Typhoon
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So I'm a little unnerved... My house keychain broke last night (fortunately I keep the car keys on a separate ring) but the important front door keys went AWOL. I found myself unable to get into my apartment last night. Landlord was not around and it was quite late, so I had no other recourse but to call an emergency locksmith. Now, I ALWAYS lock the deadbolt on my front door, but dang if that smith took more than five seconds to defeat the lock with a simple picking tool. A deadbolt! Yikes.
Talk about getting shaken out of your complacency! I have another set of keys, so I am OK now, but I got a little lesson from the smith about deadbolt locks. Some are really better than others, and I will be replacing that deadbolt real soon (Landlord will just have to deal.) I do have another means of securing the door once I am inside, but I am looking for a way to augment that as well.
So, to top it off, I just had my first gun-related nightmare last night. Yep, some BG was facing me down with a shotgun and I suffered a "Type 4" malfunction. Not a failure to feed, or a stovepipe, or a double feed. It was the scary, unexplained "click" when "bang" should have happened... Didn't sleep so well after that...
At least to my credit, when I woke up (shaking) I remembered in the dream that I did not chamber-check before facing down the BG, although I had the time. I suppose I did actually listen to my instructors once in a while... Just takes a while to sink in.
Morals of the story: Deadbolts are but a single line of defense, and ALWAYS check your weapon. Not only in your nightmares...
Andrea
Talk about getting shaken out of your complacency! I have another set of keys, so I am OK now, but I got a little lesson from the smith about deadbolt locks. Some are really better than others, and I will be replacing that deadbolt real soon (Landlord will just have to deal.) I do have another means of securing the door once I am inside, but I am looking for a way to augment that as well.
So, to top it off, I just had my first gun-related nightmare last night. Yep, some BG was facing me down with a shotgun and I suffered a "Type 4" malfunction. Not a failure to feed, or a stovepipe, or a double feed. It was the scary, unexplained "click" when "bang" should have happened... Didn't sleep so well after that...
At least to my credit, when I woke up (shaking) I remembered in the dream that I did not chamber-check before facing down the BG, although I had the time. I suppose I did actually listen to my instructors once in a while... Just takes a while to sink in.
Morals of the story: Deadbolts are but a single line of defense, and ALWAYS check your weapon. Not only in your nightmares...
Andrea