And that's not all. The keys were not in the driver's seat, or anywhere in the front of the car. They were in the trunk. Let me explain: I was driving to the bank when I heard something in the trunk going BUMP BUMP every time I turned. So I parked at the bank and opened the trunk. Lo and behold, 2 bottles of Diet Rite so full of gas that the plastic was hard as a rock. So I put my keys in the trunk to take the bottles out and throw them away. Then I closed the trunk. Anywho, I've been driving for 2 years. It's about time it happened. When was the first time you locked your keys in the car?
I've done it few times and got pretty adept at getting in with a coathanger. I also locke my keys in the trunk one time and it was an old big car and I had to remove the back seat and squeeze through the x frame behind the seat and it was dark and I used a cig lighter to look for my keys and I could smell gasoline from the fuel vent. I finally got the keys out.
I can't remember when , but it has happened a lot. Probably back in high school shortly after getting my first car. It doesn't happen often anymore, but now that I have said that I'm sure it will.
Back in the summer before my freshie year of college (1984 ). I didn't know I had locked myself out of my car until I finished a graveyard shift from hell at Jack-in-the-Box. Luckily a police officer had come in for his morning coffee and he helped me out.
my friend did it last week after work, but another (very small) kid reached his arm in through the 1.5 inch crack in the window with a usb cord tied in a knot to hang on the lock to unlock it. Thank God for short people and old locks that were easy to hook around.
I haven't ever accidentally locked my keys in the car, but I have left them in there on purpose a few times (once when I was camping, and once when I was river rafting). My car has one of those code things on the driver's side door, so I needn't worry.
Did it a couple of times with my first car. Now I have a rule- keys are either in my hand or in my pocket; they don't get 'set down' anywhere unless I'm in the house, and then they always go in the same spot. Train yourself, like a monkey. It can be done!!
With the remote control thingie, I don't think I COULD lock myself out of the car. Funny story, though...when I was poor I was driving a Ford Festiva. Went to the drugstore for something...came out, unlocked car, started to drive away... ...and realized that the Festiva I was driving was not mine. Same color, etc...but not mine. But my key had worked perfectly. So I put it back and got mine, but t'was kinda weird.
I always carry a spare key in my wallet since the first time it happened, Man, I was really upset about it too! I was freakeing out! I'd locked the keys in, and it started raining really hard. I'd left the top down, too, and my girlfriend was getting soaked in there!
A few months after I started driving, I parked at Target to walk in and shop. I put my keys in my pocket, and realized I left my wallet in the car before I locked it. I jump inside, grab my wallet from the cup holder, and lock the door, heading inside. Later, I'm searching my pockets. My key ring's missing, and I find out it fell out of my pocket when I got my wallet. I, meanwhile, remember I had a second set of keys in my back pocket for emergencies just like this one. They were on the seat. Had to have my Absolute Emergency Key driven over to unlock my car.
I don't drive, but I locked myself out of my appartment twice, the keys still in the mailbox-lock. Thank god my neighbours were at home both times. I used to leave a key at a friend's house, but that's no guarantee. One time I had just come home from visiting my mom - 3 hours travel away - and I realised I had left my keys there. I called my friend, and sure enough - he showed up within ten minutes. With a tin can with about 50 keys in it. 'It should be one of these. Do you recognise it? " he asked. I didn't. Despite the abundance of keys, mine was there, so I had to go back to get it. That was not a good day.
Never! My car has biometric readers on the underside of my car's door handles so I don't need to use my car keys anyways.
I've done it a few times. I also managed to lock my keys in the trunk too. I put them down to do something, and closed the trunk. Another time, I had them in my hand. I used the same hand to close the door, from the top of the window frame, the keys slipped and landed on the seat as the door closed. Another time, I had the keys in the ignition, car running, closed the door (unlocked), the remote at the time (unknown to me) had the lock button stuck. So it was sending out the lock signal randomly. It locked the doors. I do lock my keys in the truck daily. It has a code pad on the door. I like it much better than the remote.
The first time I locked the keys in the car, it wasn't my car or my keys, I was shopping with my mom and she had me run out to the car to get something, I set the keys down on the seat and forgot them there, locking the car as I got back out. I don't remember the first time I locked my own keys in the car, but I did lock them in the car with the car running once. I've gotten very good at locking my keys in my car luckily, a spare is never very far away. My friend and I also locked her keys in her trunk once, we were camping and had set up the tent and she had brought along an air matress, she got it part of the way inflated only to find that it didn't fit. She decided that partially inflated would be better than sleeping on the ground, so I threw my blanket, pillow and purse in on the mattress. Then she decides not to use the mattress after all. She deflated it, and wadded it up with my purse still on it and threw it in the trunk. Now the last time I had gotten something out of the trunk, I didn't shut it all the way so that we wouldn't have to use the remote trunk popper button every time, and since it was open she assumed i had the keys and had popped the trunk for her, so she shut the trunk. unfortunately, the keys were in my purse... which was now in the trunk, and all the car doors were locked.
My first car, I locked the keys in it on the Lake Champlain ferry. Must happen a lot, since a crewman was right there with the slim jim, but still kind of embarassing.
I've locked my keys in 3 out of the 4 cars I've owned. The first was my Pontiac Sunbird convertible, I locked them in my car after a night of trailing my friend to some town I didn't know and didn't realize til the next morning when I had to leave. Getting the keys out was a whole other story. Second was my Buick Skyhawk at the Store 24 in Concord, a cop was around luckily. Third is my "newest" car, the Subaru Legacy, I spent about 40 minutes trying to go in through the driver's side door prying the window away from the frame and then gave up to check the door behind it and managed to pry that window far enough out to squeeze my arm in and push the lock.
I don't remember the last time I locked myself out of my vehicle. Now getting locked out of the house is a different matter.
"Hasn't happened yet," said O2C, glancing at the chair to his left, making sure that the keys were, in fact, there.
I locked my keys in twice in one day. Once in the morning, and once later that night. It was a bad day. At least I'm in the habit of locking my car.
