I had just rented a new apartment in Tribeca in Manhattan and on the very first night I awoke to hear a loud banging which seemed to be coming from outside the front door. I got up to take a look and opened the door. I then saw the cat flap from the opposite apartment was flapping and making the noise. As I went forward to try and close the flap, the front door closed behind me and locked. It was 3.00am (I think) I was locked out of my apartment, I had no cell phone, no watch and absolutely no clothes on. I had to wait until my previously unseen female neighbor came out. I then had to wait in her apartment dressed in her bathrobe until a locksmith came to let me back in to my apartment.

The former neighbor and myself remain friends to this day.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi