Friday Funnies: Sansi gets himself locked out

JAS Sansi, photographer about town, has been telling me of one of those nightmare moments.

He returned to his car after a picture delivery and, basking in the heat of a warm summer afternoon, removed his jacket and placed it on the front passenger seat along with his camera.

He shut the door and walked around to the driver’s side where he discovered the vehicle had automatically locked itself.

No problem, he thought, and dived into his pocket to retrieve the car keys before realising they were in his jacket pocket on the passenger seat.

The misfortune got worse when it dawned that his mobile phone was also in the car and worse still, his Nikon camera…..and all on full view.

Now, he’s not saying the Jewellery Quarter is rife with crime but the camera could prove tempting to anyone who knows their way around a brick.

Also, his professional insurance does not cover equipment unless it is safely stowed away.

Basically, he couldn’t leave the scene, he didn’t have a phone and his wallet, camera and keys were stuck in the car.

Panic does not begin to explain the situation he found himself in, the only option was to break one of the windows and get it repaired at considerate expense and inconvenience.

However, our man came up with a cunning plan. The vehicle happened to be parked right next to estate agents Maguire Jackson and so looking sheepish and feeling like a right fool, Sansi goes in and asks if he could borrow their phone.

Thankfully, they let him and, resisting the temptation to phone his cousin in India, he rang his wife who thankfully was on lunch break from school but had to find cover for 30 pupils, dash home, grab the spare set of keys and drive over to save the foolish boy.

Which she did.

A lesson learned and could have been a lot worse if there had been a photography assignment to cover.

So, instead of paying for a broken window, all it cost him was dinner for two with his wife and a thank you gift of a tin of biscuits for the deputy headteacher who covered Anji’s class for 45 minutes.

If only the memory card in Sansi’s head was half as impressive as the one in his camera!

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