What do you do with old keys?

[Smokin Joe]

When you're in a mate's house find his keys when he is out of the room. Then swap a few over for similar looking ones.

Always good for a laugh.

 

[biggs682]

I see... Bring a fish bowl of keys out when you have guests round? That's bound to get them to leave quickly!

Exactley

When you're in a mate's house find his keys when he is out of the room. Then swap a few over for similar looking ones.

Always good for a laugh.

That does sound a good idea

 

[Drago]

Chuck them in the bowl at a car key party, leave a lot of people very frustrated.

 

[Brains]

Exactly. I have also found a bicycle buried and entwined into the roots of a privet hedge I was removing. The weirdest was a hole in a border I was making, filled with 52 (yes 52) stove top irons from the 1950s. Apparently a previous owner had worked for the council and was tasked with handing out irons to the poor. Ahem...Because in those days it was less important to have food and heating. A neatly ironed blouse was MUCH more important.

That may explain the 6 we dug up in our garden.
We painted them all with Hammerite and they have spent the last 25 years holding open various doors in the house

 

[colly]

I added an odd key to my sons key ring which has loads of keys on it for work/vans etc. Then a week later added another, and then a week later another and so on................it was six weeks before he caught on something wasn't right.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I added an odd key to my sons key ring which has loads of keys on it for work/vans etc. Then a week later added another, and then a week later another and so on................it was six weeks before he caught on something wasn't right.

He has skill potential. I would be seriously impressed if my oldest daughter noticed her sister was on fire.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I drop them randomly in the street, so people pick them up and waste time taking them 10 miles to the police station.

That is the key to a good walk in my opinion

 

[MichaelW2]

When I was at primary school in early 1970s a craze hit the playground of stuffing toy pistol caps into a tubular key, followed by a nail. Dropping the apperatus from shoulder height generated a satisfying bang. Do kids still do this. Do they get told off by or put on a watch list?

 

[Smudge]

When I was at primary school in early 1970s a craze hit the playground of stuffing toy pistol caps into a tubular key, followed by a nail. Dropping the apperatus from shoulder height generated a satisfying bang. Do kids still do this. Do they get told off by or put on a watch list?

We used to do that as kids, although in a slightly different way.
We would shave match heads into a large key, then put a 6" nail in, then suspend it on string and slam it against a wall. Even better, for a few years as a kid i lived near the sound mirrors, Dungeness Kent. This was in the days when anyone had easy access to them. You could make a deafening bang there with the key & nail.

 

[oldwheels]

We were much more sophisticated as we used a nut and two bolts to put the match heads in. Gave a satisfactory noise but also blew apart so in retrospect a bit dangerous.

 

[Kempstonian]

We were much more sophisticated as we used a nut and two bolts to put the match heads in. Gave a satisfactory noise but also blew apart so in retrospect a bit dangerous.

That's exactly what we used to do! Red matches, obviously.

Edit: They worked really well in underpasses! Lots of echo...

 

[tyred]

I still have a key for a 1980 Ford Cortina.

Virtually all Fords of that era seem to use the same key so am sometimes tempted to carry it and wait until I see a Cortina /Escort/Capri /Granada parked up and open it and play some sort of harmless prank on the owner.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

We were much more sophisticated as we used a nut and two bolts to put the match heads in. Gave a satisfactory noise but also blew apart so in retrospect a bit dangerous.

Ach, I was about to say the same thing.
The other daft thing we did was place a detonator on the kerb then slam a brick onto it while simultaneously trying to jump out of the way.


(I've no idea where these detonators came from but someone always had a pocketful at school.)

 

[Levo-Lon]

When I was at primary school in early 1970s a craze hit the playground of stuffing toy pistol caps into a tubular key, followed by a nail. Dropping the apperatus from shoulder height generated a satisfying bang. Do kids still do this. Do they get told off by or put on a watch list?

We did that with a nut and 2 bolts.
Bolt banger.Q2

Kids these days have no fun or idea😄

 

[oldwheels]

We got detonators stolen from the local coal pit in Maddison. One dafty threw one at the gable end of a tenement but when it failed to explode caught it on the way down. It then exploded and took off 3 fingers.