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wildtoad
Explorer II
Jul 13, 2014

Locked Out!

I knew today was going to be interesting from the start. First and totally unrelated to RVing my wife comes into the bedroom late last night and demands I get up RIGHT NOW as there is a snake in the bathroom. So I do as she says and take a look and sure enough a 4 foot black snake has decided to check out the place. I get a broom and catch the guy and take him outside, and go back to bed. I spend most of the night trying to think of from where he could have come in. No idea yet.

Well, the next morning while taking some articles out to the MH for a week at the lake, I find the door will not open. We don't lock it while in the drive way so I know it isn't locked but I try the keys anyway. No luck. All the windows are locked down, I thought about removing the hinge pins but find that to be a more than I wanted to try. So instead I drill through a window frame enough to get at the window lock and voila I'm in. I end up having to take the door lock mechanism apart (a good bit of swearing) where I find the spring loaded latch has broken in the closed position.

So, it's off to Camping World for a new door lock and hope they have one that fits and in stock so we can make it to the lake in the morning.

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