Pressure Pressure!

by **bumpit** » 4 Oct 2006 21:29

This is a question to all the locksmiths on this site. What was the most pressure or anxiety you have experienced during a call out?

by **seed** » 4 Oct 2006 22:13

I'm curious to hear some replies, as I myself was thinking of a career as a locksmith...

by **Bud Wiser** » 4 Oct 2006 22:19

I think we hobbyists give locksmiths more pressure or anxiety then any customer :lol:

by **Tyler Durden** » 5 Oct 2006 3:56

there was one time when i thought i wasn't going to make it back in time to watch Spooks. i was getting in a right flap!

by **ponsaloti** » 5 Oct 2006 7:04

called out last week to look at problem on plastic front door. on arrival , checked out opperation, every thing works fine. asked customer whats the problem, she said " my husband has a key, please change lock as he is due home any minute". job complete, on to play with a broken mech 5 miles away. half-hour into job,(blood pressure down) phone rings, "can you come back and change euro on back door", hubbys got stuck in traffic. quickest pair of euro changes in history, much quality time spent in bar that night.

by **Bump** » 5 Oct 2006 7:49

ponsaloti wrote:called out last week to look at problem on plastic front door. on arrival , checked out opperation, every thing works fine. asked customer whats the problem, she said " my husband has a key, please change lock as he is due home any minute". job complete, on to play with a broken mech 5 miles away. half-hour into job,(blood pressure down) phone rings, "can you come back and change euro on back door", hubbys got stuck in traffic. quickest pair of euro changes in history, much quality time spent in bar that night.

Dont mind pressure, do mind punch in mouth!

by **Shrub** » 5 Oct 2006 9:57

My first lock out was a mortise lock, and a chubb 110 at that, after messing around for 20 mins with a curtain pick i asked to see the back door, found it had Union 3 lever on it which i got throguh in seconds then the owner got the spare keys from inside the house for the front door,

Other than that i dont particulary feel pressure on a job as i can do it and the customer cant so im one up on them, what i do feel is pee'd off when your doing a lock and the customer is chattering away messing with your tool box asking what various things do, yesterday i took to putting the tools back in the van and simply walking to and from the van for each tool and putting the last one back, i like to be left alone when picking, i dont mind a conversation but people messing with my tools annoys me,

by **kodierer** » 5 Oct 2006 11:40

I hate it when one of my friends that doesn't pick picks up my pickset, and has to ask 20 questions. Some of the questions are so naive I don't even want to answer them. I imagine if I was a locksmith I'd probably have warning sticker:don't touch the tools locksmith bites! Don't know that I'll ever be one though. I've considered it.

by **illusion** » 5 Oct 2006 11:48

Someone picked up my Falle picks whilst in my room recently and started to bend it to the point of 'oh crap!!!'- I jumped up and took the set away from her as fast as possible without seeming to be retarded... Well I forgave her I guess, scared the crud out of me. :lol:

Had it been a guy, it would have been ripped so fast out of their hands to leave friction burns.

by **Schuyler** » 5 Oct 2006 11:57

I am, by no means, a locksmith. But about a week ago a phone person needed to get into a swicthing box (or something to this effect) in our basement. Well, as usual, the owner was the only one with a key and he was no where to be found. (This has happened a couple of times now) But, as this was the weekend, we couldn't even find the person who keeps the spare (maintainance guy)

Anyhow, upon realizing the problem, my manager announces "IT'S OK! THIS KID CAN PICK LOCKS!"

Well, 10 minutes of two guys watching me later I politely gave up on picking a pretty easy padlock, which I have, in fact, managed to open previously.

Yeeesh...

by **Bump** » 5 Oct 2006 12:48

Its a different sport when its for real!

by **Schuyler** » 5 Oct 2006 14:51

Heh, I should make 1 thing very very clear, as a friend got ahold of me re: that last post.

I HAD permission to attempt picking that lock. The permission of the owner of the lock and the business. He's made fun of my for not being able to pick it this time. When we realized we didn't have his key we called him (well, not "we" the manager called him) and asked if he could come in with the key, when he said "no" the manager asked if I could take a crack at it, and he welcomed my efforts. I pick around the office (my practice locks) while I'm doing work and i've used our shop equipment to make picks and cutaways.

My hobby is welcomed and encouraged (if not voraciously teased) in my workplace, so please understand that I wasn't volunteered to "break-in" to something. I was volunteered to solve a problem for the company, with the permission of the owner, which I failed to do

Anyhow, don't pick locks you don't own!/don't have permission from the owner to pick!/that you or the owner rely on!

Hope that clears that up!

by **globallockytoo** » 5 Oct 2006 15:07

Edited by Zeke79 - Keep it clean!

by **UWSDWF** » 5 Oct 2006 15:12

globallockytoo wrote:edited by shrub as zeke missed it lol

say what?

by **illusion** » 5 Oct 2006 15:13

That was a very honest posts there. :lol:

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