OK, I won’t do
this ever ever again. (Hopefully not!) This is probably the stupidest thing I
have ever done in Germany.
I locked myself
out in our winter garden. This had never
happened before, for no one would think that it could ever happen. We have a
double-door between our living room and winter garden. One of them you can open
it from both sides; the other one, you could open it from inside (the living
room). There are about 10cm gap between two glass doors. (See visual aids below…
alright, pictures)
As usual, I just
wanted to water the plants and check on my birds in the winter garden; then
since it is terribly windy today, both doors slammed SHUT and I was trapped
completely in that 1 Square-meter: without
telephone; there was no one to be seen in the court yard, even if there were,
they could not help me because I put our keys INSIDE the keyhole in our front
door; since there was only 10cm gap between them two, I couldn’t get my hand
through the gap to break the glass of the second door. Then I tried to cut out
pieces of plastic (from ice cream box, which I used to contain sand, and I found
an old scissor in the garden) to poke the crack between the second door and the
door frame, but I couldn’t get it through because there was practically no
space in between: well, I could break the glass of both doors (not sure I could
manage to break both layers and not being injured, it was 1M² tiny place).
OR, I could do
it like a mad man -- without any security, just rip out the mosquito nets from a
window in living room, which is 90° to a window in winter garden, and CLIMB. We
live on the third floor.
The wind was
strong and both window sills are made out of sheer metal. Luckily they weren’t
wet. I could either wait 10 hours without food or bathroom, or I could take a
leap (of faith). I looked out the window: 11 Meters to the ground, gray,
concrete ground! And I don’t fucking like heights. (Maybe I should finally
check out the film Vertigo tonight.)
I reached out
and tore away part of the mosquito nets in front of the window in the living room;
took off my sweat pants (so I was on my under wear), emptied the jacket pocket
(just in case anything in the pocket might surprise me, and I wouldn’t want
surprises hanging at 11-Meter height), got on a chair; got my right foot on the
window sill, then my left food; I reminded myself NOT to look down (but I did!)
; I told myself not to panic because I would soon have time for panicking, so
don’t let any “premature” panic ruin the rest of your life…
I am in.
Now, if you don’t
mind, I am gonna get some food and freak out.
Pic 1: The stupid iron bar that kept me because of the bitchy gravity.
Pic 2: The ripped mosquito net and the windows through which I re-entered.
Pic 3: This is what you see when you look down.
