Good job it happened to me!
Can you believe it? The girls are away at Nannies house so Mary’s had the opportunity of a lay in and the catch busts on the bathroom door with me the wrong side of it. 20 mins, stuck in the bathroom. It means I’ve been in there over half an hour and I’m never in the bathroom that long in the mornings. There just isnt the time. It’s one of the things they teach you at boarding school. How to get clean quickly without missing bits. To make matters worse my Harry Houdini impression has woken Mary and now I’m going to get a kickin’
However there is a funny moment to this story and I wish I’d have been on the otherside of the door with the video camera. There I am trying to work something into the catch to force it back and I hear from the other side of the door “Stand back - I’ll rush it!”. Now those of you who know my wife will appreciate how ludicrous this actually is. For starters she’s 4′ 9″, just, without heels, an inch shorter and we could get a disability allowance from the government. Appraently if you’re under 4′ 8″ you’re officially a midget! Get that! Also she’s not what you would call Mrs Universe. Gentle is the word commonly used. So the thought of her rushing the door had me in fits.
Finally I managed to get the catch sprung with the aid of the nail cutters and some clever work removing the handle.
It was only later when I was talking to my father-in-law about it that he pointed out that it was a good job it was me and not Mary or one of the girls when I wasn’t here.
There’s obviously a reason I overslept that today and didn’t rush to work.