There has been lots of promises made on the campaign trail, enough to make your head spin. Let’s be honest, politicians tend to try and say what they think we want to hear but when they get in office they either forget, see that it’s harder to deliver than expected, or change their mind. So what would we want to hear as a society from these candidates? Here’s one: I will keep my promises!

This joke sums up the irony of political promises exceptionally well….

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies.

His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

“Welcome to heaven,” says St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we’re not sure what to do with you.”

“No problem, just let me in,” says the man.

“Well, I’d like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we’ll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”

“Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the senator.

“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.

They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises…

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter

is waiting for him.

“Now it’s time to visit heaven.”

So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

“Well, then, you’ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.”

The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: “Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.”

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

Now the doors of the elevator open and he’s in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.

He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. “I don’t understand,” stammers the senator. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there’s just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?”

The devil looks at him, smiles and says,

“Yesterday we were campaigning…… Today you voted.”

Nuff said!

We asked our Miami Beach Locksmith when do customers should change their locks but not always do, here is his reply:

1. When moving into a new office/home

   People are spending hundreds of thousands of Dollars to buy their home, renovate it and fill it up with their valuable belongings. However, while many people invest heavily in almost every corner of their house they forget the most important one for their security, locks. Why do they need new locks if they just bought a new house? Because other people has the key too including real estate agents, previous tenants and contractors who worked on the house.

2. Divorce/break up

   divorce or break up are extremely tough on many people and may make them do foolish stuff. Don’t trust a partner with a broken heart, even if they gave you all their keys. The safest way is to change the locks or get it rekeyed.

3. Upgrading your house security level

   Security companies like Medeco and Multilock provides high security locks that makes it extremely hard to break. Ask you local locksmith for available options and prices. If you located in South Florida call our office at 1(866) 374-4840

As a Fort Lauderdale locksmith I have seen every corner of this city. From the richest restaurant to the poorest street, I’ve probably installed a lock, opened a door or replaced someone’s mailbox.

There are many places to visit in South Florida, today I will focus on some great museums in Fort Lauderdale for a day for the whole family:

1. Museum of Discovery and Science

   The museum offer two floors of fascinating interactive exhibits. You can see the largest living Atlantic coral reef in captivity, sharks, bats, snake (12-foot!), alligators and much more.
   You can try your pilot skills in cookpit simulators and learn about Florida Everglades. They also offer a space exhibit where you can simulated traveling to the moon and Mars.
   This place is heaven for the thinking kid.

   For more information go to: Museum of Discovery and Science

2. NSU ART MUSEUM

   Located in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale. The 83,000 Sf building contain 25,000 sf of exhibition space, the museum was designed by the renowned architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Also, because of its location, which is in one of the fastest growing areas in the US, there are restaurants, shops and galleries a walking distance away.

For more information go to: NSU Art Museum

3. Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum

   

   This is not most people typical Museum but if your heart is into Antique cars, this is the place for you. The museum was established to preserve the history of the Packard Motor Co. as well as to display an exhibition for the development of American engineering. The museum present collection of pre-war Packard automobiles and other memorabilia.

   For more information go to: Antique Car Museum

There are a lot of reasons people hide house keys. They might want to be able to allow children, teens, maids or house guests access to their house without worrying about making a lot of copies. A Miami Beach locksmith can rekey your locks or replace them, but you want to avoid this if possible.

It is important that if you hide a key on your property it is not in an obvious place. Unfortunately, most of the old standbys are no longer safe. You cannot just hide your key in your mailbox, under the door mat, or in the flower bed next to the porch. If you want to keep burglars out but let family in, you’re going to have to be very clever about your hiding place. A Miami Beach locksmith can give you some ideas.

Luckily there are a lot of products out there these days designed to make hiding your house key very easy. However, many burglars are familiar with all of these devices, so they know where to look. Instead of relying on these products alone, you have to get fairly creative. A good Miami Beach locksmith can help you come up with new ideas and safe ways to hide house keys. In the meantime, here are the three best ways to hide your house key.

Hey guys, Locksmith here.

We want to start a new series with you of weekly locksmith tips in order to make sure you are as protected as you should and can be.
Make sure to stay posted and refer back to this blog to gather your weekly tips 🙂

This week we want to talk about the importance of locking up your windows. I know this may seem like an obvious tip to you but, 80% of windows do not have nailed locks protecting from a breakin. Although many windows come with the manufactured lock system, a burglar can learn how the system of a certain lock works and develop a way to break in from the outside.

Therefore, we stress that you add an additional locking system onto all of your windows in order to provide extra protection incase of a breakin.

You can screw these lock attachments on yourself, or call a locksmith and we would be happy to help you out. If you are looking for a particular color lock to be able to match your existing window trim, do not fret as you should be able to do so.

Here is the tricky part, once you have got your locks installed, make sure to use them 🙂

We have seen instances where families will go the extra mile to add the additional protection onto their windows but then not use them. We do understand that it is an extra hassle to lock and unlock and extra piece of your window, yet we cannot express the importance! Plus if you already have it then why not use it!

Once again, should you have any questions as to how to lock up or install your window lock, make sure to contact us and we would be happy to help out!!

Also don’t forget to check out all of our locksmithing tips! For more information check this page out!

Bye for now!

Related to the the previous post, check out the craftsmanship of medieval locks! How beautiful! This is what we do at the shop 🙂

Locksmithing has been dated back to nearly the start of civilization yet our profession took a tern when it came to the medieval times considering medieval technology. We were once the “high tech” in our times, consistently crating, working together, locksmithing and so on. Of course we still do all this stuff but the times and our environment has changed!

Read this and learn about medieval technology!

In honor of the little mouse, check out our services and how quickly we can be there.

As much as we enjoy the idea and comfort of having a keyless smart lock such as August, us locksmiths would want to check out what kind of locks they use before recommending it to our followers. What happens if you lost your phone for example?