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Ok. I have actually found them now. The keys to my lockable tow hitch pin.
… but I thought it would be fun to see who could guess first where I found them and then maybe I could get you a prize or something 🤷🏽♂️
One guess per forum member!
Where you left them…
last place you looked?
Most definitely not
In the laundry basket.
In the fridge.
keys to my lockable tow hitch pin.
Still in your lockable tow hitch pin, having driven hundreds of miles?
Still in the tow hitch lock.
In the dog
On the piano
On the key ring with the house keys?
In the bowl
Where your better half has tidied them to? Assumes you have a better half
In the bowl
But who's bowl...
In a shoe.
Borrowed by your son from the future for time-travelling adventures?
If you're anything like me, they're in your other hand.
Posted in the vcr ....
Not attached to a SmartTag
Bread bin?
Someone I worked with was late to work one because he couldn’t find his work pass. It was found some hours later in the bread bin. He had had toast for breakfast.
In your other coat pocket.
Someone I worked with was late to work one because he couldn’t find his work pass. It was found some hours later in the bread bin. He had had toast for breakfast.
That's a similar story to why I suggested 'fridge' above - a colleague had bought some chilled food at lunchtime and, in an attempt not to forget to take it home, put her car keys in the work fridge along with the food. She then promptly forgot that she'd done it and spent an age turning work upside down trying to find her keys.
I thought you had arrived at the campsite and realised that the key to the top-box was left at home!
If it was like my key discovery at the weekend.
It was in a pair of waterproof trousers that I'd not worn for at least 4 years!
Item found was the spare key for a VW Polo we sold 2 years ago, oops!
In the cupboard where you keep drinking glasses.
They should be in the cutlery drawer in the kitchen 2steps from the back door you came in not in the study/ bathroom/bedroom /kit bag /coat
I don’t think you are my wife.?
I put my keys in the cutlery drawer last week where they got covered by knives,I looked all over…then used spare set for a few days oh how they laughed
In the bowl
In the bowel
I lost 2 sets of garage keys once, had one spare but didn't want to risk it so changed the locks. About 6 months later I found one set in a toy bin in my daughters bedroom and the other set in the peg bag outside!!
Any way, In a pair of trouser you left at home?
On your head
...oh hang on thats glasses
In the usual place.
(Now where's that?)
Under the billabong.
Someone I worked with was late to work one because he couldn’t find his work pass. It was found some hours later in the bread bin. He had had toast for breakfast.
My old boss was late one day. Because he couldn't find his keys to unlock the door......
In the cupboard where you keep drinking glasses.
WOW, I've only got reading glasses, I'd no idea there was some available for drinking too.
I think I'd best speak to that optician of mine.
Hmmm… one person was pretty close.
Mine are generally in the first jacket pocket I check.
Sadly I only realise that after I’ve turned the house upside down and go back to check the first jacket properly…
Freezer?
Wellll
On your car keys.
Inside whatever the tow-hitch is attached to?
I’m afraid I have a real problem with this, putting something down then not being able to find the item three minutes later! 🫢
My car keys were a particular issue, I’d come home from work, start a conversation with Joey my sadly late partner, absent-mindedly put them down, then have no idea where the bloody things were when I needed them to go to work the next morning.
Jo would get very cross!
I subsequently bought a couple of AirTags, but sadly in the meantime Joey passed away, so I haven’t mislaid my keys because I haven’t anyone to distract me when I get home, I go straight upstairs to change out of my work clothes and put my keys on the dresser first of all.
Doesn’t mean I won’t put the damn things down somewhere else and forget where, it’s sadly all too likely, which is why the AirTag is still firmly attached to them!
I managed to lose my wallet once, it slipped out of my pocket when I took a car to our remote storage area. It was one car among nearly a thousand others, and I couldn’t recall which car it might have been, I’d taken at least half a dozen down.
The bloke on security was required to make a note of the car registration and its location; so far, so good. His writing was illegible, even he couldn’t read his own writing!
It did turn up, third car along the first row my team leader and I started looking along. That’s got a tracker inside now, I don’t want to have that situation again.
Then there was the time I lost my car in Swindon…
Washing machine
Reminds me of a Terry Pratchett quote:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Washing machine?
I'm constantly surprised how waterproof the remote is for my car alarm.
(Might be why they're called Toad.)
More than once seen/heard my keys taunting me from the other side of the perspex door that thou shalt not open until the white box reluctantly agrees to release the latch.
Ah, beaten to it
In the hood of the coat you took off when you got home and hung up in the understairs cupboard before panicking a couple of days later that you might have dropped your door tow hitch keys outside the front door tow hitch fitting and rushed out to buy new lock barrels before going to work pulling the hood up and being smacked on the head by the missing keys?
Dunno but I never did find my spoke key so if you could share where you found them maybe it’ll give me a new place to check.
@didnthurt - we have a winner. Singletrack coffee for you?
Of course I didn't check the rubber seal in the washing machine door the first time I checked did I?
@everyoneelse - some great ideas for next time I lose something. I'll check back this thread before I start looking.
... now, where on earth did the big stainless bolt that was also in the seal come from?
My OH lost her keys about 2 months ago.
I only found this out a month later
Still not found them (or made any real effort to look for them)
relying on me being WFH to get in and out, for the most part.
Its like living with a 10 yr old.
I lost a set of front door keys a couple of years ago - we'd headed off on holiday, had them to get back into the house then nothing. Changed the locks as was thinking they may still have been around on the street.
A year later, put on my day rucksack, something's a bit pointy in the inside - front door keys, I'd meant to put them in the small pocket in top of sack but they must have missed and dropped inside the foam padding sleeve inside the sack.
Drove out to a race once, with the bikes on the roof, secured with a cable lock. Got there, no key. Shoot.
Eventually found it on the roof gutter (back when cars had gutters). How it had stayed there along 40 miles of bumpy back roads.
Don't mention an engagement and wedding ring that got lost. We were away so wife hid them in an old sock. some weeks later, wife went to find the 'sock' - gone. She then remembered she'd had a clear out and chucked the socks ! Argh.
Went through the whole claim, valuations, then found gold had shot up over our insured value. Eventually got replacements. Roll on a few years and wife fesses up she's just found the rings by 'accident'
Roll on a few years and wife fesses up she’s just found the rings by ‘accident’
Oopsie!
Something else I have on my keyring is a little metal fob thing that takes several of those luminous Tritium glow-tubes. It means that if I’m up and about in the morning when it’s dark, or any time really, I can see exactly where my keys are and can put my hand on them straight away without putting the light on. I’ve got two main sets of keys, one which is my car key, house key, plus things like hearing protection, and the other doesn’t have the car key, and I have two Tritium fobs with different coloured tubes in, means I don’t grab the wrong ones in the dark.
https://www.tecaccessories.com/collections/tritium-isotope-fobs
I really want the isotope fob thingy now.
I can see exactly where my keys are and can put my hand on them straight away without putting the light on.
I have an image of you stumbling over furniture, stubbing several toes and making enough noise to wake the dead, as you make your way across a darkened room with your eyes firmly fixed on your Fobs. A voice in the background wearily saying "Oh, FFS, just turn the light on!"
Oh I need to get one of those fobs, our head of radiological protection will LOVE me.
I have an image of you stumbling over furniture, stubbing several toes and making enough noise to wake the dead, as you make your way across a darkened room with your eyes firmly fixed on your Fobs. A voice in the background wearily saying “Oh, FFS, just turn the light on!”
Well, they’re always on the dressing table, which is just at the foot of the bed, and sadly I now have nobody to share the bed with. 😢