When Gremlins Attack

murphda2

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Ever had one of those days? Ed posted a thread earlier talking about his day battling with his water heater and I was joking around about the "Gremlins" when Denny blamed it on "Murphy's Law", but stressed that it wasn't Murph (me).

After eating dinner and watching Survivor, I called the wife to check-in and tell her I was heading to the shop. I got up headed out the door only to realize that my keys were sitting on the bar. Yep, you guessed it, I locked the door and the only spare key is on Nadine's key chain. Oh, and Nadine is back home in Arkansas.

I checked the windows, no luck. I guess me reminding Nadine to make sure and lock the windows repeatedly worked. Both downstairs windows were locked so I started eyeballing the upstairs window. The only problem now is that I don't have a ladder, my phone's battery is dying, and I'm also locked out of my car. Thank goodness for OnStar. I had just enough battery left to make the call to get my car door unlocked and plug in my phone.

I called a buddy who lives down the road and he brought over his ladder only to find that the upstairs window is also locked. Then I went rummaging through my car looking for a "master key". Luckily I keep everything in the world in my car and found the master key hiding in the floorboard.

My Master Key

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Ah hah! Caffrey's Law strikes again! Glad you got in without getting arrested, Murph. You should keep a spare key under the Welcome mat where noone will find it.
 
I did something very similar only it cost me a replacement pane of stormdoor safety glass and I now have a dent in my wooden front door from a thrown sledge hammer... now I carry a set of house keys in my left & right front pants pockets! :biggrin:
 
... now I carry a set of house keys in my left & right front pants pockets! :biggrin:

Very similar to my solution. I found myself locked out of my car too often so I started carrying a spare car key with my change. The car has a spare house key (among others) in a hidden place, but no spare car key in the car. My main key "ring" is a carabiner clipped to a belt loop with car keys, house keys and work keys on separate rings so I can take off just the car key easily for valet parking (rarely, usually when someone else pays for it) without giving him/her the matching house key. Seems somewhat paranoid, but it's been a while since I've been locked out. :)

Steve
 
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My dad always had a spare house key hidden in a magnetic box (the type for hiding an extra car key on your car). He kept on the inside of one of the down spouts. Saved me a couple of times. The only thing I didn't like about it was sometimes the spiders would hide in the box.
 
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