Closet Lockout

A few years ago, I stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast owned by an acquaintance in El Paso. The old-fashioned room was cozy, with a comfortable bed and a small closet. As I was unpacking a bit before going to bed, I spread out all my cosmetics and toiletries on the dresser, which was adorned with a basket filled with fake flowers. I needed more room so I moved the basket, along with my suitcase, into the closet. I shut the closet door and went to sleep. The next morning I woke up feeling refreshed, but that ease wouldn’t last long. I wanted to put on some clothes for breakfast, but when I tried to open the closet, it wouldn't budge. After a few more attempts, I started worrying that I would have to call a locksmith in El Paso.

I searched frantically around the room for a key to the closet to no avail. Finally, I decided to go downstairs and ask the proprietor for help. When I told her what had happened, she acted like it was no big deal and confidently led me back up to my room. But when we got there, her eyes grew big. “What happened to the flower basket?” She asked. Sheepishly, I explained that it was in the closet. It turned out that the basket contained her only key to that door. I suggested getting some tools and trying to pry open the door ourselves, but she was enamored of the vintage lock and did not want to risk destroying it.

The owner rummaged through some business cards and found the number of a locksmith in El Paso. The locksmith arrived within half an hour, and very soon was able to open the door without damaging the lock. Still in my pajamas and extremely embarrassed, I raced into the closet to get my wallet so I could pay for the inconvenience I had caused. The owner let me foot the bill, but she did ask the locksmith to make her some extra keys!

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I had an important business meeting to go to the other day. I had given myself plenty of time to arrive at the venue where I was supposed to meet my partner at least half hour before the scheduled meeting time. Even though this was a meeting with my business partner, we were still in the baby stages of our startup, which meant that our relationship was still in its premature stages of development. I had dressed in a formal outfit and made sure my car looked clean inside and out to show I was a person who took attention to detail (an important trait of an entrepreneur). What I did not have in place was apparently my own head. I stopped for some coffee on my way to the restaurant and when I came back I realized I had locked myself out of my car. I looked up locksmith services in El Paso right away.

I called Griselda, my business partner, to tell her my embarrassing story. Even though I still had an hour to go before our meeting time, I wanted to report any possible delays with time so she did not wonder about me. I had always thought of Griselda as this super woman who always remained calmed even during chaos. She seemed to have everything together all the time; I would never that something like this would also happen to her. Ironically, when I called her, she confessed that I had just awakened her!

There I was desperately looking for a locksmith service company in El Paso, embarrassed at my mishap, when my “super” business partner had totally forgotten about our meeting! I take this as a lesson to never underestimate oneself, and to never overestimate others, ha! I was so happy I wasn’t the one late. Thanks George!

Locked out of the Office

It was the Monday of a long holiday weekend and most people were on vacation with their families ­– but not me. I had an important appointment with a potential client. I got to my office around 9 o´clock, hoping to spruce things up a bit and make some coffee before the client arrived at 10. I punched my code into the electronic keypad and turned the door handle, but nothing happened. After trying a few more times and continuing to receive the red error light, I called the office manager to find out if she had gotten the code changed without my knowledge. She replied that the electronic lock had been working fine on Friday afternoon when she left. I knew I shouldn’t force the lock, and calling someone to get me in through the emergency exit would be a big production. There was only one thing to do: call a commercial locksmith.

I couldn’t believe this was happening now. Sitting down outside the door, I took advantage of the time waiting for the locksmith to review my notes for the meeting. The locksmith arrived within 15 minutes. Although I was a nervous wreck, he maintained his calm and explained that occasionally these type of electronic locks malfunction. He removed the lock and let me into the office to prepare for my meeting, as he rewired the lock and changed the combination. When he had finished, I checked my watch: ten minutes to 10. I quickly paid the locksmith and ushered him out.

About 15 minutes later the potential client arrived, none the wiser to the near disaster that I had experienced earlier that morning. Thanks to the speedy response and expert work of the commercial locksmith, I was able to follow through with my meeting and close a big business deal that day.

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!