Broken doorknob- immediate help needed

[badstar]

hey folks, we have a minor crisis at home, and I am completely unable to leave work to try and do anything about it.

Our bathroom doorknob, one of those old-fashioned glass doorknobs, has decided to fall off with the door closed.

The screwplate isn't coming off, the door sticks in the frame but sticking a knife or something in there doesn't seem to help, and there is only that one bathroom in the apartment.

Phone call made and email sent to landlord...but for all I know, he's up in the Yukon territory right now and won't get the message for a day or so.

Oh, and I don't have the money to call a locksmith.

HELLLLLLLP!

Ideas, suggestions, anything.

edit: Nevermind, crisis averted, door open. Yay for illegal weaponry!

Comments

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Wow, at least I wasn't in the bathroom, just trying to get in. I don't tend to bring my cell phone in there with me, I would've been trapped in there all night. And wouldn't that have been fun. :-P

[falnfenix]

ack, yeah, that would have been...interesting.