EEEEEEP! And ARRRRGH! And PHEW

[simont]

In roughly that order.

At about 3:30 this afternoon I went to the Gallery by way of Argos. Went out of front door, opened car, piled in several things I needed to drop off at the Gallery, drove to Argos, queued for half an hour buying poncy radio-synchronised alarm clock (seems slightly silly to buy one the day after the clocks go back, but it'll be one less thing to hassle me in March). On to Gallery, watched things and played games and in particular introduced hilarityallen to Mao which was fun, finally gave Owen a lift home and then came back here.

To find the one vital thing I'd forgotten to do when I left: shut the front door! It was gapingly wide open and had been so since 3:30. Evidently the number of things I'd been carrying when I walked through it had overfilled my poor little mind and shutting the door dropped out of the other side.

Cue cold sweats and frantic running around to see if anything was missing, to say nothing of a bit of healthy caution in case any putative burglars were still on the premises. But no; apparently nobody at all (hostile or friendly) had so much as noticed, and nothing seems to be missing.

Excuse me while I wibble hysterically for a while…

Comments

[angua.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell!

I thought I was bad when I thought I had burnt the house down the other day :)

*hugs*

[aellia.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the people who live in Malta..all of them seem to got out and leave their doors open!
At the market there are prominent signs
*Thieves will be reported to the parish priest*

Hysterical wibbles perfectly understandable in this country!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yipe! Glad to hear nothing bad came of it.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Eeek not good. I had something like that almost happen to me a couple of years ago, although with the door to our garage-type-thing where I'd turned the lock before the door was full closed so mentally I had locked it (the key had turned after all), but in reality I hadn't. I caught this in my OCD checking, which actually made the checking worse.

These days I have to visualise a triangle where each side is illuminated when I check that I have my keys, that the back door is locked and that the garage door is locked. When the triangle is fully lit I, for want of a better word, force it into my memory so that I don't get half way to work to only have to turn around and come home to check that yes, I really did locks the doors.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

I came back from nursery a few days back to find my keys in the front door displayed for all the world, but still locked!