My daughter locked me in the basement.

My daughter is 2 years old. She loves to play tricks on people. This is not the first time that she has locked me in the basement.

Usually I would find things to do downstairs until she decides to unlock the door. Or my other daughters would unlock the door for me.

But this time it was a bit different. I needed to pick my other daughter up from preschool. My older daughter was in school too. So it was just me and her.

As I was climbing up the stairs, I could hear my daughter’s little feet running toward the basement door. I knew what she was planning to do. I hurried up the stairs as fast as I could, but it was too late. She locked the door.

I could hear her laughing on the other side as I was trying to turn the knob. After asking her several time to open the door, she decided it would be funnier if she turned off the lights too.
The light switch in the basement is clear across on the other side and there is way too much stuff to go around.

She would also turn the knob a little so that I would think she unlocked the door. I would try to turn the knob again and she laughed some more.

I knew if I kept asking her to open the door she wouldn’t do it. So I decided to wait it out until she got bored of this game. I think she forgot I was down there. She decided she wanted to watch a video. She turned the volume way up and watched cartoons for a bit.

Finally, I could hear her run back. She unlocked the door and said, "Mommy let’s go pick up efasia* from preschool”
Uh…yeah, that’s what I wanted to do 15 minutes ago. I was not down there very long. I was a tad bit late at picking up my daughter, but I learned an important lesson…..I need to take keys with me whenever I go downstairs.

My daughter thinks she is so funny and she is. Of course at the time it wasn't funny because I really needed to pick up my other daughter from preschool, but I laugh about it now.