He who had the last laugh

Ooh, I certainly believe in karma. I think I’m somehow punished for my mindless and naughty prank on the hubby a couple of days back.

I was having a short break with the kids after the first part of the class today. After assigning them with tasks respectively, I went into the loo for a quick pee. When I was about to go out, the door would not open.

I wrenched and yanked the handle again. Still nothing happened. The door did not budge at all. Feeling a little flustered, I called to the kids. They came to the rescue. Or rather, they attempted the rescue. But all was in vain.

All the pulling, pushing, twisting, banging against the door were much in vain. They yelled for their maid to help out. She came but to no avail, the door remained, locked.

I looked round the toilet and thank heavens, it had a window above my head level. Miraculously, there was a short plastic stool in the toilet. I stood on it and pulled the window open.

The kids, all frantic, said in high pitched voices, “Can you climb through it?”

“Nope, I don’t think my bum bum is small enough to get through,” I replied.

After considering the chances of getting stuck while climbing through the window, I hastily crossed out that option.

Next, the kids passed me my handphone and we called their mom for help. She came back and started hammering the doorknob from the outside. Again, to no success. In the end, she called the locksmith.

It wasn’t that bad actually, except for the fact that I was stuck inside the toilet for about half an hour. The kids even made a cup of coffee for me (Yes, I drank the coffee while sitting on the toilet bowl! Unbelievable!) and they even passed a small battery operated fan to me. I managed to text the hubby and he couldn’t believe that I was stuck in the toilet with a cup of coffee. Weirder and more stupid things had happened, but stuck in the toilet with a cup of coffee?

So, after the whole rescue-out-of-the-toilet ordeal, the hubby came home with a smug smirk on his face, having the last laugh.

Here’s a snapshot of the view from the toilet, where I stood on the plastic stool to peer outside. So pathetic!!!

Tags: silly, toilet