Locked myself out again

[vernon]

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.

Make that suggestion to Fenton and I'll persuade him to give you a ten minute start before he unleashes the hounds in revenge for you unleashing my unbounded misery of coping with his unbridled strop.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I just find living somewhere where you don't need to lock doors helps.

Failing that, neighbours or a keysafe are the next options.

However my biggest problem is the exact opposite. My OH keeps locking me in! Just this morning he did exactly that and I had to ring him to come home and unlock the door! He had only just left this time. Recently I have had to ring my landlady to get her to open the door for me... And when I go out, well currently I leave the door unlocked. People actually have to have found out place first

 

[Drago]

Next time you're locked out and can't afford a locksmith then phone the dibble and report that it's an Islamic State safe house. Special Branch will be along within half an hour to open the door for you.

 

[vernon]

Next time you're locked out and can't afford a locksmith then phone the dibble and report that it's an Islamic State safe house. Special Branch will be along within half an hour to open the door for you.

And if you want your garden digging over, inform dibble that some of the Brinksmat gold is buried there.

 

[SD1]

Tricky, when you live alone. What do other people do to stop this happening?

2 neighbours have a key each and I hide one the garden but I can't find it.

 

[MontyVeda]

i have a spare key at a friend's house round the corner... which isn't much use when he's out. Used to have one in the corner shop too... until it changed hands. I've been toying with putting a spare in one of those pretend plastic pebbles, but in a neighbour's garden.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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

If they are dirty then yes.

 

[annedonnelly]

Some of my neighbours have external cupboards for the gas/electric meters - at one the teenaged son used to open the cupboard door and climb inside and into the house somehow.

Other neighbours used leave the key on the ground under the wheelie bin for their son.

 

[perplexed]

I might get some joke cat s**t and hide a spare key under that... Fairly safe I would imagine.

 

[biggs682]

coded key box

 

[MarkF]

I am bad with locking myself out. we have one spare under the flowers in the middle garden wall hanging box. Another is at my mothers and yet another is at the local hairdressers. What's worse is when I "post" my car keys into the bottle bank.

 

[classic33]

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.

Under the decorative stone that doubles as light.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

2 neighbours have a key each and I hide one the garden but I can't find it.

Same here: I gave a neighbour a set of my keys, have another hidden among the garden tools, no way I could find them if needed
I couldn't lock myself out anyway, as the door needs to be actually locked with a key.
I was more thinking in the lines of losing said keys while I'm out.

 

[Trickedem]

I have a hidden key, that involves me having to climb over a 7 foot gate into my back garden. Not too easy when drunk, wearing a suit in the pitch black.

 

[slowmotion]

I have a hidden key, that involves me having to climb over a 7 foot gate into my back garden. Not too easy when drunk, wearing a suit in the pitch black.

I'm always amazed at how easily people seem to be able to vault over ten foot walls in films. I had trouble getting over a six foot Wickes fence into my garden from a neighbour's. Obviously, grog had nothing to do with it at all. It doesn't help if the neighbours are outside in their garden watching your pathetic feats of athleticism.