Mothers wear many hats. Cook, nurse, teacher... you know what I mean. And being a little bit of a Handy Manny won't hurt any mom's resume. I, apparently, need to brush up on this skill. Why? you ask.
Because my two year old is locked in the bathroom.
It all started innocently enough. He finished his peanut butter and jelly
sandwich with about as much jelly on him as in him. Naturally he was sent to the bathroom to wash.
I opened the child latch on the outside and went back to my own
sandwich. Running water...
clank of the soap dispenser... water splashing... door shutting... more water... Wait. The door was shut but
still water running? Something not quite right...
And sure enough, two seconds later I hear "Mom? Mom? Can you open door?"
So I (reluctantly) abandon my sun-dried tomato turkey
sandwich to rescue my son, except it isn't that simple.
The door isn't just shut. Its locked.
Vainly I tried to talk Brett through the steps of unlocking the door. It was a comical
experience, filled with lots of "uh
hu's" and "
yep's" but no results. Cool heads are necessary in such
circumstances so I tried to chill and remember what Daddy did when this happened once before. Oh yeah! Unscrew the door knob!
So I did.
Still no luck. What I failed to comprehend before I tore my door apart is that the locking mechanism won't allow the other side of the doorknob to fall. The bolt in the middle still needs to be popped.
Which of course I cannot figure out how to do. Thankfully Brian is working in the shed a few miles away and is on his way home.
But, like I said. My two year old is locked in the bathroom, happily flushing the toilet over and over because there is no one to stop him.
So I failed the
MacGyver portion of the Mommy test, but at least its not a burning building.