OK, picture the scene:

I walk down the corridore to my office, open the door... and the handle 
snaps off in my hand.

Yes, you heard me correctly. The handle on the door of my office fell off.

Here's the rub: My door never used to shut properly. The latch didn't 
drop into the slot in the door frame, so you could actually open the 
door without turning the handle.

But they fixed that on Tuesday. So now you actually need to turn the 
handle or the door won't open. (I mean, you turn the handle 
instinctively anyway. But now it's mandatory.) The net result is that, 
thanks to the builders fixing my door, I am now locked out of my office.

Stop and think about that for a moment: I'm locked out of my office. I 
have nowhere to sit. No PC to use. Can't get at any of my paperwork, 
tools or spare parts. I'm homeless.

So I wandered into the tearoom. At was at this point I realised I can't 
actually have a cup of tea either - my cup is... in my office. (As is my 
coat, although technically I'm unlikely to have need of that today.)

Everybody else seemed to think this state of affairs was both utterly 
unbelievable and extremely amusing. I was less amused. (!!)

Anyway, by pure fluke, it turns out there is in fact a solution. I have 
a key that opens the locked server room door. In the process of doing 
this, I discovered that if you turn the key the wrong way, instead of 
locking the door, it lifts the latch. And apparently my key is a "master 
key" that opens several other doors as well. (Doesn't that mean all the 
locks are identical??)

Once I figured out that the lock on *my* door rotates in reverse 
direction [because the door opens the opposite way - WTF?], I was able 
to get back inside. I wasn't going to bother with a cup of tea, but I 
felt I needed it!

And now I've drunk the tea, a thought occurs to me: I am now sitting 
inside my office, with a door that nobody except me can open. (Because 
only I and two managers have any actual door keys.) So... basically 
nobody can come into my office to pester me. I'm locked in, and nobody 
can bother me! :-D :-D

Let the surfing begin!!!

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

Post a reply to this message