These things only happen to me...
Coming home tonight from the Metropolitan Opera, where I am covering some roles in the first act of Tosca, I stuck my key in the front door of the building as usual and opened the door. And the door would not let go of my key. My keys are still hanging there in the door. My only consolations are my extra set of keys with which I was able to enter my apartment and the idea that if I could not remove the keys from the door, no random stranger will be able to do so either. I called the super and he is working on the problem.
This is a problem of Arthurian caliber. I just hope that whomever eventually succeeds in pulling my keys from the lock isn't the right and true king of my building. That would suck.
When I got into my apartment, I grabbed a screwdriver and headed back downstairs to see about taking apart the lock. No dice...while I unscrewed every screw I could find, it would not come off the door and the key stuck fast.
Sigh...
The good news is that I had two interviews today, one for a temp agency and one for a real job. The consensus here at The Jon Blog seems to be that it's perfectly fine for me to take a real job and then quit when I need to take an out of town theatre gig. Okay. I hesitate to do that, because I have such bad karma anyway, but I may give it a try. Is it possible for karma to be so bad as to come full circle and be good again?
Posted by Jere at February 12, 2004 08:59 PM | TrackBackJere, you multi-talented fellow. Loving the blogging. Feel your pain on the keys -- although I would say that's something that could only happen to MOI, so we were separated at birth. Keep working the temp thing and DO be mercenary. That field of battle has no honor, trust me. (David, of Blue Hair fame)
Posted by: David B. at February 14, 2004 12:07 AM