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Nov 13, 2012, 03:54 PM
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I am like a Pavlovian dog, really. I always carry my keys in a pocket of my pants. But this morning, I was collecting laundry while wearing my pocketless biking chamois shorts. I need a special key to open the laundry room in our apartment complex. I made a couple of trips to the laundry room, loading two machines. Then I came home to take more dirty laundry... put my keys SOMEWHERE and ... could not find them. My only pair of jeans is inside a laundry machine behind a locked door. I searched and searched and could not find the keys. I need to go to work. I found a clean skirt and a clean jacket and left my apartment door unlocked hoping that the cats would not run away while I am at work. Damn it!
My plan for the evening is to introduce myself to my neighbors asking for the key from the laundry room - they will sure think that I am crazy and that is not incorrect - and then search search search while waiting for the laundry. I need some luck now! |
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Nov 13, 2012, 03:57 PM
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Sending luck your way. Sounds like one heck of a day. I used to lose my keys all the time and its a scarry feeling
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Nov 13, 2012, 03:59 PM
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Thank you. If the neighbors' key from the laundry room can be duplicated, I will do it - we have a place for keys within a walking distance. It will give me some flexibility.
I do need the key from the mailbox... I get my meds in the mail... |
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Nov 13, 2012, 04:09 PM
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may the force be with you, hamster bamster-walker, so you can safely find your keys.
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#5
Nov 13, 2012, 04:21 PM
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Keys are tricky things. I think they should come with some sort of tracking device.
 I hope you find them soon! I bet they are in the laundry room somewhere. Maybe put your laundry key on a cord to wear around your neck, that way if you have on pants with no pockets you can't put it down.
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Nov 13, 2012, 04:43 PM
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Hamster, sending positive thoughts your way!
You will find the keys or come up with replacements. I know it's incredibly frustrating & scary. Have lost mine, locked them in car, lost purse. All were found tho. Let's have faith that you'll find keys & all will be fine. 
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Nov 13, 2012, 04:48 PM
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I hope I will find them and then the first thing I will do is put them on a cord as Dark Heart X suggested. I do not want a repeat of this situation.
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Nov 13, 2012, 04:50 PM
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Sounds like a STRESSFUL (!!!) day! I just about trip over what I'm searching for once I've let it go. On the way to letting it go, though, watch out! Hope you find your key and your day gets better! I'll be sending good thoughts about the cats. I do know how stressful that can be. Hang in there!
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Nov 13, 2012, 04:57 PM
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This apartment used to be rented by my ex husband, whose super smart cat was able to open the front door unless it was locked. I just hope that mine aren't as smart! I have left the door unlocked on short trips, such as to the mailbox or the laundry room, and no one has managed to run away, so I hope they are all OK.
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Nov 13, 2012, 05:05 PM
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Dark Heart, I thought the exact same thought this morning - I need a tracking device! If I lose my cell phone in the apartment, I can call it from the landline - there should be something like this for the keys!
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Nov 13, 2012, 05:40 PM
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"Hello, this is key. I'm under the sofa right now, please leave a message at the tone."
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#12
Nov 13, 2012, 10:25 PM
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The cats are safe, all three of them. Now I just need to find the damn keys.
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Nov 13, 2012, 10:45 PM
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I had to buy a big jingley chain and a clamp for my keys. I had a clapper that would beep when I clapped. Dam battery died. Keys are gone.
The super of the building made extra sets and I kept one in my shoe. Didn't work great because if I changed shoes I was screwed. I am sort of OCD so I made a new ritual of clipping the keys on before I leave. That worked best. I wear a lanyard. Dumb. It worked. V |
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Nov 14, 2012, 08:32 AM
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I had lost my driver's license for over a week. I had planned to go tomo to DMV and have a replacement made but my daughter found it last night in her room! No idea how it got there but I am so grateful she found it b4 I went to have another made. Usually the was my luck runs, I find things the day I after I go thru the trouble/expense to get whatever I have lost replaced so this was an especially nice surprise lol.
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Nov 14, 2012, 11:41 AM
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Thank you to everyone who sent luck my way! I found my keys, through sheer luck and no work. I was too tired and went to bed planning to search in the morning. Then I woke up at 3AM and reached for the keys that were at the foot of the bed, wrapped in blankets. I have no idea how I knew. What a relief!
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Nov 14, 2012, 12:22 PM
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You probably kept putting your foot on them or something and you had a dream that they were there (which they were.)
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Nov 14, 2012, 12:23 PM
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Nov 14, 2012, 01:03 PM
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The key fairy was with you, that's for sure. First hidding the key then feeling guilty so returing it.
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Nov 14, 2012, 08:26 PM
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Maybe the cats had something to do with lost keys. There used to be a device that would help you find the keys. It would be a key chain and if you whistle the device would answer back. If you can't whistle just buy a whistle.
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Feb 08, 2014, 01:40 AM
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I am happy to report that such incidents have not been happening to me for many months already. I bought a rack with hooks and placed it on the inside of the apartment door. On one of the hooks is the laundry room key on a long lanyard, so that I can wear it as a pendant and have my hands free for carrying the laundry. One another hook is my regular key chain. The rest of the hooks are for jackets. Simple and convenient!
Talk about stress reduction. |
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#21
Feb 08, 2014, 06:10 AM
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If everybody who lost keys would be declared keys than the whole planet (at least the key carrying portion of it) would be.
Now imagine locking yourself out your dormitory room with old t-shirt from now bankrupt stock market broker company, underpants with a toilet paper in your hand... in early early morning (fortunatelly a cleaning lady came, because i was worried I would have to ask somebody for clothes and walk several streets to another building to get the keys). So it always could be worse and more embarrassing
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