I moved into a new place and decided to change the locks. I phoned the nearest locksmith and he told me I needn't change the locks, he could make new keys. "all you have to do," he said, "is take the locks out and bring them down here. just remove the 3 little screws and pull the locks out." the side door wasn't difficult. I pulled the lock out and put it carefully into I went to the front door and it seemed simple only the front door handle came off and I wonder if he needs the handle too? I put everything into the cardboard box and got into the car and drove down to the locksmith. "are you the guy who phoned?" he asked me. I told him that I was and then he asked, "do you have the key?" I gave him the key and he took it and the locks and the handle and disappeared into his shop. I stood out in the alley behind the place and waited. the only view was the back of a Chevron gas station. I looked at it for quite a while then

I walked over to my car and looked at it for a while I lit a cigarette and walked back. the man had the keys ready. I asked him if he might tell me a little bit about reinstalling "sure," he said, "now this part fits here. doesn't matter which part you stick in here, either end will do." I asked him if either end would do then why did one end have a nodule on it while the other end was flat? "that's a good question," he said, "now this part, these two prongs slip in here, you hold it together against the front of the lock and tighten the 3 screws. also, when you do this make sure the lock is in the locked position." I drove the locks back to my place and I tried the side door first and everything seemed to fit all right, it locked and unlocked, although there was space around the lock and the door itself and it wouldn't slide in flush. I tried the front door I put the handle back on I slipped the parts together.

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I tried to put the lock back in, checking for the slot for the latch tongue and then I had lost one of the 3 screws necessary to fasten the lock I turned on all the lights but it was dark down on the I turned on the front porch light but I still couldn't find I walked naked to the garage and looked in the glove the car and got the flashlight out and came back up on the porch, got down on my knees and flicked it on and it died after about ten seconds. I gathered all the lock parts together and put them in a little I closed the door and turned out all the lights. there was now a large hole in the door where the moonlight came through. I found three chairs and stacked them up against the closed door I went upstairs and got back into bed. I phoned the locksmith and told him that I couldn't manage it and wasn't there somebody he couldand I told him about the 3 screws. I had lost one of them. "you were the guy in the white t-shirt,

weren't you?" he asked. "we'll have a man up there in a I waited until 12 p.m. and then I phoned again and I told him that I was the guy in the white t-shirt and that I had phoned earlier and that I had an important business appointment that afternoon (it was one of the last days of the Oak Tree meet, first post, 12:30 p.m.) and that I could cancel my appointment but I'd certainly prefer not to. "I have another man coming in at 12:15," he said. "we'll have him up there in a couple of the man arrived at 1:05 and I told him there were supposed to be 3 screws and that "nice place you got here," he told me. he picked up the lock and began fitting it together "no, you haven't lost a screw, here it is stuck in the back of the lock." I stood there and watched him slip the lock into the hole in the door. then he pulled the lock out of the door. "you know," he said, "this is a very complicated

lock, it's expensive and more difficult to fit then he jiggled the lock parts and slipped them back into the door. then he pulled the parts out again. "I don't understand it," he said looking at the doorknob. "the doorknob's frozen so I'll have to fix he sat down on the steps and twisted at the door I walked to a table in the other room and sat where I could see him. there was a newspaper there I had already read and I began to read it again. 5 or ten minutes went by and "look, let's just replace every thing...new knob, new lock and I'll pay for everything." "wait," he said, "give me a chance." I read the newspaper some more, I read through the whole front section. then the repairman stood up: "I'll be back, I'm going to have to lubricate he was gone for about twenty minutes and when he came back the doorknob was no longer frozen and he fit the lock parts back in and bolted them home.

then he stuck the key in and it worked. "it works but there's still something wrong here that "it's strange," I said, "I had very little trouble putting the lock in the side door." "you mean," he asked, "that there are two locks?" "yes, didn't someone tell you?"then that's the trouble: let me see the other I showed him the other lock. "it's falling out," I said, "but it works." he told me, "you mixed the parts of the two locks. they are different locks." then he took out both locks rearranged the parts the way they should be put the locks back in and both of them "that'll be fifteen dollars," he said. I thought that was very reasonable and handed him a "damn it," he said, "I don't have any change. don't you have any change?" "no, all I have are twenties." "yes, so I can take it off my income tax." he offered to drive me down to the corner market and and we got into his truck and drove down to the