Time Capsule Part 3

"But are you sure, you want to open that? It's not ours," Stephen tested. Suddenly, he felt like not wanting to cooperate in his niece's new game.
"But we found it in our garden, so that makes it ours," the little girl smartly answered. "Besides,how will we know who it belongs to if we don't open it," she added.

It turned out that picking the lock wasn't easy. Stephen realized
that he didn't just lack the tools but the skills as well to pick the lock,especially because he has never tried breaking and entering before. When he gets locked out of the house for going home very late, he would just climb up the window in his room, which he always forgets to close. That habit went on until his late father decided that he needed a key of his own lest they wanted other people to be climbing up an open window.

He had suggested a screwdriver but this wasn't possible. They didn't own one that is small enough. The tip of the smallest screwdriver in his brother in law's tookit barely fit the keyhole. Jamie asked him if he could open the lock with a hairclip. Stephen only smiled. So this is what babysitting kids with the TV does. Children just think that things are always that simple.Yes, a hairclip can be used to pick a lock but it needed time and skill and patience, all of which he doesn't have. He wanted to lecture the kid on this, instead he said," I don't know how."

"So we can't open it?" the girl asked, looking heartbroken again.

"I can't pick the lock," he said truthfully. "But maybe we can saw it into half or hammer it til it breaks so we can open the box," he suggested. He figured, it might even be easier this way since the lock looked old and rusty.

Jamie reached for the tool kit, which was beside them the whole time, and scrambled for a hammer. "You think I can break it?" she asked, holding the hammer with both hands.