It was apparently the worst weekend ever for a LaGrange man. Harold Jones, who works as a second shift janitor at the Market Street courthouse and other county buildings, spent two days and three nights without food, water or access to a restroom after he was accidentally locked up in a secure room at an upstate courthouse Friday night.

Jones was mopping the floor in a meeting room at the Dutchess County Courthouse in Poughkeepsie, when the door of the cell suddenly swung shut, locking him inside, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Jones repeatedly banged at the door but remained unheard until Monday morning when a Dutchess Department of Public Works employee found him.

"I usually don't mop inside," Jones recalled the incident to Poughkeepsie Journal. "I shouldn't have gone all the way inside, or I should have had a garbage can next to the door or something."

Coincidentally, Jones' cell phone, which he usually keeps in his pants pocket, happened to be in his coat in a locker instead.

"It was the worst night of my life, those three nights," he told the journal.

According to Jones' relatives, they looked for him at all the best possible places, but a search at the courthouse was the last thing that came to their mind.

Meanwhile, County officials said they will meet with the janitorial services company, through which Jones was hired, or to find out why no one realized that Jones was missing.