The biggest problem that we have faced with living and working in the new house is that we only had one key. I needed a key to get in because I live there. Shammi needs a key because he needs to come in to cook when I’m at KLB. Rajinder, another GSC employee, and Atul need a key so that they can let in the plumber, electrician and telephone guy to do work when I’m out. Since I’ve moved in, it’s been a barrage of telephone calls back and forth between four or five people trying to get the key for their own purposes. We needed more keys.
That’s easier said than done. Principal Ramdev has been trying to help me out by finding a guy who can copy keys, but we keep running into roadblocks. For example, one guy that we went to said that he only will copy keys if we can also bring him the lock, so he knows that he’s not making a key so that somebody can steal something. We didn’t want to remove the locking mechanism from the door and drive it across town, so that was not really a good option. Also, since other people keep using the key, I can’t take it to get copied.
On Saturday, I finally got a day when no people were coming in to do work on the house. Principal Ramdev and I drove to a locksmith that his friend knew. We met a small Sikh man whose name I never got that agreed to make some copies of the key. He gathered his equipment and we drove him to the house.
That’s when the magic happened. All this guy had with him was a small toolbox with several rough-edged files and blank keys. He took a look at my key, then proceeded to make four copies of it while we watched. By hand. This guy was good. For one copy, he didn’t even use a blank. He just happened to have several spare keys that weren’t being used anymore, and he used one that was similar to mine and filed it down until it fit the lock. Again, by hand. The most impressive part was that the copies actually worked better and turned the lock more smoothly than the original. I was extremely impressed.
Yet not all home improvement projects work that way in India. Just take the example of the electrician who came in on Sunday to do a 10-minute fix of one of the outlets. As soon as he got here, the power went out and stayed that way. Kudos to him for staying as long as he did, nearly three hours, just waiting for the power to come back on. In a different way, I was again extremely impressed.
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