Idiot of the week
This week's award goes to - me! As some of you know I have an epileptic condition, and associated with it I am also mildly dyspraxic. People always say they don't know what it means, but tonight I had a good example. Being last to leave the office, I was about to lock up when I noticed some keys still in the door of one of the cupboards where we keep digital cameras etc. The cupboards have to be locked and the keys put in a small safe. It so happened that I had my personal keys in my hand, with a Radio Netherlands key ring attached. The keys I had to put away had an identical key ring, and I picked those up in the other hand. I walked up to the safe, put the *wrong* set of keys in it, and slammed it shut - or so I thought. I only noticed when I went to lock the office door and realised I still had the key to the cupboard which should have been in the safe. My own keys, including my house keys, the key that opens the safe, and the key that locks the office door, were *inside* the safe! Catch 22.
So, I called my head of department, who for the sake of argument we'll call Katherine, and asked her if she could come back and open the safe with her key. The alternative was to spend the entire Easter weekend at Radio Netherlands. In the meantime, the porter came round with his set of keys, and although he doesn't have a key to that particular safe, he informed me that it wasn't actually locked at all, and opened the door to prove it. By that time, Katherine had arrived. I'd called her back for nothing. Fortunately, being the nice person she is - and about to go on a well-earned holiday, she was in a good mood, and even gave me a lift home!
I'm left wondering whether, even if I ever get the key to heaven, I'll be able to let myself in :-)
9:14:24 PM 
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