Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:13 am by Josephus
Let's figure this out together.
1. You lost the only key to a door.
2. You do not want to pay a locksmith.
3. You don't want to buy tools.
4. You want strangers to help you out of this for free.
As a not-so-critical path aside, you appealed to your audience, 'being a woman', being remote, and called the people that installed the lock idiots even though you do not even know what kind it is. As a rhetorical question, how do you know that it is installed wrong if you do not know what it is?
Okay fine. I'll do my most best. See those screws, take them out, take the pate off, and see if you can take the lock out as is. If not, take the door off it's hinges, then take the lock off. Either way I reckon you will not like the next step of replacing the lock given #2 and #3. Alternatively, you could find a chunk of brass in similar size and shape to the key, soot it, and take a file to it in the usual manner of impressing. I will not describe it as I expect you do not want to do that either as it is a long shot for someone doing it the first time and given #4. Likewise, picking it is a long-shot. Finally, why is this a big deal when you are two hours away from anything and the place can be locked up from the inside anyway?
So yeah, I can't find a solution that provides everything you want. The next best is to do nothing, followed by the option of replacing the lock.