Locking Keys in Cars

[Keira]

I've done it once so far this year (2008), but I've done it six times since July. First time I had to have a locksmith fix the problem because I was three hundred miles from home without a spare key. Second time I just so happened to have my spare on me. Third time had to have another locksmith come out (but my bosses paid for it *snickers*) and so on, yada yada.

This time I don't know where my spare is. I think it may be a work, but my work keys are locked in my car with the others, lol. Now I'm going to my boss's house to borrow his key.

Today has not been my day, lol. First the archive site decided to go kaput for a while, and now this. Me, a dunce? Yes. Lol.

[Tensleep]

Ok, I completely missed this the first time around, but hey. That's what random moments are for.

You know, I have never locked my keys in the car. I lock the damn thing and have the keys in my hands, so I shove them in my pocket. I will have checked that they are there three or four more times before I finally just admit I have them. Then I get back to the car and repeat.

I did lock myself out of the old house all the time. Everyone thought that was hilarious. But hey. I usually just went across the street to our gramma's if that happened. If she was home, then great. If not, I knew how to unhook the latch on the back door and sneak our key for across the street. Man, I'm surprised they never got robbed after I did that.

So, anyone else have problems with their keys? Or are you all as OCD as I am?

[Nittanylizard]

Ever since college I've been obsessive about keeping my keys with me at all times (house and car). The front doors of the dorm, and the individual room doors, would lock automatically. You even had to take your keys to the shower with you.

My van has a number pad I can use to unlock it, so no problem there. I think I locked the keys in my mom's car one time because I stopped the car, sat there looking through something first, and then got out and slammed the door shut. I knew they were in there as the door was closing, but I wasn't fast enough.

When my nephew was about 4 years old and lived with his grandparents, he locked my mother-in-law out of the house a few times. She'd be outside wandering around with him, and he would go in the house and lock the door before she could catch him.

[missmouse]

I'm pretty good for not locking the keys in the car. I've always driven mummy dearests car, and she has a neck chain (argh, you know, the long cloth with a clip on the end), I think they're called Alligator Clips now that I think of it.

Now that I've got my own I need to get one for it. It's so long I can't forget it in the car, and it's something I get used to doing.

Now, with just a set of keys on a key ring, I'd forget because it's so small!

[Tensleep]

Huh. Long neck thingys to hang your keys on...good idea! I had one of those for my electronic security passes last year at the hospital. Never thought of it for keys.

But, doesn't that annoy you when you're driving? I can see it getting caught on everything while I was driving.

[Keira]

I think the wise thing to do would be to loop it around your wrist, or have your wrist going through it just once, so when you get out of the car, those keys are forced to go with you -- I really ought to invest in one of those lanyard things. I'm lucky enough, now, that I can just make one phone call and my bosses will have someone come unlock my car and I don't have to pay a dime, but it's still a major time hog.

I think we all ought to invest in those little metal magnet boxes you can put under your car -- I had one on my old car that I completely forgot about after it was totaled. I just never got around to getting another one and always forget about them.