The Way is Shut

How was your freezing cold Friday? (Freezing if you are in MN that is. We are talking negative Fahrenheit. Yesterday was COLD!) 

Mine started with my garage door being frozen shut. Just a typical day, I guess. 

Thankfully the apartment maintenance guys were chatting in the parking lot so I pushed down my pride and asked them for help. 

Friends, my door wasn’t just frozen shut. Something inside had broken and even after loosening the door from the ice they still couldn’t get it open. 

Poor Shimmer (my car) was trapped inside a windowless garage. 

The younger of the two guys decided to check in the neighbors garage for a way in. It opened easily and the man proceeded to vault himself over the high wall between the garages, managing to avoid kicking my car as he descended into the darkness and opened the garage door from the inside. 

Oh! Guess what? It wasn’t just the opener that was unresponsive. Some spring or other had also broken so the pathetic door couldn’t even hold itself up. 

It isn’t every day a girl gets to back her car out with two guys manually holding the door open. It’s good to appreciate these things when they happen. 

Now we wait while they get a professional to fix my delinquent door, and meanwhile Shimmer will be experiencing the freezing cold for a few days. Poor Shimmer is not to blame but she will be the one punished. Such is the poetic justice of this unfair world. 

But soon she will be back in her warm garage with, hopefully, a functional door.