While most of us gorge ourselves in the duck and roast pork, there are some danes, who must get down to work. One of them is låsesmeden Ingolf Holmenlund in Frederikshavn.
When vagttelefonen calling, throw he, what he has in his hands. Also if it were to be juleanden or gifts.
– I could never find to say no. There I am loyal to my customers, ” he says with a laugh.
fortunately This will not happen every year, but he has experienced several times, that he had to move out to customers on christmas eve.
– Last time it was luckily quite late in the evening, so we were finished with the food. There was a young couple, who had come home from christmas eve at the family and had to lock himself in, and then the broken lever handle. They had a small child and a dog they were supposed to, so they were very happy that I came.
The vendsysselske locksmith is married and has a set of adult twins on 21 years – one of whom also works in the business to ensure the family and quibble not over, that he must work in a timely manner and early.
– the Wife has probably gotten used to it. It sometimes require patience to be married to a locksmith. It has probably been frustrating for her at times, he says.
– It requires her husband to be a locksmith. Especially when people are full and may not just appear, they have to pay for, that I help them in the middle of the night, tells Ingolf. Photo: René Schütze
Although Ingolf also suits his store, where he among other things, make nøglekopier, is working at odd times everyday for him.
– There is always something happening here between christmas and new year. It is not only people who have thrown the keys away. It is also the police, which for example must check for one that is sick or dead. And it is home care, who have forgotten the code to the key box and can’t get in to the elderly. It’s all possible, he explains.
This is precisely why he bother to work on christmas eve.
– It is the dissimilarity that makes it exciting. And then it’s only a small break in the spare time, usually I am back home again within an hour.
And then there is also just the with the money.
– It is the little animals that get låsesmeden out on christmas eve than on a normal day. Typically it will be 1500 dollars, he says with a smile.
How this time is an expensive task for most of us, it is not completely crazy to have the skill to unlock doors for people.
December is a good month. There we have the busy. It is typical of burglary, and so the people coming home after a christmas party and have thrown the keys away in their brandert.
in General, if we keep free, Ingolf has the most to see.
– Now, I have been a locksmith for 27 years, and in all the years it has always been the most busy in the festivals and holidays.
Ingolf 21-year-old son also works as a locksmith, but it is not in order to unburden the tiring helligdagsvagter overpå him, he gave him a job in the business to ensure guarantees Holmenlund senior. Photo: René Schütze
Ingolf even have an idea of why it hangs to together.
– When the daily routine gets broken and people put the brain on the shelf, so is it the throw the keys away or slamming out, he says.
Like so many others want Ingolf themselves white christmas. But maybe not quite for the same reasons as you and me.
– Now we just need some snow, so people lose keys in the snow, that is, after all, never to find again, he laughs.
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