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Jennifer Klee's avatar

Sounds like you all had dry toast for a bit! 😘

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Me Write stuff's avatar

Haha

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Wendy Varley's avatar

Yay for Erica! You should have fed that info back to the emergency operators so they have it on their list of lock panic fixes!

Related trivia: I was in the same youth theatre group as Neil Dudgeon who plays DCI John Barnaby in Midsomer Murders. He played Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing. I had such a minor role I can’t remember what it was.

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Me Write stuff's avatar

That is crazy! Brush with stardom and all that…

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áine o’friel's avatar

Great, and very amusing, story. 😂 Thanks for this.

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Francis F's avatar

Omg this was so funny ! I was cracking up , 😆 I will also now remember Erica’s tip if ever I snap a key in a lock 😄

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Faith Liversedge's avatar

And you and Erica are now married?! Great story. I lived in Hammersmith for a while and was aware of Barnes being a bit posh but didn’t realise how posh!

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Me Write stuff's avatar

Oh, it’s dead posh.

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Me Write stuff's avatar

Oh, and no. She bats for the other team.

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Scott Clarke's avatar

This is the exact type of thing you do in your twenties. You no longer have access to your parents' common sense and yet to develop your own common sense.

Thanks for sharing your story.

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Me Write stuff's avatar

I have managed to not do too many other stupid things since.

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Me Write stuff's avatar

Okay, this is a story that needs waaaaaay more detail - you do what with a chicken?

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