the locks work!

Last week I had one of those bizarre, comedy of errors-experiences that I see happen to silly characters on TV. The kind you can laugh at. After the fact.

The situation: I locked myself out of the house. Not a huge deal, I've done that before. Except this time I managed to lock Rosie INside the house. Luckily one of the blinds were drawn in the family room so I could see Rosie and keep an eye on her. Rosie didn't have a care in the world and seemed amused to talk to me through a window.

I do have faith that, given time, Rosie and I would have figured out a way to open a door. It was actually quite amazing to watch Rosie respond to my requests like she understands what I'm saying....cause she DOES understand what I'm saying!

Plan A: I saw my purse sitting on the couch, the very purse that housed my keys. The plan was to get Rosie to take out the keys and slide it through the mail slot in the living room. Easy enough! Unfortunately, the purse was tucked next to a pillow in such a way that Rosie seems to see everything BUT the purse.

Onto plan B. The problem (among the most obvious, which was that I didn't have a key to the house) was that the dead bolt was locked on the side door, and Rosie's too short to reach it. So I tried to lure Rosie into the front room to unlock the front doorknob. I had a great plan: playing Mail! I called to her from the mail slot. No response. I walk back to the kitchen/family room and she's up on a chair looking for me out a window. Apparently she had a good view there because she did not want to leave that spot.

Resolution: Our white knight came home! DaddyO luckily was in Livermore (and not Hayward where his school is!) so was able to drive over within 15 minutes. Hooray!

I have to say, I felt I played it pretty cool during the whole fiasco, except when the reality of the situation hit when I had to explain the situation to DaddyO on the phone. But it was all good! If something did happen to Rosie and I had to get in the house, DaddyO just would have come home to a propane tank through the door (no biggie). Luckily it did not resort to that.

Moral to the story: hide a spare key!

Who's really at fault: I blame the show Up All Night (Season 2, Episode 2) for planting the seed.