23 Jul 2011
One Friday evening,
Two kids playing,
One kid trying to eat the other kid,
One kid running out giggling, banging the door shut,
One door lock released inadvertently,
One kid trapped inside the bedroom with the keys inside,
Two parents puzzled,
One parent giving instructions to the kid to open the lock from the inside,
One parent teaches the kid to slip the key under the door,
Two parents finding out that the key is not of any use,
One lock stuck,
One trapped kid amazingly calm and collected,
One kid giving running commentary from outside,
One parent slips a book under the door,
One parent puts the other kid down,
One kid goes to sleep by herself,
One trapped kid forgetting the situation and lost in the book,
One parent calling every one sundry,
One parent googling how to break lock,
One carpenter promising to come by 10.00AM the next day morning,
One parent asking carpenter to get lost,
Two plumbers arrive,
One hour passes by,
Two more plumbers arrive,
One hopelessly broken key,
One family friend runs outside the community and manages to find two carpenters,
Seven fully grown men breaking the door around the lock,
One kid peacefully sleeping inside,
One kid peacefully sleeping outside.
One house owner needs to be informed about the door.
Weekend has started with a bang, literally.
PS: 9.00PM – 10.00PM, there is so much noise and not one neighbor peeped outside to see what was going on!
20 Responses for "One, Two And A Seven"
wow!! that IS some beginning to the weekend! and hugs to the two very calm and confident girls!
and sigh! about the neighbours. its scary how little we know about each other and worse dont really care about it!
UTBT SAYS: π
OMG.. “One trapped kid forgetting the situation and lost in the book” is it Chula who was locked out? Hugs to her and to the parents..
haven’t you heard about “puyalukku pin amaidhi?” the weekend will be pleasant than expected… have a good sleep now.
is it Meija’s b’day today? I saw it in Lilypie ticker in About page… If yes Happy happy birthday Meija..
UTBT SAYS: No its not Mieja’s birthday. I am just lazy to update the Lilypie ticker.
I should have got you some locks as a gift when you moved back. The ones we can open with hair pin! (Wait! You need me for that! I am good at opening those with hairpin! ) All is well that ends well! (Not for the house owner who lost his door!!)
UTBT SAYS: THANKS HAIRPIN SUNDARI!
Omg!.. I guess it was C inside. Glad to know all is well now.
The first thing we did after we got our house was to make sure we could unlock every room’s door without a key! (Am just not telling guests that ;))
UTBT SAYS: LOL!
Scary UTBT!!! Only Chula can read a book inside with all the hullabaloo happening outside π Glad everything ended well. There was one incident at our home with Lily locking herself in the bathroom. Thankfully she opened it herself after some time. And only in India, the Carpenter would say he’ll be there by 10 AM the next morning in a situation like this. Kudos to the parents for keeping their cool under the given circumstances.
UTBT SAYS: Oh God! child in locked bathroom gives me the scares.
I love how the kids were totally unruffled through the whole incident! Very cool. Which reminds me, I need to go find and label all the keys for the doors in this house!
UTBT SAYS: Done with labels? π
OMG… what adventurous day you had! But I loved it that the kids were calm and these..
One kid goes to sleep by herself,
One trapped kid forgetting the situation and lost in the book,
The kids are amazing, you are too. Now, wish you a totally uneventful weekend π
UTBT SAYS: Had a bad Sat. Sun was relaxing.
What a start to the weekend.
Good thing you had calm and composed locked kid!
UTBT SAYS: Yes, we are wild! We start off by breaking doors π
OMG !!! That is scary… But good to hear that the kids were all calm and composed.
What is more shocking is none of the neighbors came out. I thought everyone minding their business happened in western countries only.Its sad to see India also becoming like that.
UTBT SAYS: Yes scary and I am watching them like a hawk, the min they walk, I go behind them to check if they are closing the door or anything to that effect π
What amazingly cool kids!
UTBT SAYS: Yes ! Proud ainβt I π ))
Scary! Wonder why India changed in these issues. The one I used to is that to peep on neighbors when even there is no noise
UTBT SAYS: Lol! I thought even if not to help, some one will come outside at least to complain.
Gosh! thats so scary!!! Great to know you all remained calm…teach them to open the lock with a hairpin will ya?
UTBT SAYS: Rβs Mom hairpin and all didnβt work. I tired all the paper clip methods and Houdini tricks. This is primitive lock made in the metal age π
OMG! Scary situation.
Thank god the kids kept their cool, otherwise it would have been even more bad. Good C&M.
UTBT SAYS: Yep. New rule of the house. Can close the door, but not fully and absolutely no banging π
Shoot the carpenter! Or on hindsight, he didn’t say, ‘ido vandutten madam’ and land up the next day…
One more reason to thank the books!
UTBT SAYS: Exactly, we knew we canβt expect him, so went looking for an outside carpenter.
Bless them books and bless them children who love reading more than anything.
LOL. Whew! Aren’t you GLAD one trapped inside was so calm and collected? Loved the way you wrote about it.
UTBT SAYS: Absolutely glad. Made it a point I complimented her before I turned a banshee for slamming door games π
Wow – glad you got through this…it is amazing that Chula was so calm inside reading a book. Here if it had been KB he would have brought the roof down with fear/tears and got out that way…but KG would have been cool like this. It happened to KG when she got locked inside the car by mistake when I parked outside my friends house and the music was playing and my friend’s kids got in and they were all laughing/dancing, suddenly they all got out, I was going to let KG out of her car seat but the kids had by mistake locked all the doors when they got out. It was so scary – thank god it was not hot – I would have just broken the car window if so – but since it was a cool day I took my friend’s car and rushed home (5 min) and drove back with the spare key. Through all this madam was totally peaceful talking to the other kids through the locked car! If the same situation had been KB, surely I would have spent some 800 bucks on a broken car window.
UTBT SAYS: Wow! Locked car door. As you said, it was good that it was not a hot day.
Am glad it all turned out well. Kudos to the kid stuck inside for staying calm and composed π
UTBT SAYS: Amen to that!
Yes, I was very casual and even laughed at one point of time. The plumbers thought it was weird!
sounds scary! i really admire the fact that Chula could sit through all this calmly reading a book and then sleep off.
UTBT SAYS: Yes, she woke up the next day and said that she heard βsomeβ noise in her sleep!
Very very scary…we’re just considering disabling the door locks in our new place, after reading this! In my case, elder one would’ve been calm and collected and we parents would’ve been frazzled wondering what mischief younger one was gleefully getting up to!
Your two rock! And what an idiot carpenter. It’s so true…people don’t even bother to look their neighbours in the eye anymore, let alone figure out what a commotion next-door is all about. π
Glad it turned out ok. Hugs!
UTBT SAYS: Thanks Starry. My younger one behind a locked doorβ¦.. I wouldnβt be certain either π
Scary! Amazed and glad that the two managed.. The neighbor next door seems to be 2 miles away these days…. Was in a similar fix when my 2 yr old locked his patti inside the loo! But the watchman was helpful..
Btw, I think I have been here before…??
UTBT SAYS: Yes, they managed. Now we have a good story to tell every one π Have you been here before or sense of deja vu from seeing my name in blog-o-sphere?
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