Thirsty and Locked Out!

Warning: FUNNY STORY

 

There is never a dull moment here in Mexico! So this Friday I was really looking forward to coming home taking a nap, going for a run, and then we were going to go out for one of our friend’s birthdays. What really happened was I came home, took a 2 hour nap and when I got up I decided that I didn’t want to go running – this is the first time since I’ve been here that I have talked myself out of my running routine. So, instead I made dinner. While making dinner I decided it was beer-thirty so I went to open a delicious Mexican Christmas beer, but there was a problem … I have no church key! 

I successful opened it with the drawer handle last time, but this time it was NOT working! So after many attempts I tried using a lighter. Now I know people have done this before but I’ve never actually seen how. Turns out I had no idea what I was doing and I cut my finger.

You can barely see it but it's in one of those places where I keep hitting it

So after I tried to stab it open and failed I gave up on having beer with dinner. After dinner I decided that I should walk down to the mall and get a bottle opener so I could enjoy my beverage and besides I needed cash anyway.

Here's the top after many attempts to get it open

I have two locks on my door, the bottom one is a push in the button lock and the top one is a deadbolt you have to use the key in on both sides. My routine is to push the bottom lock and stick my keys in the top deadbolt on the other side.

Normally this is how my keys are, and when I lock it I stick the top part in the other side. For some reason I was not thinking and this is what I did and then shut the door on the other side.

For some reason I was not thinking and I stuck them in the backside of the door after I had pushed in the button. It was one of those situations where as your pulling the door closed you think NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I had locked myself out… all because I was thirsty!

¡¡¡¡¡¡NOOOOO!!!!

After a moment of panicking and thinking what the hell do I do now; I called Maya who always knows what to do. She said she would call Beto to find out and I figured I’d better start the school call tree because last time it took another girl down here a super long time to get a hold of anyone. So on my walk to the mall I call Jeff Lewis (yes, that’s his real name) and he said he would call my HR lady and they would get a locksmith out to me ASAP. At this point I really needed that beer!

I continue into the mall to get cash AND A BOTTLE OPENER and to my surprise when I got to the ATM it tells me that I have to contact my bank. So I try another ATM, same thing. I know I had money in there because after school my card got declined at the Oxxo when I was buying my delicious weekly Friday treat so when I got home I checked my account and I definitely had money in there! So great… now I have NO money and no way to buy a bottle opener!

So I call Maya again… this time to ask her to bring me money and something to drink! At this point all I could do was tell myself I can cry or just laugh at this no good, very bad, horrible situation! I chose to laugh! When I got back to my apartment, my neighbor Jordan was home, so I sat at his house and finally had a drink while I waited for Maya and Beto to come with money and support. I really have the best friends down here! Plus Maya gave me an allowance for the weekend so I at least had some cash on me. I had to make very wise buying decisions.

All because I didn't have these!!

So I finally went and bought a church key

And I finally had my beer! I was no longer thirsty!!

All in all it was a sucky thing, but it worked out the best it could because they locksmith was actually on time… something that doesn’t happen often down here!

Today I got my bankcard fixed, thanks to Maya translating for me. AND I made an extra set of keys for Maya just incase I have a stupid moment again.

On a completely random note, sometimes my cooking skills amaze me and this is something I made for dinner the other week. Looks good, no?  

Don't worry folk I'll be home in 11 days!! But knowing me at least a couple more interesting things are going to happen before I make the trip back!  ;)