I am currently in an ongoing struggle with the combination lock that used to be on my little locker in the bathroom. It's not so much a battle of strength as a battle of wits. ( Unfortunately, the lock is winning. )
That's why I couldn't ever use my locker at school - I couldn't ever remember what the combination was. 35-7-24? 25-34-7? 24-37-5? Something like that. I still don't know. I could never remember it - it would take me about fifty tries every time I tried to open it and halfway through sophomore year I just gave up on it for good.
It's kind of funny that you used to know it and now have no idea, though. Good job! :-D
It's definitely one of those humorous only-happens-to-Andrea things that is also slightly not-humorous, like repeatedly accidentally cutting myself with exacto knives or getting my earring caught in my scarf and almost strangling myself. Seriously, who uses their lock ALL THE TIME and then just randomly forgets it one day?!
Because the scarf was also caught in my backpack strap, so when I went to take my backpack off, my scarf tried to come off, too, but it was attached to my ear via the earrings, so the scarf just tightened itself around my neck instead. Seriously. You can't make this stuff up.
actually... that used to happen to me too. so what i would do is COMPLETELY STOP THINKING ABOUT IT and just kind of try and have my hands do it by memory.
...it sounds kind of nuts but i swear to god it worked.
I think that's how I managed to open it the last couple times even though I still don't know the comb - my hands just did it anyway. Which is fine for that one time, but now I keep thinking about it, so I'm still struggling.
You probably do need sleep regardless of whether that's causing the lock situation or not...
In any case, I sort of know what you're going through. One time in high school, I totally blanked on what my locker combination was. It wasn't at the beginning of the year or anything, so I'd probably opened the lock hundreds of times before. Also, as you know, my locker and I were like this. [twists index and middle finger around each other] Like THIS. [squeezes fingers harder and shakes hand in your face] In any case, I sat there for a few minutes trying all sorts of different arrangements of numbers and I finally decided on one that I was pretty sure was right. Of course, the lock still didn't open. At that point, I went to the office and told them my locker wouldn't open (of course it wasn't my fault, it was the locker's fault!) and they told me to go to some other office. There, they told me what the combination was (I think it was actually pretty close to what I had settled on as the right one, although obviously they were
( ... )
And actually I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one to just totally forget my locker combination after hundreds of usages. I'm not the only one with a spazzy memory! w00t! But I would *so* like to have an office to go to and ask. I don't think I have the combination written down ANYWHERE so if I can't figure it out I'm pretty much screwed.
Oh, and before I forget, [steals my toothbrush back]
I think that locker combinations are particularly easy to forget. I know that, after the first week or so, I would completely forget what the actual numbers in my combination were. This, of course, caused no problem, since the manner of turning the lock was so second-nature to me, but I know I found that, when I made a conscious effort to remember the numbers, or happened to pay more attention to what I was doing, my mind became filled with doubt and I would second-guess myself out of opening the lock. Or I would just forget the pattern completely. I never had to go to the office like Adam, though (shakes head sadly), because I would just stop paying so much attention and try it again a couple of times, and voila.
If you have tried not paying attention to what you are doing, then you are doomed ;).
Well now I'm kind of at the point where I want to know what it is so I can write it down in case I ever forget again. So I'm both trying to not pay attention, so I am successful in opening it, and trying to pay attention so I see what numbers I choose. Needless to say, it's not working.
You should use a movie camera or something to record yourself opening it without looking so that you don't have to pay attention to the numbers while you're doing it, but you can go back and look at the tape later to see what the combination is. If you happen to have a movie camera around and an appropriate way to position it so that you can open the lock normally and record the numbers simultaneously, that is. [nods wisely]
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It's kind of funny that you used to know it and now have no idea, though. Good job! :-D
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Also, how does getting an earring caught in a scarf make you almost strangle yourself?
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...it sounds kind of nuts but i swear to god it worked.
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In any case, I sort of know what you're going through. One time in high school, I totally blanked on what my locker combination was. It wasn't at the beginning of the year or anything, so I'd probably opened the lock hundreds of times before. Also, as you know, my locker and I were like this. [twists index and middle finger around each other] Like THIS. [squeezes fingers harder and shakes hand in your face] In any case, I sat there for a few minutes trying all sorts of different arrangements of numbers and I finally decided on one that I was pretty sure was right. Of course, the lock still didn't open. At that point, I went to the office and told them my locker wouldn't open (of course it wasn't my fault, it was the locker's fault!) and they told me to go to some other office. There, they told me what the combination was (I think it was actually pretty close to what I had settled on as the right one, although obviously they were ( ... )
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And actually I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one to just totally forget my locker combination after hundreds of usages. I'm not the only one with a spazzy memory! w00t! But I would *so* like to have an office to go to and ask. I don't think I have the combination written down ANYWHERE so if I can't figure it out I'm pretty much screwed.
Oh, and before I forget, [steals my toothbrush back]
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If you have tried not paying attention to what you are doing, then you are doomed ;).
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