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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
August 30 2012 10:02 GMT
#1
Maybe this is just karma.


So here I am, 3am at night, homeless. I lost my keys somewhere and I can't find them. I don't have my cellphone with me either, and I don't remember the my apartment's manager's number on top of my head.

My keys and my wallet are usually in the same pocket in my pants. Today I left my apartment at around 5pm, went to the Ave and had pho, then went to school (to use the campus's wireless internet) until 11pm, then went to do some light grocery shopping at Safeway, then I went home and discovered that I had no keys. I traced back my steps to school (pho place is closed right now) and couldn't find my keys. It is unlikely that I will be able to go home tonight.

I really hope I can get another set of keys tomorrow. I am going to the PAX on Friday (i.e. happening in 31 hours)... and I do want to be able to take a shower and have a change of clothes before I go...

UGH./......!!!!!

At the end it's my fault. My key chain recently got a lot lighter than it usually is, which is probably how I manage to lose it.

I am probably going to camp outside of my apartment tomorrow morning so I can ask my neighbours and get the manager's number. Then I am going to call him nonstop (from a public phone, yay -_-) until he gives me a spare set of keys...

*****
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
SnipedSoul
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2158 Posts
August 30 2012 10:14 GMT
#2
This is why I make sure I still have my keys every ten minutes when I'm out of my house.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
August 30 2012 10:20 GMT
#3
On August 30 2012 19:14 SnipedSoul wrote:
This is why I make sure I still have my keys every ten minutes when I'm out of my house.


And this, too.

Well it's 3:18am. I need survive until at least 7-8AM so I can hunt my neighbours down and get the manager's number. Now how exactly do I survive for another 4-5 hours with only a laptop on battery power....

It's kind of cold right now, too. I am only wearing short sleeves and the Seattle night is actually kind of chilly.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
August 30 2012 10:21 GMT
#4
You have food (groceries), so as much as this may suck, its not that bad. More importantly, if you don't have your phone on you HOW ARE YOU POSTING ON TL?
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51476 Posts
August 30 2012 10:29 GMT
#5
Oh dear
I always do the patting of my pockets everywhere i go. Before i leave work i check my keys are in my pocket, but for me it helps i have a car, i never can leave anywhere without my car keys, plus i cant lock the office without my car keys, which all has my house key on it xD

However, there was a funny time in my school time.

My brother is 3 years older than me and was in his last year of school, and i was going into my 2nd year, i was home before him waiting for him to open the house with his key and he was coming up the street into the Cul De Sac and saw me waiting outside. He is a bit of a numpty at times and well he thought it would be an amazing idea to throw the key to the house from the bottom (about 100yards? maybe a bit further) to me outside the door....and well lets say the key went over our neighbours fence. Not only did it go over but it only just went over the fence into like a billion bushes so we had no chace of finding it, and the next person home would not be home for another 1hour or so >.<

Luckily, my dad and his brother are really and he lives 3 doors away from us and he finished work at 3pm and we went down to his house and got our spare key and let ourselves in xD but yes, the ability to lose a key has never happend to me because it just doesn't xD but that was one time when i was stranded.
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Praetorial
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States4241 Posts
August 30 2012 11:14 GMT
#6
Whenever I lock myself out of my home, there's a ~60 foot tall hemlock tree that grows by the side of our house.

I climb up, jump onto the roof, and go in through an open window, locking it behind me.

So far, none of my neighbors have called the police, and no thief has broken in, so it works out well.
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Sinensis
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2513 Posts
August 30 2012 11:15 GMT
#7
Have you ever been in that situation where you lost your keys and your mobile?

A where me keys? A where me phone? A where me keys? A where me phone?

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Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 11:55:41
August 30 2012 11:52 GMT
#8
Any German here who knows the translation to Schlüsseldienst?
Basically you call someone who will break into your house/apartement (often times not even breaking the lock). Is way overpriced (100 euros or something among those lines) but is a very quick and convinient option.
This is our town, scrub
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
August 30 2012 11:54 GMT
#9
If you can get a knife try putting it in the gap between the window and the frame and levering it open that way. Your manager might be a bit pissed but better that sitting outside in the cold.
Soap
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Brazil1546 Posts
August 30 2012 12:22 GMT
#10
Can't you think of any way to reach a locksmith?

I locked myself out twice, once I managed to leverage the gate with a branch to at least wait for my parents inside the garage, the other I opened the gate and tossed the key through the window just to realise it was the last key outside.
Masamune
Profile Joined January 2007
Canada3401 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 12:31:17
August 30 2012 12:28 GMT
#11
On August 30 2012 20:52 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
Any German here who knows the translation to Schlüsseldienst?
Basically you call someone who will break into your house/apartement (often times not even breaking the lock). Is way overpriced (100 euros or something among those lines) but is a very quick and convinient option.

locksmith

I got way too hammered once and lost my keys out so I had to fork over like 80 bucks for a locksmith as well as the cost for a new lock after it was broken

Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
August 30 2012 12:31 GMT
#12
On August 30 2012 21:28 Masamune wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 30 2012 20:52 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
Any German here who knows the translation to Schlüsseldienst?
Basically you call someone who will break into your house/apartement (often times not even breaking the lock). Is way overpriced (100 euros or something among those lines) but is a very quick and convinient option.

lockesmith

I got way too hammered once and lost my keys out so I had to fork over like 80 bucks for a lockesmith as well as tne cost for a new lock after it was broken


thanks..
my neighbour had the same problem at like 2 am .. like 6 hours before I had to write an exam ^^
damn locksmith was lout as f
This is our town, scrub
Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 12:49:16
August 30 2012 12:46 GMT
#13
On August 30 2012 19:21 bITt.mAN wrote:
You have food (groceries), so as much as this may suck, its not that bad. More importantly, if you don't have your phone on you HOW ARE YOU POSTING ON TL?

I think we need to address this issue first.

edit: FUCKKKKK YEAH, REAVER TIME, BABY
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
August 30 2012 15:25 GMT
#14
On August 30 2012 21:46 Suc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 30 2012 19:21 bITt.mAN wrote:
You have food (groceries), so as much as this may suck, its not that bad. More importantly, if you don't have your phone on you HOW ARE YOU POSTING ON TL?

I think we need to address this issue first.

edit: FUCKKKKK YEAH, REAVER TIME, BABY


The reason I could post on TL was that I was outside of a school building and I could piggyback on the school's WIFI from the outside.

Anyway, I managed to get back after the 9 hours ordeal. It turned out I left my key ON MY MAILBOX. FUUUUUUUUUUUU

At least I am glad that my neighbours decided to not burglarize me while I was stuck outside. Honestly, it could have easily happened.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Lokk
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada635 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 17:56:12
August 30 2012 17:55 GMT
#15
well once u get into ur apartment you ain't sleeping son......that key is still out there................
edit: oops didnt read last post nice find!!!
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QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32048 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 19:36:49
August 30 2012 19:36 GMT
#16
the only solution is to party all night brah

oh doh i didn't see that last post. what an anticlimactic ending.
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NewbieOne
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Poland560 Posts
August 30 2012 20:22 GMT
#17
Got my keys stolen from me like two weeks ago, possibly interrupted a burglary attempt that night too. Glad nothing bad happened to you. You've got some nice neighbours. I know people who'd still change the locks in such a situation.
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