It’s two-thirty in the morning. Tired and worn down from a double shift at work all you want to do is go home, catch a few winks and get ready to watch the big game with your friends in the afternoon. Driving home you think not only of the comfort of your bed waiting to welcome you to sleep, you also imagine all the fun it will be rooting for your favorite team to win, tossing back a few cold ones and enjoying a perfect Sunday afternoon of football.
Pulling into the driveway is always nice. You eagerly look forward to opening the door, walking in and kicking off your shoes, this is a routine done many a time. Relaxation and slumber wait for you inside, but wait!
As you approach the door and pull your keys toward the entrance you notice something protruding from the lock. “What can this be?” you wonder to yourself as you fidget with the broken pieces of what appears to be some sort of thin metal.
“Oh no” whispers out of your mouth as you remember that the Wilson home next door was broken into. Concern and worry start to overcome you as you think that you have been the latest victim of burglary. In a moment of happiness you can see that an attempt was made to get in but the tools they were using must have snapped inside the lock.
Feeling very lucky that they didn’t gain entry you find that the relief is temporary as the realization that you cannot insert your key into the lock becomes reality. “What can I do? How am I going to get in if this is the only door I can use?”
Frantic you grab your cell phone, but who is going to be awake at this hour? Where can you go or who can help you?
The first number you get to is Dad back on the east coast. Thankfully he wakes up around six in the morning and he always is level headed and knows what to do.
“Son”, he says, “Call the police so they can come and make a report and call a San Diego locksmith.”
“Dad, it is after three in the morning here. I’m sure the police will come but everyone is either asleep or closed.”
“If your favorite drive-thru burger restaurant or multiple grocery and convenience stores are open twenty-four hours a day”, he said, “then you can be certain that a automotive locksmith, for important emergency moments such as this, will be open and available, too.”
Your Dad was correct.
A locksmith’s position, a locksmith’s career is one of help in times of trouble, times of inconvenience, and times of uncertainty.
No one is expecting anything like this to happen to them and they are never happy to welcome moments such as these, but a locksmith knows that they occur, day or night and are there for your. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.
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