The Locked Door Mystery

[billdeserthills]

Several times in the last 20 years The Locked Door Mystery has popped up and I wanted to share my latest
experience with it.
Sunday I got a call, the dog sitter locked herself out and being that I don't normally work
sunday, I was offered $200* to go & let her back in, which got me motivated out the door. On arrival, I unlocked the
kwikset privacy handle on the front security door and picked the norton db on the front door, which let her back in.
She says she went out the back door, which had an aluminum/glass commercial door equipped with an Adams Rite
hookbolt, which was securely locked and I got there first, because I knew from my last visit two weeks ago, that the
blonde-haired teenaged doggy sitter's story was not possible, as she needed to unlock the back door to get outside,
which would have left the hookbolt unlocked, you see?

You must have some mystery locked doors?



*I wound up charging $125 because it was enough already

[Devhad]

So what do you think happened? Was the back door a sliding door?

[billdeserthills]

So what do you think happened? Was the back door a sliding door?

The house had a sliding back door, but she said she unlocked the adams rite door, it has hinges
and an A/R hookbolt, which was locked tight when I entered.
You see the impossibility of the
'Locked Door Mystery' now?

[Squelchtone]

um, so maybe it's over my head, but did you just let someone into a house that they don't belong in? How did she get locked out by simply "walking outside" if the back is a hookbold and the front deadbolt was locked as well?

What do *you* think the story is? You said you were already out there 2 weeks before for the same thing? Are you possibly letting an ex girlfriend back into someone's house?

dazed and confused,
Squelchtone

[billdeserthills]

um, so maybe it's over my head, but did you just let someone into a house that they don't belong in? How did she get locked out by simply "walking outside" if the back is a hookbold and the front deadbolt was locked as well?

What do *you* think the story is? You said you were already out there 2 weeks before for the same thing? Are you possibly letting an ex girlfriend back into someone's house?

dazed and confused,
Squelchtone

The owner called me two weeks ago to come and replace the rollers on his roller catches on the front door.
Today he called back and offered me $200 to let the pet sitter back inside, after she locked herself out, she
says "after she unlocked the adams/rite door lock & closed the door" which is the mystery, I'm afraid. Things
that are not possible, but why would she lie? I can't see how it helps her case, and the owner wants to pay anyhow & anyway

You think she is lying? I prefer to think the impossible happened--because there needs to be magic in the world+ she was a blonde

Either that, or she had to be lying and lost her key, and the first thing she did when I unlocked the door was get her key

[Squelchtone]

oh, the owner called and paid, I missed that part, I thought the dog sitter offer up that kind of cash.

[GuB]

Maybe the dog locked the door.

[cledry]

She was lying so that the owner would foot the bill.

[Robotnik]

She was lying so that the owner would foot the bill.

Safe money's on this.

[Devhad]

Or they both were lying (the owner and the sitter) and she had to get in to get something before the owners wife got home and found it.

[jbrint]

I blame ghosts and chalk it up to the locked door mystery. It cannot be explained with definitive proof beyond speculation. So it is by definition a mystery.
While there is probably a logical answer out there somewhere, it is not known.

I have double cylinder Medeco locks on my doors so I assumed a lockout was physically impossible. Not at all, a person who lives with me managed to do just that to herself and only after a very careful interrogation did we solve the mystery. I know where you are coming from Bill and I am not a locksmith.

[billdeserthills]

I had another good 'locked door mystery' job today, my client just finished moving out of the home he was renting and after cleaning everything up, he left the keys
on the kitchen counter and went out the garage door, using the garage door opener to close up. When he arrived today, to meet with the landlord to do the checkout
he found the deadbolts on every door, including the garage door were all locked. All the keys he left on the kitchen counter were still laying there, so someone else
with a key let themselves in, and locked the garage door, then let themselves out

[Robotnik]

I had another good 'locked door mystery' job today, my client just finished moving out of the home he was renting and after cleaning everything up, he left the keys
on the kitchen counter and went out the garage door, using the garage door opener to close up. When he arrived today, to meet with the landlord to do the checkout
he found the deadbolts on every door, including the garage door were all locked. All the keys he left on the kitchen counter were still laying there, so someone else
with a key let themselves in, and locked the garage door, then let themselves out

Which is exactly why I rekeyed our house the day we moved in

[GWiens2001]

I had another good 'locked door mystery' job today, my client just finished moving out of the home he was renting and after cleaning everything up, he left the keys
on the kitchen counter and went out the garage door, using the garage door opener to close up. When he arrived today, to meet with the landlord to do the checkout
he found the deadbolts on every door, including the garage door were all locked. All the keys he left on the kitchen counter were still laying there, so someone else
with a key let themselves in, and locked the garage door, then let themselves out

Which is exactly why I rekeyed our house the day we moved in

Ditto.

Gordon

[kwoswalt99-]

I had another good 'locked door mystery' job today, my client just finished moving out of the home he was renting and after cleaning everything up, he left the keys
on the kitchen counter and went out the garage door, using the garage door opener to close up. When he arrived today, to meet with the landlord to do the checkout
he found the deadbolts on every door, including the garage door were all locked. All the keys he left on the kitchen counter were still laying there, so someone else
with a key let themselves in, and locked the garage door, then let themselves out

Which is exactly why I rekeyed our house the day we moved in

Ditto.

Gordon

You didn't replace them all with Medecos?