QOTD: When was the last time you got locked out of your house or car?
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Awwww, poor Donald.
The last time I was locked out of my house was a power failure just as I was getting home from Geek Night. So that makes it the very wee hours of the morning.
I trudged up to the front door only to find that my idea of keeping the storm door locked so canvassers and package deliverers don't leave it ajar to flap mercilessly in the wind has a drawback - I can't get the key any where near the locks.
The door leading from the porch into the garage would accept the key but the handset would not turn. That reminds me, it didn't from the inside either and I haven't replaced it yet....
I had to make my way through a gate that was frozen on the ground and broken on the top and "fixed" so the dogs couldn't get through it. Then trudge to the back deck and retrieve the key for the back door from the key safe and let myself in. All in the dead of night, without lights, in bitterly cold sub zero temps.
I need to get that side door to the garage fixed.....
I lock my bedroom door to keep certain teens from removing things. I regularly forget to take the key with me. Thank goodness a certain other daughter's bf will climb the ladder and go through the very small closet window and tramp through the crap in the closet to unlock the door. I need to learn how to pick the lock. I tried the locking websites and found a few "how to" pages but clearly I lack patience and finesse for this sort of work.
I use key safes (mentioned in the story) bolted to the door frame and deck railing.
the key in the car was for an interior door so T's daughter won't "borrow" things and she won't have to send anyone through windows.
Not sure I would want an exterior door key kept with the car registration telling where the door was located.
The key safes, even if pried off of the mounting, leave you with a metal locked box. It is seriously easier to take a rock and break a window to get in.
They have saved me a couple of times. and also let the young gal into the house to take care of my geriatric dogs when I had them.
now I need to replace the handset on storm door so that it can be unlocked from the outside as well.
5 comments:
Awwww, poor Donald.
The last time I was locked out of my house was a power failure just as I was getting home from Geek Night. So that makes it the very wee hours of the morning.
I trudged up to the front door only to find that my idea of keeping the storm door locked so canvassers and package deliverers don't leave it ajar to flap mercilessly in the wind has a drawback - I can't get the key any where near the locks.
The door leading from the porch into the garage would accept the key but the handset would not turn. That reminds me, it didn't from the inside either and I haven't replaced it yet....
I had to make my way through a gate that was frozen on the ground and broken on the top and "fixed" so the dogs couldn't get through it. Then trudge to the back deck and retrieve the key for the back door from the key safe and let myself in. All in the dead of night, without lights, in bitterly cold sub zero temps.
I need to get that side door to the garage fixed.....
~R
I lock my bedroom door to keep certain teens from removing things. I regularly forget to take the key with me. Thank goodness a certain other daughter's bf will climb the ladder and go through the very small closet window and tramp through the crap in the closet to unlock the door.
I need to learn how to pick the lock. I tried the locking websites and found a few "how to" pages but clearly I lack patience and finesse for this sort of work.
t
Keep a spare key in your car in the glove box. Then when you aren't home, neither is the key and if you do need the key.... presto
~R
I have a spare key as well!
I use key safes (mentioned in the story) bolted to the door frame and deck railing.
the key in the car was for an interior door so T's daughter won't "borrow" things and she won't have to send anyone through windows.
Not sure I would want an exterior door key kept with the car registration telling where the door was located.
The key safes, even if pried off of the mounting, leave you with a metal locked box. It is seriously easier to take a rock and break a window to get in.
They have saved me a couple of times. and also let the young gal into the house to take care of my geriatric dogs when I had them.
now I need to replace the handset on storm door so that it can be unlocked from the outside as well.
~R
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