22/03/2024
AN OLD STORY
There was this day when my house was locked because I had defaulted paying rent for a few days back when I was a Fresher in Campus ðŸ˜. The house was managed by a no nonsense mean speaking Caretaker.
She called me and harshly informed me that she was sending a guy to lock my door with a padlock.
'If you are in the house, park and leave before noon. If you are out of your house on errands, don't come back because we would have added another padlock on the door by noon,' she said over the phone.
I did mental calculation. I convinced myself that I was better off locked inside the house than leave to nowhere. I did not have somewhere that I could have crushed while I raised the rent. Plus, I was in introvert, I had enough food in the house. I could manage three, four or five days locked inside the house.
I lied to her that I was not in the house.
At noon, I hid and watched as someone added another ugly padlock on the door. I spent three days locked inside the house. Sad days those ones.
On the third day, I managed to raise the rent and paid it. I cammed the Caretaker and requested her to unlock their padlock from my door. She said she was going to send over the same guy who locked it to unlock it.
I was standing beside my door when the guy pushed his hand inside the padlock's hole to unlock their padlock. Mischievously, I held his hand firmly while he was opening the door to scare him.
What followed was a loud scream of terror. He pulled his hand from the hole and cursed.
He called the Caretaker a moment later, breathing heavily, 'did we lock someone inside the house? Because someone just held my hand from this inside.'
Never heard a man scream out of terror as that guy screamed😂
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