More tragic than Romeo & Juliet

....getting locked out of my house, half dressed & barefoot, food on the stove, no cell phone, no neighbors with keys, and hubby more than 5 hours away by car...

I'd thrown on a coverlet after tanning on the balcony, went down to the kitchen to cook some dinner, stepped out on the back stoop to pop the cork from a bottle of bubbly - when suddenly the door slammed behind me!!

Panic!!

Thank God this ladder was still propped along side the house from recent roof repairs. I used it to climb onto the balcony and enter through the open slider. No idea what I would have done without it!!

Ok, not quite as tragic as Shakespeare, but I swear my life flashed before my eyes when that door slammed shut - so much trouble for a bit of bubbly. Took the entire bottle to settle my nerves and sooth my scuffed knees from scrapes against the brick wall.