Home Alone and Locked Out...in the ghetto

If you happened to read my previous post, you'll have noticed that I may just live in the ghetto.  Ok, so it's not that bad, but I like to make it sound more exciting.  Anywhoo.... Royal is out of town all week for work, so I'm doing the single mom thing, which by the way I am not sure how single moms do it without either going crazy or being hospitalized for exhaustion, because I now notice that I love it when Royal comes home and can pay attention to Jayden for a few hours. :) Anyways... with Royal gone, I have made sure all the doors are locked up tight, even the door that goes to the garage, which is sometimes locked and sometimes not, but this week has been locked for sure. So, tonite I was going to go get some food to eat, b/c I didn't want to cook, so I grab jayden and my keys and wallet and go out to the garage. It isn't until I hear the garage door slam shut that I realize that it just might be locked. I run back to the door and yes, my suspicion was correct, it was locked. I run back to the car searching for my keys...what do I find? Only the car keys...no house keys. I'm like oh crap, now what am I going to do? Royal's in Alabama, he has a key. Jordan is in Portland, he has a key. The spare key to the house is INSIDE (great place for it). Basically I'm screwed. I started thinking, could Jayden and I sleep in the car and just wait for Royal to come home tomorrow night? Ummmm I think not. I notice my neighbor Ed across the street in his garage (not the drug dealer neighbor)  He's one of those guys who has connections everywhere and knows everything that happens in the neighborhood, and I mean everything.  So I grab Jayden and run across the road.  I'm like 'Hey Ed, I just locked myself out of the house, you wouldn't happen to be an expert lock picker would you?' He's like 'well....hang on one sec'. He runs in the house for a minute and then comes back out with a credit card.  I'm like 'What?? That actually works??' He goes, 'Well you have to know how to do it.'  I'm like 'Who showed you?' And he said 'I had one of the inmates show me how to do it'  No, Ed has never been to prison, well at least not in a cell.   He's a guard at the Shelton Pen.  So, Ed goes right up to the door, puts the card in the door jam and 2 seconds later the door is open.  I'm like 'You got to be kidding me. Why do I even lock the door???'  Ed's like 'Yea, you might as well not lock it and just call me if you think someones in your house'  A few days earlier when the cops were running through the neighborhood looking for drug dealers, Ed proceeded to give me his phone number and said 'I have 7 guns and I know how to use them, you call me if you're scared'   love Ed!!!