Bad Day, looking to vent

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Kathryn" <kcawte at k...> wrote:
>I live in a first floor flat over a shop. There is a main door from
> the street which is kept locked and can only be opened from the 
inside or
> the outside with a key. 

This seems crackers.  I guess you aren't allowed to change it to a 
lock you can open *without* a key from the inside (I remember your 
managing agents only too well: uncontactable, unhelpful, penny-
pinching and prone to adding large unexplained sums to the service 
charge bill), since the Fire Brigade's solution effectively takes 
away the security of having a lock at all.

The one time we locked ourselves out we were disorganised enough to 
leave the bathroom window open too.  We were too large to get in but 
borrowed a ladder and heaved James in with instructions to go and 
open the front door.  Since he was three at the time this was a 
moderately high risk strategy, but it worked after a few anxious 
moments.

OTOH, the 'I can see the car keys on the front seat but the door's 
locked' scenario is always good for a laugh on a family day out.

David