Yesterday I discovered that I had made an error at work. It was a tiny, one-letter error, but a poorly placed one. It was the kind of thing that was not only embarrassing but could also land me in some hot water.<\/p>\n
I thought that there might still be time to fix the mistake, but just barely. I needed to take care of it immediately, and I needed help from a coworker. Unfortunately, it was was time to pick up Marshall at the bus stop. So I decided that I’d sent out a quick e-mail and then follow it up with a phone call when I got back inside.<\/p>\n
I waited impatiently for the bus. When it finally arrived, I explained the situation to Marshall, and we hurried up the driveway. We got to the door, and it was locked!<\/p>\n
Of course I hadn’t locked it, but somehow it had gotten locked. No one else was home.\u00a0 I didn’t have the keys or a phone on me. I tried all the other doors: locked. The screens on the windows couldn’t be opened from the outside. I tried the keypad that’s supposed to open the garage door, but I couldn’t get the code right. We were locked out, and the clock was ticking, and to make matters worse, it was freezing outside!<\/p>\n
This was the point at which some people would have broken a window. But, though I am crazy most of the time, I’m usually calm in emergencies. I wasn’t going to break a window unless it was a matter of life or death. So I continued to think about ways to get into the house and came up with one last thing to try.<\/p>\n
And it worked! It shouldn’t have, and normally wouldn’t have, but I got lucky. Once we were back inside, I made my phone call and took care of the work-related problem. So I neither froze nor ended up in hot water. But it certainly did make for an interesting afternoon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I discovered that I had made an error at work. It was a tiny, one-letter error, but a poorly placed one. It was the kind of thing that was not only embarrassing but could also land me in some … Continue reading