Well i definitely have the world's worst luck!!! Yesterday wasn't going too bad until a Y11 failed to turn up for her mock exam, found her wandering at 2pm and ushered her in the finish it! Didn't think no more about the day until i got home and realised i had no key! Drove back to school to look for it, which i couldn't, which is when mild panic set in! Ringing and ringing the flatmates, no one was answering, tried to break in again no luck there so gave up and went to Meadowhall for some retail therapy! Wandering round the shops got a call from one of the flatmates to say that he's got home but can't get in...his key won't turn in the lock! We tried again to break in but it wasn't happening so i rang the landlord, needless to say he wasn't best pleased but there was no need to make it sound like we'd done this on purpose!!!
Whilst he was thinking what to do, i rang a locksmith who said the pin had probably dropped in the lock, quite common as it seems, though the landlord was not willing to pay £118 + VAT for them to gain entry so we had to resort to waiting for him to turn up and have a look at the situation. The lads downstairs were very accommodating and looked after us well, fed and watered!
As the landlord is such a lovely man (sense the sarcasm!) he realised what we were trying to explain to him on the phone and had a genius idea (hmmm!!) of getting up to the patio door and seeing if it was open. So in the piddling down rain he lays a rung on the roof of his car, stands on it and with a mop tries to open the door...it was locked. So his next genius idea was to drive back to Derby to collect the spare keys (yes he is that stupid he didn't think to bring them) and try entering via the flat downstairs.
Almost two hours later he returns, after we had tried to remove the wood he had used to block the door, which turns out was not coming off (clearly the landlord himself did not do that job, it was far too professional), he again tries to get up to the patio door with the idea to try and unlock it, this time with a chair on top of the roof of his car, i honestly thought i was going to have to ring an ambulance, but we did find it very funny! Now if he had listened to me earlier he would have agreed that it wouldn't work as there was a key in the other side of the door! He wasn't amused with the idea of breaking the glass panel in the door but instead at 11.20pm decided the best idea was to kick the door in!!! As i say a lovely man!!! At least we were now in!!!
Now that was all last night...onto today! After no sleep due to the original situation of which the landlord made into an epic...my key that i originally lost was found, the laptop completely died, the science experiment took forever to wait for the results of, we were getting so impatient!!! The kids did everything else they could possibly do and their homework whilst waiting for the damn experiment to give us results!!!! And then had a delightful meeting for two hours after school.
I honestly think i have the worst luck in the world...surely by now I've paid my dues and deserve a dose of good luck...please........
