Trapped!

The freakiest thing happened to me this morning; I got locked in my own bathroom! I live alone, so I rarely close the bathroom door all the way, but for some reason I did today. Big mistake.

I had just taken a shower while getting ready for work when I discovered that I was trapped. The handle would spin, but there was no traction, the latch was not moving. I tried leaning on the knob, but didn’t want to break it or the door. I searched for something in the bathroom I could use as a tool. I settled on a pair of scissors from the medicine cabinet.

I tried wedging the scissors in between the door jam and the door. They were too thick. I couldn’t find anything else worthwhile. I couldn’t call for help, because my phone was out in the living room.

Thankfully, there was another exit.

In my bathroom is a door that leads into my walk-in closet. For reasons I was never privy to (although theories abound, among them hydroponic pot growing), the previous resident had put a chain on the door on the closet side, one that I had never bothered removing. When I moved in, I decided that I wasn’t going to use that door, so I piled all sorts of boxes up against it, ostensibly using it as an extra part of the wall.

Deciding that I had no other choice, I pushed against the closet door. After a few moments, the chain broke away from the wall, but I was still getting resistance from the boxes. I pushed again, this time leaning with much more gusto. The boxes began to tumble down, and the door finally opened wide enough for me to squeeze through. I was free!

I stumbled over the collapsed boxes and made my way out of the closet into my bedroom. I immediately checked the bathroom door. It opened! Apparently the problem only exists when trying to open the door from inside the bathroom.

I tried fixing the door knob myself, but it looks like it’s broken beyond repair and will need to be replaced.

Adventures of Mike indeed!