Yesterday night I discovered another of my hidden talents: opening doors.
And I do mean, literally, opening doors.
And this is not the first time that I evinced a talent for opening problematic doors.
Back in 2003-2004, when I lived in a 60-girl coop house in Berkeley, I was known in my house as the GO-TO person for problems related to being locked out of rooms. It was typical that sometimes people left their rooms without bring their keys and then locked themselves out. When the person in charge of the master key wasn’t present, I would be called upon to open the doors for them. How? Well, back then I discovered a way to open locked doors with cards. So I would swipe the card in a specific way to open the lock. It always worked. And I did it many times for my housemates.
But back to the present day.
Yesterday night when I came back home, my friend I discovered that the front door locked had been destroyed (meaning that some component inside got jammed). As my friend decided to use the backdoor, I said, “Stop. I think I know of a way.” Then in one swift movement, I placed my foot on one side of the door, and using my opposite arm, yanked the door out. Viola! It opened.
Today, as I came back home again, another girl was locked out at the front door due to this jammed key lock. I demonstrated my prowess again:
Girl: “The key is locked. I got my friend to come down to open for us.”
Me: “Wait… I got a trick.” Then I looked back behind us to see if anybody is watching (for security purpose). Then with another one swift movement, I yanked open the door, to the surprise of the girl (funny thing was, she had the same surprise look as my friend who looked on yesterday).
Viola!
Call the Anna-hotline whenever you are locked out of your house and I’ll come to your rescue.
P.S. Perhaps this door-opening ability of mine signify something else about me — I don’t let things get in my way! If you get in my way, I’ll find ways to crawl through!
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