Locked myself out again

[shouldbeinbed]

You could get to be friends with your local burglar.

I'm lucky, my in-laws live just around the corner so a spare key is never far away. TBH though, I'm not one for forgetting my keys - I can lose them within seconds of putting them down and delay us going out for ages trying to find them but actually forgetting them, fortunately not.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I thought I'd lost my keys one drunken night, and climbed in through the upstairs window.

To this day I have no idea how I fitted through the small opening, never mind reached the window, which is the opposite side of the house to any fall pipes or things to climb up.

I only know I did it because the neighbours had seen (and heard) me struggling with the door and not long after saw my legs going through the window.

I've tried to get through since, out of curiosity and from the inside, and I don't fit. I can only think I somehow got onto the roof and swung down off the plastic gutter. The window frame was rotten too, so it was mainly the glass that held my weight, and I'm not exactly sylph like.

The only other possibility I can think of, is I'd 'borrowed' ladders out of someone's garden, and they'd taken them back the next morning while I slept.

The keys were on the front grass, along with my false teeth.

 

[slowmotion]

Hide one under a special log in a shed. Don't put one under a flower pot!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I locked myself out of my car the other year(VW Golf. I wont miss that i'll just lock the doors while you faff around mechanism). I had to pay some bloke 43 quid to break in, only to find the key wasn't in the boot as i suspected it was. I found it the following day in the sewing tin. Then on looking at my car insurance policy i found that if i'd phoned a certain number they'd have come out and opened the car up for free!

 

[snorri]

that exact one, but always something along those lines. Keys, cards and cash, in one packet. Never lost it, never left it. Just can't go anywhere without it. Never do.

Never lost your trousers then?

 

[summerdays]

In the past we have left a spare set with friends, and done the hide them in the garden temporarily when we've realised someone hasn't got a set and no one will be in when they are back. Now with 5 sets of keys and mobile phones we'd just wait on one of the others turning up with keys. My youngest is the one that does it most frequently so often waits for an hour or more for us to get home, but can't be bothered to walk to a mates house to wait

 

[byegad]

Surely your butler opens the door for you anyway?

Exactly! If the Butler loses the key you sack him and deduct the cost of hiring a locksmith to change the lock from his meagre wages. (A good reason to always pay the staff well in arrears.)

 

[vernon]

Surely your butler opens the door for you anyway?

It's a twenty minute walk round to the back of Chateau Vernon where Fenton would gain sight of me. It saves time and my legs to have a key near to front entrance

 

[Drago]

My Step Brother lives in the village, he has a spare.

 

[srw]

Surely your butler opens the door for you anyway?

Certainly not. That's the Footman's job.

 

[vernon]

I have my ladders in the backyard and the front upstairs window is open most times.

Does instinct get the better of you and you give the window a quick wash before entering?

 

[vernon]

Certainly not. That's the Footman's job.

Where do I start when describing the waste of oxygen that is my footman?

 

[perplexed]

It's a twenty minute walk round to the back of Chateau Vernon where Fenton would gain sight of me. It saves time and my legs to have a key near to front entrance

Wouldn't it just be easier to have Fenton sat in the doorway 24 hours a day to guard it, rather than have to spend money on a spare key? It would give him so many more hours in the day to tug his forelock at you...he'll be grateful for it. It'd certainly be less expensive in terms of remuneration than investing in a golf cart for him to come and find you round the back.

 

[DCLane]

In my first term back from university I'd left my key in my accommodation. Which was fine except that was in Northern Ireland and home was in Nottingham.

So at 4 in the morning I went to fetch the 'spare' key from my parents greenhouse. Only it wasn't there

Cue me attempting to break in at 4.10am, alerting the neighbours, who then realised I could and did break in

 

[Ganymede]

I keep the back door key on the same keyring as my bike lock keys.

Bike keys: bike lock, gate padlock, garage and back door keys

Regular keys: front door, side door, Mum's house, gate padlock.

As I can't actually get my bike out without using the keys, and indeed as I can't leave my house without using keys to lock it (no Yales!) then it's really hard for me to be locked out.

I also have a secret back door key stashed secretly in a very secretive place, which is a secret.