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Doing outside locksmith service calls for forty years did certainly add variety to my daily routines. Sometimes I was called upon to solve puzzles. Just for the fun of it, try solving this one; no prizes, no awards.

Back in the mid 1970s I got called to change the locks on a Realtor's office in the Vischer building on South Pineapple Avenue (Little Five Points). While I was there he told me he was having the locks changed because he thought someone was coming in after-hours and running up his electric bill. Just recently, his monthly bill went up to almost $200.00 from a usual $39.00.

He had also called an electrician to look for the problem. They unplugged everything in his office and noticed the wheel in the meter still turning. Then they tripped all of his circuit breakers. Well, now his neighbor, who had moved in two months ago, came out the back door complaining. (Have you guessed the rest?) The neighbor was a tailor and he was ironing a shirt and his iron just went cold.

When the building was built, Carter's Drugstore occupied the first floor.  After they moved out the former large expanse was partitioned off to make several smaller units.

Yep, you guessed it; both sides of one wall receptacle were wired to only one office.   Life was/is good.