During our trip to Edinburgh, we stayed in a pretty nice/standard hotel room. Our room was equipped with a safe. It was one of those safes where you determine a pin code, and push some buttons to set it.
Well naturally, Maddie thought the safe was a fun thing to play with. So many buttons to push! Actually, I'm pretty sure she thought it was a microwave. She would put her teddy bear in it, push some buttons, and then ask me why her teddy wasn't getting hot.
Anyway, after a few minutes of playing, somehow Maddie accidentally set a pin, and locked her teddy in the safe. It wouldn't have been too big of an ordeal, except that Ethan thought this might be a good opportunity to teach her consequences to her actions. So he said, "Well Maddie, it looks like you've lost your teddy forever!" Maddie's response to this of course, was much drama and tears. Ethan instantly felt bad about what he had said, and as he consoled her, I called the front desk to send someone up to open the safe.
You'd think that this would be the end to "The Safe Story," but no. Later that night, Ethan said to me, "You know what... I'm going to just set a pin for the safe so this doesn't happen again. 1,2,3,4."
So the next day, Tim decided to play with the safe. (There's something about kids and pushing buttons, I think!) Anyway, he had overheard the pin and was working at opening and closing the safe. Well, somehow, he managed to reset the pin and lock the safe. "It's not a big deal, Ethan," I said, "as long as he didn't put anything into it." Well, he had put something into it... Ethan's book. So, once again, we had to call the front desk to open the safe.
And thankfully, that is the end of the safe story.
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8 months ago
5 comments:
HA!
There HAS to be some physiological preset in kids to push buttons...don't cha' just love it when they do? :oP
Glad everyone/thing got out safe.
(I know...Bah ha ha.)
OMG--this is hilarious. I can completely imagine how traumatizing it was initially for Maddie! And Tim--watch-out! We have to make sure he uses his new rocket scientist skills for good and not evil :) :)
Shoot, I STILL like buttons
Aw. My sister once threw her bottle overboard, and as she retells the story as an adult she says she *knew* it would follow alongside the boat and get there when we did. Which it did not.
We have had that happen. Rachel put her teddy bear in a safe while we were visiting DC a few years ago. That has got to be either a very annoying or a very funny part of the job for the hotel staff!
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