O.K., show of hands. Who picked up the wrong set of keys and locked themselves out of their own house while taking out the trash yesterday
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Show of hands, who's making a duplicate key and leaving it with her geographically closest friend?
I had to do that when I lived in New York. The good news was I lived on the first floor. The bad news was that the windows were still a good 6' off the ground and I had to stand on a garbage can to climb in. The good news was that I'd left one window unlocked. The bad news was I had to squeeze over the bars to get in and ripped up the seat of a pair of brand new pants.
Actually, my repairman (a very nice older gentleman who, as he was cleaning shards of glass and old glazing/sealant out of the window frame, spent a lot of time talking to me as if I were his daughter) suggested that I hide at least one set of keys somewhere in my car, since that was the set of keys I had. Good idea.
No, thankfully, other than my back muscles are protesting from so much sweeping and my left leg is a little more painful than usual from carting a ladder from front and back and climbing to the top to check for unlocked windows. The only thing really wounded was my pride. I didn't cut myself on glass shards (unlike my contractor, Zaman Alli, who got quite a scrape
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The *only* reason this hasn't happened to me (numerous times!) is that I live right next door to my mother, who keeps two keys for me, in case I lock myself out again before I get the key back to her. Oh, yes, I could do that! Easily!
I'm really glad you're all right, and that you were the only one to break into your house yesterday.
How far is your trash that you have to lock your door?! I remember one time when I was young I broke a huge window at my moms job with an empty coffee can cause I thought the door was locked and I needed to get inside.
How far is your trash that you have to lock your door?!
My complex looks like a giant oval with spokes that lead into parking areas. You are allowed to leave trash on the outer edge of the complex on either corner of the intersections with the spokes. This works out great if your house is actually on a spoke road.
That said, there are two sets of buildings inside this complex which do not have their own spoke roads. Mine is an end unit on one of them. I can see six trash dump spots within view of my front and/or back door, but all are a "fur piece" (as my grandfather used to say) to walk from here and I'd be out of sight of my front door. So I grabbed a set of keys, but grabbed the wrong one.
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Show of hands, who's making a duplicate key and leaving it with her geographically closest friend?
I had to do that when I lived in New York. The good news was I lived on the first floor. The bad news was that the windows were still a good 6' off the ground and I had to stand on a garbage can to climb in. The good news was that I'd left one window unlocked. The bad news was I had to squeeze over the bars to get in and ripped up the seat of a pair of brand new pants.
The Moral: I would make a really rotten burglar.
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Actually, my repairman (a very nice older gentleman who, as he was cleaning shards of glass and old glazing/sealant out of the window frame, spent a lot of time talking to me as if I were his daughter) suggested that I hide at least one set of keys somewhere in my car, since that was the set of keys I had. Good idea.
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I'm really glad you're all right, and that you were the only one to break into your house yesterday.
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It wasn't.
Yeah....
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My complex looks like a giant oval with spokes that lead into parking areas. You are allowed to leave trash on the outer edge of the complex on either corner of the intersections with the spokes. This works out great if your house is actually on a spoke road.
That said, there are two sets of buildings inside this complex which do not have their own spoke roads. Mine is an end unit on one of them. I can see six trash dump spots within view of my front and/or back door, but all are a "fur piece" (as my grandfather used to say) to walk from here and I'd be out of sight of my front door. So I grabbed a set of keys, but grabbed the wrong one.
#sigh# Won't do that one again.
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