I'm sure many of you have heard by now the troubles I had in my last week of living in Paris. Having managed to last seven weeks without a single hiccough in my trip I found it hard to breath after this tremendous one. It was Tuesday night and I decided that I wanted to go out thanks to the Cheesy Tuesday weekly withdrawal symptoms I suffer from. (For those of you who don't know Cheesy Tuesdays is a club night in Exeter where they play cheesy music and it is my favourite night out in Essex, so much so that I didn't miss a single cheesies the whole of second term.)
On leaving the flat I realised I no longer had my keys. For the next I don't know how long I tried to contact the landlord who I assumed would have a spare key. I knocked on so many doors including his for an extended of period of time before giving up and calling a locksmith. This was probably the biggest mistake I've ever made. Certainly the most expensive.
The locksmith arrived and he said without a second glance that he had to break the lock to get in. I being tired and foolish and never having heard of a locksmith before that night agreed without thinking. To cut a long story short, because I have dwelled upon that night non-stop for the last week and I really don't want to dwell on it for much longer. I paid 303€ for the forced entry and 1100€ for a new lock. I know it's ridiculous, but I assure you that the lock was a very expensive lock. I looked it up online to check that I wasn't being completely screwed over.
I am liaising with the insurance company currently to see if I can get some of my money back, because as it stands I have managed to spend the entirety of my loan for this term leaving me with ziltch especially as I haven't been paid by PNB Paribas yet for working with them over the summer thanks to the misspelling of my name on the cheques!
Anyway I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Paris and I can't wait to return to the City of Lights. The incident with the lock has taught me valuable vocabulary about locks and DIY in French and as my sister said; "it's about time something went wrong for him."
#Characterbuilding
Just to clarify - I didn't mean this in the spiteful way it sounds on hear. You have been fortunate enough to learn a lot very easily - sometimes you have to learn the hard lesson!
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