Ouch!!

Monday afternoon, I finished work and couldn’t believe my luck, not only was the sun shining and….. there’s a space outside the house so I can park up and Hoover out the car at last.

I dashed inside grabbed the car keys and moved her outside the house then I went to get the Hoover ready, When I turned the Hoover on nothing happened so I went back into the house to switch the plug on, only I tripped over the cable and fell spread eagled on the hall floor.  The front door was wide open and I was soooo embarrassed.  After I got my breath back I ventured back out to finish what I started. 

Not the only Goofy!

Tuesday,  one bruised leg later, my husband and I went to B & Q to buy the wall paper for the living room, having filled the trolley with enough paper for the living room AND our bedroom (love nest) we got the till to pay, neither of us had brought any money……… The cashier agreed to put our trolley on one side till we came back to pay, do off we went, jumped in the car and set of home.  Alas, when we got there I no longer had the door key!!

Well,  after searching the car we went back to B & Q but could not find it and it hadn’t been handed in, we left our phone numbers and went home, Billy called a locksmith who quoted £50.00 and would be half an hour getting to us.  Meanwhile, it had started to rain and Billy had to go back to work.  Our next door neighbour took me in and we waited for the locksmith.  We waited and we waited and waited for two hours.

When he arrived with no apology, I must add, he looked at the lock, a five lever mortise lock and said “I’ll go and get my tools”.  On his return he started to unscrew the door handle and after doing one screw he stopped and said it was going to be more money, he wanted £100.00   I got him down to £80.00 but I wasn’t happy at all.  Next the cheeky blighter stopped unscrewing and said “I need to break the lock and put a new one on, it will be £150.00 he also told me to ask my neighbour to lend me the money and I could pay them back…… Well that was it; I told him to sling his hook and rang the company to complain.  The boss said the guy would be suspended and I only hope he meant it!!

Thursday, Ill be blowed, 6pm the telephone rang, it was only

B & Q to tell me my key had been handed in can you Adam and Eve it?  So on his way home last night Billy collected one door key that has been run over and survived, sadly my fairy keyring only has a head and one wing now. But hey, so what!