Sam & Peg's Friday Night Adventure

Friday evening we went for a walk intending to be back at 7 to watch the AFA recommended movie The Jensen Project. When we got home we entered the code in our Garage Door Opener keypad to open the door and go back in. Nothing. Tried several more times, both of us, door didn't move. Since the pad can be kind of temperamental we didn't worry much at first. Checked to see if the power was on by looking in one of the front windows, it was. We don't have a key to our front storm door and, as you can surely guess - it was locked. We borrowed a screwdriver from a neighbor to see if we could get the storm door open and quickly figured out that wouldn't work without destroying the door. Tried the keypad again, no luck. Peg looks at me and says, quite correctly, 'We're locked out of our house!'. That was a news flash for me. She was about ready to call a locksmith but I remembered that the upstairs window wasn't locked. So I checked with the neighbor again to see if they had a ladder. Long story short, I was able to take the screen out and go in through the upstairs window. Needless to say, we missed the movie which by then was a non-event. I now know that the Garage Keypad is battery powered rather than being connected to house power. Apparently it had just enough juice left to close the door before we left on our walk. I have been looking for a moral for this story and I suppose it must be ....................................................................................................................................................................................... Don't make your garage door your only option. Anyway, all's well. Peg has the number for a locksmith in her cell phone and I plan to never lock the Storm door again. Oh yeah, how was the movie?