakes hand in your face] In any case, I sat there for a few minutes trying all sorts of different arrangements of numbers and I finally decided on one that I was pretty sure was right. Of course, the lock still didn't open. At that point, I went to the office and told them my locker wouldn't open (of course it wasn't my fault, it was the locker's fault!) and they told me to go to some other office. There, they told me what the combination was (I think it was actually pretty close to what I had settled on as the right one, although obviously they were different) and said they would send some maintenance guy to my locker. Well, once I put in the right combination, of course it opened, so I went about my usual at-locker business and when the maintenance guy came, I just told him I finally got it to open and then I went to lunch.
So that's my story... I don't know how long it might have taken me to remember the combination if I hadn't gone and asked, but I have a feeling I may have ended up in a predicament similar to yours. Of course, I wouldn't have had the luxury of taking the lock off after I got it open to play around with it. Then again, you don't have the luxury of going to some office and asking them what the combination to your lock is. Either way, all of this probably just made you feel worse by revealing that the same sort of thing happened to me. I mean, who wants to be like me?
And actually I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one to just totally forget my locker combination after hundreds of usages. I'm not the only one with a spazzy memory! w00t! But I would *so* like to have an office to go to and ask. I don't think I have the combination written down ANYWHERE so if I can't figure it out I'm pretty much screwed.
Oh, and before I forget, [steals my toothbrush back]
In any case, I sort of know what you're going through. One time in high school, I totally blanked on what my locker combination was. It wasn't at the beginning of the year or anything, so I'd probably opened the lock hundreds of times before. Also, as you know, my locker and I were like this. [twists index and middle finger around each other] Like THIS. [squeezes fingers harder and shakes hand in your face] In any case, I sat there for a few minutes trying all sorts of different arrangements of numbers and I finally decided on one that I was pretty sure was right. Of course, the lock still didn't open. At that point, I went to the office and told them my locker wouldn't open (of course it wasn't my fault, it was the locker's fault!) and they told me to go to some other office. There, they told me what the combination was (I think it was actually pretty close to what I had settled on as the right one, although obviously they were different) and said they would send some maintenance guy to my locker. Well, once I put in the right combination, of course it opened, so I went about my usual at-locker business and when the maintenance guy came, I just told him I finally got it to open and then I went to lunch.
So that's my story... I don't know how long it might have taken me to remember the combination if I hadn't gone and asked, but I have a feeling I may have ended up in a predicament similar to yours. Of course, I wouldn't have had the luxury of taking the lock off after I got it open to play around with it. Then again, you don't have the luxury of going to some office and asking them what the combination to your lock is. Either way, all of this probably just made you feel worse by revealing that the same sort of thing happened to me. I mean, who wants to be like me?
Oh, and before I forget, [steals your toothbrush]
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And actually I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one to just totally forget my locker combination after hundreds of usages. I'm not the only one with a spazzy memory! w00t! But I would *so* like to have an office to go to and ask. I don't think I have the combination written down ANYWHERE so if I can't figure it out I'm pretty much screwed.
Oh, and before I forget, [steals my toothbrush back]
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