A Trip to Remember

About a week ago we embarked on a long car journey from Miami, Florida to El Paso, Texas to visit my younger sister and her groom-to-be Keith. I had actually not seen my sister in over 5 years. She had been so busy studying to get her Bachelor’s degree in accounting. The last time I saw her she was still in high school. It was so hard to believe. I had just seen her just a few years back, when she was still a teenager, and all of the sudden she’s about to be a college graduate and a married woman. As I keep having these thoughts we start entering the outskirts of El Paso and decide to stop at a gas station to get something to drink. When I came back to my car I realized I had locked myself out of my car. I asked the security guard a question I never thought I would have to ask: Sir, do you happen to know a 24-hour emergency locksmith service nearby?

Luckily, I was already in El Paso, just right outside of the city. The problem was that it was 1 am and I did not want to call my sister at that time. We had already expected to arrive this late and we had decided to rent a motel room for the night. Once we were well rested we would call my sister the next morning so we could have breakfast together. I called the 24-hour emergency locksmith service in El Paso the guard suggested right away. I have to say, I have never received such a great service from anyone else. Not only did these guys come so fast but they received us with such a great attitude and politeness but they were able to get into my car so quickly. I gave them the pet name “the speedy locksmith men”. I also thought: how can they be so energetic and efficient at this late hour? Whatever energy supplement these guys drink surely works for them, and I was the happiest customer ever!

When My Son Got Locked Out in a Bedroom

One weekend, my family and I went to visit my husband’s aunt in El Paso.  After a few hours playing with the aunt’s dog, my young son got tired, so I put him down for a nap in a spare bedroom, leaving the door partially open behind me.  When I went to check on about 40 minutes later, I discovered that the door was locked.   I called his name but got no response.  I wasn’t sure if he had gotten up and closed the door himself, or if the breeze had slammed it shut.  Either way, we were now in a dangerous situation.   I ran and got my husband to look at the window from outside the house.  It was cracked open, but we were on the second story and his aunt didn’t have a ladder.  Never in my life did I imagine I would have to look for a 24-hour emergency locksmith in El Paso.

We quickly found the phone book and called an emergency locksmith.  My husband’s poor aunt felt so
bad. She didn’t often have kids in the house and didn’t realize that the little privacy lock on the doorknob could cause such a problem.  While we were waiting for the locksmith, we used our phones to look up different ways to open doors with credit cards and bobby pins, but we had no luck.  I guess it’s best to leave these things up to the professionals.  The locksmith only took about 10 minutes to arrive, but at that point, my son had woken up and started crying.  As I spoken soothingly to my son through the door, the locksmith worked quickly and expertly to remove the doorknob.   

Thanks to the great 24-hour emergency locksmith in El Paso, my son was back in my arms in no time.  He provided such a great service that the aunt hired him to come back and replace all of those privacy lock doorknobs in order to avoid scary situations in the future.

My Precious Belongings

People often assume that their valuables such as cash and jewelry could be safe and sound if they are simply stored away in a closet drawer. Unfortunately that is a wrong assumption; your drawer has to be absolutely private whether it be secured with a lock or if you get a safe to protect your items. This becomes an even bigger problem whenever you are sharing a room or apartment because it becomes very difficult to control your valuables without becoming suspicious of your immediate partners. I had a problem with my own roommate in college because items started to go missing, and she was the only other person with access to the room (other than the cleaning lady who even gave me things that she found under my bed or scattered around the floor). I confronted her about it and she confessed the theft and returned my belongings. I requested to be transferred to another building immediately.

At that time, janitorial services were not as developed as they are now across campuses in the United States and you actually had to pay a premium in order to have your room cleaned, this was never a problem because I got along extremely well with our cleaning lady. What was maybe counter-intuitive was that when things got lost, I just knew she would not dare to touch my belongings. Precisely because of the reputation she had gained with me as an honest individual.

All in all, I remember an iPod and a ring being unaccounted for, but those are very portable items and are very prone to get stolen so I was not very surprised when I found out they were stolen (because of their portability). The answer to my dilemma came of course when I transferred to another building and really tested the waters with my new roommate (by getting to know her better). Unfortunately, human nature runs on precedents and I wouldn't take a chance with this one, I contacted a locksmith to install locks on my closets and desk drawers. To this day I can’t remember anything go missing once I transferred. 

Where to Get a Transponder Key

A couple of months ago I lost my transponder key. The first couple of days I thought maybe I had just misplaced it and didn’t give it much thought, plus that way I could carpool with my husband so I didn’t mind not being able to use my car. Every day I would look for the key and I had no luck. I literally looked everywhere: my purse, the bathroom, my room, the office, and nothing. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I could have left it inside the car. After one week of having no car, I decided to call a locksmith.

El Paso Locksmith came in and unlocked the car for me. I looked for the key in there and, to my surprise, it wasn’t there! I really had no idea where that key could be. I stressed out because now I would have to go to a dealership and pay like $200 to get a replacement, which I wasn’t looking forward to. I expressed all these concerns to El Paso Locksmith and they told me they could do it! At first I was a bit skeptical because dealerships always say they are the only ones that can do that and that you should always go to them but I didn’t want to spend so much money.

I decided I would trust El Paso Locksmith to replace my transponder key and they charged me about half of what I would have paid if I had gone to the dealership! I highly recommend everyone that needs a transponder key to go to a locksmith because it is way cheaper!