Where is my spare key?

[GetCarter]

13m said:

GetCarter said:

When Mrs Get lost her key I told her it would cost her £264 to replace it.

She found it.

Can I hire her?

Ha. £264 per hour.

[13m]

What concerns me about all of this is that something very bad has happened. Probably that I have gone just a little bit senile.

[soad]

Look harder.

[omgus]

I spent the 2 weeks running up to my last trip abroad looking for my passport.
The day i would need to bite the bullet and head into London to get a new one made i opened up my safe to get my birth certificate and found i had put my passport in there.
At no point in the preceding 2 weeks when i had thought, "where is the safe place i put my passport?", had i twigged that it might be in the fking safe. But the moment i needed to find the safe place i had put my birth certificate my memory had that answer right there.
I am not a smart man at times.

[13m]

omgus said:

I spent the 2 weeks running up to my last trip abroad looking for my passport.
The day i would need to bite the bullet and head into London to get a new one made i opened up my safe to get my birth certificate and found i had put my passport in there.
At no point in the preceding 2 weeks when i had thought, "where is the safe place i put my passport?", had i twigged that it might be in the fking safe. But the moment i needed to find the safe place i had put my birth certificate my memory had that answer right there.
I am not a smart man at times.

One of my theories is currently that when I damaged the other key I fetched the new one from the safe. Then I elected to straighten the one I'd bent and return the spare to the safe. Except the spare never made it that far. It COULD be in the pocket of an item of clothing somewhere. Possibly in Oxfam.

I have other theories, most of which centre upon me being a bit of a tard.

[PositronicRay]

A prayer to St Anthony of Padua is the technique my wife successfully employs. Apparently you need to have looked everywhere 1st, you can't just be too lazy to look.

[Easternlight]

13m said:

One of my theories is currently that when I damaged the other key I fetched the new one from the safe. Then I elected to straighten the one I'd bent and return the spare to the safe. Except the spare never made it that far. It COULD be in the pocket of an item of clothing somewhere. Possibly in Oxfam.

I have other theories, most of which centre upon me being a bit of a tard.

Your not being a tard, just getting older!

Sad but the options are much worse

[PorkInsider]

Morningside said:

I heard stories that certain cars had a spare under the washer bottle from the factory. (Talking 60s/70s model here).

You could probably have used the washer bottle instead of a key to get into some 70s cars.

[347Andy]

You should have attached one of those 1980's "whistling" key rings to it. That might have helped find it !

[LuS1fer]

PorkInsider said:

You could probably have used the washer bottle instead of a key to get into some 70s cars.

I could open my 1972 Viva with a fork prong.
I once stripped the interior and some wag, overnight, unlocked every single door and left the boot open.

[paintman]

Have you/your wife been to one of those parties where - so I'm told - you all put your car keys in a bowl on the table and someone else then selects a key & goes off with the key owner to discuss cars or something?
Did you/your wife forget to collect your spare key afterwards?

[anonymous-user]

paintman said:

Have you/your wife been to one of those parties where - so I'm told - you all put your car keys in a bowl on the table and someone else then selects a key & goes off with the key owner to discuss cars or something?
Did you/your wife forget to collect your spare key afterwards?

See? Go on, ask her.

[M3ax]

I keep my spare key away from wife. It's in a bag on the floor behind the drivers seat. I know exactly where it is for when I need it. For example when I have locked the car and lost my key. I just .... They may be a flaw in this arrangement.

[generationx]

/Thread of the day

[13m]

generationx said:

/Thread of the day

It gets better. There's a prize for whoever correctly guesses where it is. I haven't decided what the prize is, but it will be good.

[s p a c e m a n]

Shirely you can get a cheaper spare key than main dealer prices. I've had a mobile locksmith break into a car, remove the barrel, cut and programme a key for less than that (10 years ago)

[Blib]

I once thought I'd lost a pair of sunglasses. I looked everywhere. Eventually, I realised that they had been perched on the top of my head all along.

Have you looked for your keys on the top of your head?

[13m]

s p a c e m a n said:

Shirely you can get a cheaper spare key than main dealer prices. I've had a mobile locksmith break into a car, remove the barrel, cut and programme a key for less than that (10 years ago)

I intend to research it.

But there is still the problem of where the other key is. It's very, very odd that it is missing.

[Chris Type R]

I think I've cracked it - you're looking in the wrong safe.

[Morningside]

Third drawer down in the kitchen stuffed at the back between the mangled Phillips screwdriver you should really throw out and that manky fabric tape measure that is missing the first inch or so.