Grrrr.......

Today is not looking good so far. Today started out with me waking up at at 2 am and not being able to go back to sleep. I was a little sick in the lower regions. It kept me up until almost 5. Then I got awakened at 7 by a customer who really doesn't need me right then and there, but calls me none the less to make sure I know that I have to go fix their front door by 7 or 8 tonight went they actually do need to lock their damn business up. Now why he couldn't have waited until 9 or 10 to call and tell me that I don't know. But he now has pushed me over the edge into foul territory. 

I still have to go out and fix his friggen lock somehow, someway. They have high security locks on their doors. Not even the banks around here have high security locks. They do, they are a super market. Why they have $300 a pop locks on their doors I will never know. As far as I am concerned, some contractor sold those owners a bill of goods that they paid through the nose for.

Each lock has a grand master, a master, and then each door has it's own key. These are all like Assas (or something equally over priced and grandious) which here in Carroll County is pretty obscure. There might be several million in NYC, but here in "we have no crime to speak of" Carroll County, they are unnecessary and total over kill.

I don't even have keyblanks in stock for the obscurity of their locks. Since this is a lock malfunction, I will have to shim the sucker open, tear it apart and try to figure out how to make it function on their existing keys.  If I were a locksmith in NYC this would be a piece of cake since I would probably do 20 locks like this on a daily basis. Here in Carroll County, I do a lot of Schlage and KwikSet and the occasional antique Yale. I have no way to code an Assa, have no idea how to pin one (but I am going to find out how today) and this will probably take me close to 3 hours (the learning curve at work here) and I can't charge them for those hours other than the initial 2 hours you get in a service call. I will end up eyeballing the whole thing and hoping it all works when I put it back together again.

So say a novina for me or something. I am off now to beat my head against their walls in the cold trying to fix their lock.