lock 1, pen 0
In slightly stale news, Kryptonite bike locks are easily unlocked by Bic pens. During the flurry of when this report came out, my bike was locked up and stashed in storage. And I never had a burning desire to move a tangle of heavy objects in order to check the lock for myself.
Fastforward almost a year later when I'm forced to remove my stuff from the levitating storage area due to recently being determined a fire hazard by the law despite any logic that might determine otherwise. The storage shelf occupied space in the stairwell above the inhabited floors of the building that lead to roof access that is now supposedly legally off-limits for humans. Anyway, it was time to unearth my bicycle from storageland.
At the time I stored my bike, it was a brilliant idea to make sure I locked it up nice and tight. I used two U-locks and a chain, which is completely overkill in my currently neighborhood where the kids don't even bother locking up their bikes. During my bike locking, it didn't cross my mind that I would ever lose my keys to the bike locks. Especially after leaving the bike for several years in storage.
Honestly, sometimes I have no real scope of the future and my instant ability to lose and forget things.
After tearing through my apartment, trying to find the key chain with the needed key, I turned into the crying girly-girl hoping that I could will the lock open. Somehow on the train of thought about powertools possibly breaking the lock, or at least cutting the tires off of the lock, I remembered the Bic pen solution*.
The new mission was to find a Bic pen, something that was nearly impossible despite my apartments wide array of pens in cups. I cursed myself for my love affair with the wrong type of pens necessary for the lock springing operation. Until at last I found a pristine Bic pen swiped from a hotel.
Working off the pen's back cap to expose the fresh Bic cylindrical goodness, I tried to exert the graceful effort as seen on the video (contained in the above link) without any luck. I could barely jam the pen in the lock, let alone successfully twist the damn sucker. I tried tips such as sniping the Bic which whilst combined with the twisting, ended up producing a rather sad pen bottom.
I even had the boy try a few rounds with the pen, but was exceptionally futile especially considering I am the one that opens the bottles and jars in this household. After a good bit of yelling in frustration at the lock, the boy did prove his worth, "Would the key be in Place I Never Would've Looked?"
It was smiling sweetly at me with a spot of rust when it was discovered. And my bike was jubilant to be freed from the shackles without any harm.
---
* I must bold because I am unable to make the appropriate soundfx and capture a halo ray of light on a Bic.
Fastforward almost a year later when I'm forced to remove my stuff from the levitating storage area due to recently being determined a fire hazard by the law despite any logic that might determine otherwise. The storage shelf occupied space in the stairwell above the inhabited floors of the building that lead to roof access that is now supposedly legally off-limits for humans. Anyway, it was time to unearth my bicycle from storageland.
At the time I stored my bike, it was a brilliant idea to make sure I locked it up nice and tight. I used two U-locks and a chain, which is completely overkill in my currently neighborhood where the kids don't even bother locking up their bikes. During my bike locking, it didn't cross my mind that I would ever lose my keys to the bike locks. Especially after leaving the bike for several years in storage.
Honestly, sometimes I have no real scope of the future and my instant ability to lose and forget things.
After tearing through my apartment, trying to find the key chain with the needed key, I turned into the crying girly-girl hoping that I could will the lock open. Somehow on the train of thought about powertools possibly breaking the lock, or at least cutting the tires off of the lock, I remembered the Bic pen solution*.
The new mission was to find a Bic pen, something that was nearly impossible despite my apartments wide array of pens in cups. I cursed myself for my love affair with the wrong type of pens necessary for the lock springing operation. Until at last I found a pristine Bic pen swiped from a hotel.
Working off the pen's back cap to expose the fresh Bic cylindrical goodness, I tried to exert the graceful effort as seen on the video (contained in the above link) without any luck. I could barely jam the pen in the lock, let alone successfully twist the damn sucker. I tried tips such as sniping the Bic which whilst combined with the twisting, ended up producing a rather sad pen bottom.
I even had the boy try a few rounds with the pen, but was exceptionally futile especially considering I am the one that opens the bottles and jars in this household. After a good bit of yelling in frustration at the lock, the boy did prove his worth, "Would the key be in Place I Never Would've Looked?"
It was smiling sweetly at me with a spot of rust when it was discovered. And my bike was jubilant to be freed from the shackles without any harm.
---
* I must bold because I am unable to make the appropriate soundfx and capture a halo ray of light on a Bic.
posted by K at
11:19 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home