Get your money’s worth – interview them while they work to see what makes them tick, or if they have a chink.
If they are willing to chat, tip them well.
When the mechanism is faced the opposite direction you’ll need a wire or coat hanger hook to pop it open.
These days it seems most homes have generic easy-to-open locks for rooms inside the house. At my parents place i can open locked doors with a penny
Most of the locks in my place are like that, but the master bedroom actually has a keyed lock.
I know this. There’s an old joke I like, where the punchline is something like “Knocking the dent out of your car door with one knock: 50¢. Thirty years’ experience in knocking dents out: $199.50.”
I wasn’t complaining, just observing the effect of having £100 disappear with one swift movement. I learnt my lesson, and the next time I locked myself out utilized the aluminium of a beer can for a similar manoeuvre. (It would have been smarter to not lock myself out, but I’m not that smart.)
My partner is a mechanic, and he tells a variation on that story on the reg. Mostly, when someone has spent hours and hours trying to do something it takes him minutes to accomplish. Specifically he tells it when he presents the bill.
One of my art teachers told us a story of… Michelangelo i think? Maybe Da Vinci… where he was on the road traveling and some random guy hounded him for a sketch or portrait. Eventually he relented, whipped up a drawing in seemingly no time and told the guy to pay him his usual fee. The guy balked at the price saying it took him so little time and he told him it was because he’d spent years to be that fast.
I think you can find a good one using the google:
We’re down to the wire here, aren’t we?
Bust it open @beschizza !
wheeling it out today. Gotta pop off that baseboard
You’ve had how long and you’ve yet to pop the baseboard off and pull the safe out.
Your priorities are really screwed up.
So it’s really happening?
So are we here?
Or here?
It’s past Monday in all of the Time Zones I’m familiar with. Even encroaching into Wednesday for parts of the Globe.
SO…
What’s in the safe?
To be fair, he only said he’d call a locksmith.
“Yeah, 24-hour locksmiths?”
“Hi, could you open a safe for me?”
“Anyone trapped inside?”
"Um - no - "
“Nuclear codes? Secret papers which would prevent a disastrous marriage?”
"I - I don’t think - "
“Friday.” click
I don’t smoke, but I kinda covet Daffy’s ashtray.
