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I AM THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
And also super-dumb, of course. Because this story starts when I locked myself out of my room while making dinner, because I keep forgetting that it stays locked even when you open it from the inside. First thought: there's a spare key hidden outside, I will go get that. At which point the cat got out, which sucked pretty damn hard, but I caught it again after like 15 minutes of begging.
But then! The key didn't work. I have one single key for both the house and my room, but apparently they're set up so that all the keys work on the front door but are then specialized for which room they open, and the spare key is not set up for my room. That also sucked a whole lot.
But you know? I knew where my locked-in-keys WERE. I hang them on the hook on the inside of the door pretty consistently. rocking the door confirmed that they were in place; I could hear them jangling. And there's a really huge gape between the bottom of the floor and my door, big enough to get my hand and wrist through. My first thought was to find a really long stick so I could PUSH the keys off, but i had nothing with my but my pan, cooking utensils, iPod and Nook. I hunted around the house for something long enough, but there wasn't anything.
So I ate my food and regrouped. The crack at the top of the door was more narrow, but you can push on it and bend to wood to widen it a little. And I once managed to get my keys out of my locked car through a crack in the window, using my headphones cord and a hair-pin bent into a hook. And hey! I found a hairpin on the floor.
The string was harder to come by, but there are old Christmas decorations that people are only now taking down, and there was a string of tinsel that I... well, stole and destroyed. But I was probably going to be thrown out anyway and if anyone wants it back I can pay then the 5$ it might have been worth. I picked all the tinsel off and there was a really thin wire underneath. I tied it to my improve hook (after spending a really annoying amount of time untwisting all the wire--it was really thin and tangled like crazy) and got it through the top crack of the door, and then dangled it up and down, up and down, with my ear pressed against the door to listen for the jungle of it hitting my keys so I could locate exactly where they were, where to focus my attention.
And it wasn't quick. The wire snapped at one point and I had to pull it all out and re-tie everything. BUT I GOT THEM. I didn't even hear the keys jingle on that round, but I felt the hook snag, and I pulled really gently so the wire wouldn't snap again, and there was still no jingle but I could tell it was heavier. I pulled it all the way up to the top to make sure the keys were well free from the hook, right up until the wire DID snap, and then there was a jingle and a light thud and I reached under the door and HA. Ha haha haha, I did it! I got them! I am not even annoyed about the lost hour and a half or the cat scare, because I won in the end and I feel so, SO clever right now.
And also super-dumb, of course. Because this story starts when I locked myself out of my room while making dinner, because I keep forgetting that it stays locked even when you open it from the inside. First thought: there's a spare key hidden outside, I will go get that. At which point the cat got out, which sucked pretty damn hard, but I caught it again after like 15 minutes of begging.
But then! The key didn't work. I have one single key for both the house and my room, but apparently they're set up so that all the keys work on the front door but are then specialized for which room they open, and the spare key is not set up for my room. That also sucked a whole lot.
But you know? I knew where my locked-in-keys WERE. I hang them on the hook on the inside of the door pretty consistently. rocking the door confirmed that they were in place; I could hear them jangling. And there's a really huge gape between the bottom of the floor and my door, big enough to get my hand and wrist through. My first thought was to find a really long stick so I could PUSH the keys off, but i had nothing with my but my pan, cooking utensils, iPod and Nook. I hunted around the house for something long enough, but there wasn't anything.
So I ate my food and regrouped. The crack at the top of the door was more narrow, but you can push on it and bend to wood to widen it a little. And I once managed to get my keys out of my locked car through a crack in the window, using my headphones cord and a hair-pin bent into a hook. And hey! I found a hairpin on the floor.
The string was harder to come by, but there are old Christmas decorations that people are only now taking down, and there was a string of tinsel that I... well, stole and destroyed. But I was probably going to be thrown out anyway and if anyone wants it back I can pay then the 5$ it might have been worth. I picked all the tinsel off and there was a really thin wire underneath. I tied it to my improve hook (after spending a really annoying amount of time untwisting all the wire--it was really thin and tangled like crazy) and got it through the top crack of the door, and then dangled it up and down, up and down, with my ear pressed against the door to listen for the jungle of it hitting my keys so I could locate exactly where they were, where to focus my attention.
And it wasn't quick. The wire snapped at one point and I had to pull it all out and re-tie everything. BUT I GOT THEM. I didn't even hear the keys jingle on that round, but I felt the hook snag, and I pulled really gently so the wire wouldn't snap again, and there was still no jingle but I could tell it was heavier. I pulled it all the way up to the top to make sure the keys were well free from the hook, right up until the wire DID snap, and then there was a jingle and a light thud and I reached under the door and HA. Ha haha haha, I did it! I got them! I am not even annoyed about the lost hour and a half or the cat scare, because I won in the end and I feel so, SO clever right now.