Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller

So there I was after work on Friday, plans were set and all I wanted to do was get in the car and get the clothes I wanted to change into and get on the road. When I pulled on the passenger side door handle -a quick aside for those of you joining our program already in progress, earlier this year my driver side door handle busted off leaving me to enter my car by going through the passenger side to open the driver side from the inside and go around to get in. and...were back-I hear a metallic sound and then something falling and nothing. My door would not open. So there I was with a two door car built before you could enter through the trunk with all windows snugly sealed and places to be. Now I try to be a fairly level headed guy and so I set out to find a solution. My first effort was to get a glass cutter and cut a nice little hole in the window that I could fish through and open my door. That was stupid on multiple levels, 1) There still would have been a hole in my window and 2) that glass is way to thick for a pansy little glass cutter to get through. So while frustration built my mind found and clung to A SOLUTION!!! I calmly walked back into work and to the stock room grabbed up a baseball bat that we keep by the back door, for some reason I have yet to discern, and very coolly and calmly walked back out of the store. Then I went to town on that bad boy. Actually it didn't take all that much to put the end of that bat through my window, none of the electric ones the little ones on the back side panel. That glass shattered and went everywhere. I cut myself up a little in the process so I went back in the store and started shopping. I bought some gauze and bandages and triple antibiotic ointment a package of painters drop cloths and a roll of duct tape. I bandaged myself up got a pole with a hook on it, one of many we have around the store, and opened my driver side door from the inside, broke out the rest of the glass so no one else cut themselves on it and covered the window in plastic. So for the last 5 days I've had to park with my driver side window rolled down, and covered in a loose sheet of plastic to ward off the rain, so I can get into my car at all. So now I have to find and replace parts on both of my doors and replace a broken window. But even with all that except for getting a little frustrated I don't look at it as a negative experience. I knew this was going to happen eventually because the design of the door handles is not a structurally sound one, so it wasn't a total surprise. Also while it was a little trying it was kind of cool to break out a car window with a baseball bat, I mean how often do regular law abiding citizens get to do stuff like that? It's usually reserved to vandals, thugs or scorned women. I got a battle wound, which all guys know makes every story better. So all it cost me was a little frustration, a little blood and whatever it ends up costing in replacement parts (window and handles) and I got a fairly descent story out of it. Not a bad trade. :)