Goa – The nightmare

Alright, I finally experienced the travelers nightmare – I was locked out of my room. So let me set the story. My mom had a family friend of ours arrange my stay in Goa. I was given an awesome flat for 400 RS which included a kitchen, a bed, a western shower and toilet and the much needed AC. The only thing missing was a TV!!! I was living in a colony so their were no backpackers rather all permanent Indians. After doing a quick tour of Goa I decided it was time to get out and eat some dinner. After dinner I decided I would head back to my flat (its around 9:30pm now) and call it an early night. To my surprise, when trying to open my door I was unable to get in. It seems that the key and the lock were giving me a lot of problems…….as a result, I called the lady who had rented me the flat and explained the problem. Within 20 mins I had a neighbour helping me and he had called the maintenance guy. Another 20 mins later 2 servants of this lady arrived and concluded that the lock was damaged and that we would have to break the door down. Luckily, my MBA payed dividends right away as I suggested we could save money if we went through the balcony and broke a window. At least if we broke something I could still live in the flat (if we broke the door, I wouldn’t have been able to stay in the flat). Now after some careful planning and thinking we created a homemade ladder made up of tables and chairs and one of the men climbed into the balcony. He then pried open the window and got into the room. There he promptly jimmed the lock and voila, I was back in the room. 3 hrs later I was exhausted. Let’s hope tomorrow is very relaxing.