Gate and Lock

So many things happened on Monday and i need another entry to complete it......hahahah

At 6.35pm, Jamesy, Shingy, Norm Norm, JH & me were preparing to leave church grounds (we were the last to leave btw). But i was unable to put the padlock and latch the main gate because it was misaligned. The left panel (with the latch) was not in line with the right side. I didnt open the right panel in the morning and so the position didnt change, hence the left side should fit snugly with it. It wasnt so.

Many things went thro my mind. Misalignment was first but someone mentioned perhaps somebody did shift the position of the right panel or gate and so we just shift it up or down and it would align. Clearly it wasnt so and that simple too. No matter how we adjusted, the left panel drooped by about 2 inches. How to lock?????

Lifting up the left panel to reach the same level as the right side was a humongous task. We tried and it was darn heavy!!! And dirty and rusty too!!! We couldnt do it and then Shingy went inside and offered to lock from there. He had this strange orh orh thingy about trying the other side, maybe it would work theory. Dont know where he got this silly idea from coz even if it worked, how in the world would he be able to get out???? Climbed above the gate and cut by the barbed wires? It was super funny coz he simply refused to come back out when i told him the crap idea would flop till i "screamed" at him to "GET OUT".

I was running late for the dinner thingy with Shalom and session and how to leave if i cannot safely lock up the church? It was a really desperate moment and the only solution was to raise up the gate so that i could padlock it temporarily. And so the 4 of them lifted it up one more time while i anchored with the padlock. Thank God i wasnt alone when this happened!

We were filthy, as in our hands, after the lift and struggle and Shingy contributed his cold water to wash us clean. Hee hee.....not with some nagging like "eh, u used so much huh" or "whoa, all my cold water wasted lor."........he filled it up just moments before.

Thank God for them, helping me to lock. And so, i sms Fred about this while on my way to the restaurant. At the dinner conversation, i asked him to help settle this as i would be going to church the next day and wouldnt be able to open the gate because the left panel's weight was literally hung by the padlock that i forced thro.

My "intelligence" was questioned during the conversation as in i didnt position the gate properly to i didnt know how to adjust to i just simply didnt know how to lock. ARGH...... Perhaps i am not smart at all but i definitely didnt lack common sense then. I told him the left panel has sagged and needed to repair the hinge but i guess he was just teasing me that night.......he even asked why didnt i use wonder woman power!!!! Oh man......i wished i had that power too and "weld" the hinge back and voila.......a working gate!

And so Fred went to church and checked out the situation after dinner and he finally agreed with me. On Tues morning, it was discovered someone had tried to open the padlock but failed and half of the key was inside the padlock. Fred called me if i was the one. Oh boy..... how could it be? I couldnt be that dumb not to realise i broke my key????? Nevertheless i checked and it was somebody else. Someone went to church on Mon night after i left. Hmmm......who was that mysterious person????

Poor Michael Long. He spend about 2 hours trying to fix this problem so that i could use church at 2pm. He erh brought the padlock to locksmith and the latter managed to dig out the broken key. Well at least we salvaged the new lock!!

Finally......last night, we found out who was this mysterious one with a broken key.......




William Lee!!!!