Alex The Locksmith

I am going to enjoy telling you all about Alex.

Imagine this, it’s Christmas Eve, you lose the only key you have to your extremely reliable but extremely old, 21 years jalopy Toyota truck. Everything to get done and no car.

Of course you cannot imagine anyone getting you out of this mess but hey you look for a locksmith prepared to try and help.

Alex turned up at my home within a couple of hours. It was about 1pm, he said he thought it would take about 1-2 hours to get me make me a replacement key.

It sound neigh on impossible but he set to work with equipment you’d expect to see on a James Bond movie set, black attaché cases with lights, cables, connectors, it looked to me like he was cracking a safe.

Two hours went by and he wasn’t saying much, I asked if he had a problem, he said it was proving more difficult than usual.

But he continued, he made phone calls, he was bilingual so most of the technical conversation was in a language I didn’t recognise.

When he came off the phone he explained due to the age of my vehicle he was encountering problems but thought he now had the solution.

It took him until almost 8pm but he didn’t give up and when he handed me the working replacement key, I don’t think either of us could quite believe it. I certainly felt that with sheer will and determination he had achieved the impossible and all on Christmas Eve.

If you ever find yourself stranded in need of a very clever locksmith Alex is your man.