So I busted my front door and lock up pretty nasty when it seized on me the other day, and my super recommended a neighbor and locksmith in the building. Is it paranoia or common sense that I'd rather not call someone near me to possibly have a copy of my keys when I have two little girls and the dude is an unknown to me? My super's following up and I'm just buying time until a highly rated yelp kindly old locksmith can make his way out here.. again, dick move or self preservation?
Locksmith: I'm not paranoid, am I?
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Umm, he can just pick your lock anyway no matter who you use.
Edit: As long as he is licensed and insured you are good to go. But there is a reason you call locksmiths when you are locked out, they don't need keys.
Edit: As long as he is licensed and insured you are good to go. But there is a reason you call locksmiths when you are locked out, they don't need keys.
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Valid, just seems like less of a chance for a spur of the moment "i'm drunk and he has a nice 4k 65 incher and they've been on vacation..." sorta thing from happening.. it's silly, but i got a dope deal from someone a few town overs, less chance of gossip about how messy our house is (our 3 year old is a beast, i walk out of the room for 5 minutes and boom - toilet paper fiesta)
Our coops's insane and insists it be done by a licensed person. I'd do it, it just needs a new mortice and some trim replaced
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Bathroom.. Badly. And I thought it would have busted the molding, not the steel door
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it's not paranoia if they're out to get you
imho mild paranoia is the safest way to live, and therefore the best
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Front door to the apartment's lock seized and I had to really go to the bathroom, car a few blocks away and I wasn't thinking straight. thought it was going to be a quick pop, it did more damage than expected.
You could look at it another way, that if you have a similar issue arise, you have someone nearby that could get you into the apartment without having to bust it down. Same with your daughters, maybe they'd be locked out and need to get in.
Actually, wouldn't the apartment itself have a set of keys to get in? Considering the amount of landlords being caught entering tenants places (without proper notice, and some of them were doing all sorts of crazy shit, stealing, putting in video equipment, think one was caught taking women into their tenant's bedroom and having sex with them), I'd probably be more worried about that.
Guess it'd depend, as there's also stories of sleazy locksmiths (wasn't it NYC where it was known to not to call locksmiths - basically you want to just deal with it and go during business hours and just say you'd like to get locks changed - as there were a lot of instances where they'd send someone out, and then say it was like obscenely higher price, and they'd pretty much outright threaten that if you don't pony up that well they have the keys and know where you live).
Actually, wouldn't the apartment itself have a set of keys to get in? Considering the amount of landlords being caught entering tenants places (without proper notice, and some of them were doing all sorts of crazy shit, stealing, putting in video equipment, think one was caught taking women into their tenant's bedroom and having sex with them), I'd probably be more worried about that.
Guess it'd depend, as there's also stories of sleazy locksmiths (wasn't it NYC where it was known to not to call locksmiths - basically you want to just deal with it and go during business hours and just say you'd like to get locks changed - as there were a lot of instances where they'd send someone out, and then say it was like obscenely higher price, and they'd pretty much outright threaten that if you don't pony up that well they have the keys and know where you live).
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You know there are places to live where paranoia is unnecessary, right? We'll tiptoe pass the whole 'hiring an outside lock Smith versus the one in the building' level of paranoia being labeled as "mild."
While some shady assholes might have been/are still pulling schemes like that I still resort back to the fact that locksmiths don't need keys to get into your house. If they needed a key they wouldn't be a locksmith.
And it sounds like the OP kicked in his front door, not the bathroom door, because he was prairie dogging.
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No, a turtlehead can be worse because part of a log comes out and stays out requiring precise control of the sphincter muscles to keep the rest in while not cutting off the piece already out.
A prairie dog is when a turd starts popping out but you are able to get it back in, it keeps doing this until you either make it to the bathroom or it passes the point of no return and you need a new pair of undies. Kind of like a prairie dog sticking his head above ground and then going back in.
Edit: If he had a turtlehead then no way he could have kicked down the door while applying the precise muscle control necessary so that is why I went with prairie dogging.
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