[mwood]

This morning I was changing the combo on my safe and my wife started talking to me while I was in the process. I lost concentration and succeeded in changing the combo but forgot what it was! I ended up with the door open but locked and couldn't get it unlocked. I spent the day at work trying to remember the new combo and came home and started punching in numbers to no avail. I looked in the owners manual and it said the mfg doesn't store combos, and if you forget yours you'll have to a lock smith drill it out. I figured with it locked open there would be access through the inside of the door, but it would still require a lock smith.
So I took my new puppy out for some exercise and was thinking about the number I had planned on using and where I might have gone wrong. Sure enough I was off by one number because of the layout of the key pad not being typical of like a 10 key. So I gave it another try and got it right! Man, was that a close one!

 

[mwood]

Mine (wife) can't help herself, she says what she's thinking when she thinks it, straight from the brain to the mouth. She drives me crazy some times but I doubt anyone else would put up with me so I'll keep her around.

 

[mwood]

I've got it down now. It was the damn key pad not being in the same format as a phone key pad with 4 rows of 3 numbers/symbols. I got mixed up trying to input numbers and listen to the wife at the same time. Luckily I figured it out once I stepped away and thought about it.