I lost my car keys

[Alpha One Seven]

Keys
Backpack
Wife's purse
Wife's keys
Camera bag
Car (cheap Lojack!)

Tiles are the bomb. They've paid for themselves a dozen times easily in all the time I've been using them. I hate the price & having to buy new ones every year or so (they do offer a trade-in discount), but they are 110% worth it!

Cheaper and more effective to use a system that always works. I haven't lost anything for the last 28 years since I started the system.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I had a set go down a sewer grate a few weeks ago. Caught on the inside of my pocket and went flying.

Expensive.

Had similar happen to me this week. I went to the bank drive thru and had to provide my credit card + ID to access my account. When it was time to drive off I crammed the cards in my pocket because someone was behind me waiting on me.

I got downtown and parked on the side of the road, and I was preparing to use the pay machine for parking charges. I opened the door and tried to pull out my money clip, but instead out flung my credit card and ID. The card landed on the sidewalk and ID went straight down the gutter.

Thankfully I could still see it sitting there since the water wasn't high flowing but I felt helpless. I was also screwed because I was walking to get my vehicle registered with the city and I was sure they would ID me. I went about a block towards my destination and saw some guys getting out of a van that said HVAC and plumbing and they were messing with stuff outside. I felt like a dick but I asked the guy if he could help and he had some pincher tool that was able to grab it for me. Saved my ass because I indeed did need it to register my car.

 

[Alpha One Seven]

You felt like a dick, so you asked for one? what?

You could also just hit a hardware or auto parts store and get a grabber of your own.

 

[Kaido]

Cheaper and more effective to use a system that always works. I haven't lost anything for the last 28 years since I started the system.

Wow 28 years, what's your system? No kids?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I lost my glasses once when I used to drive for a living. I looked everywhere. Since, I'm blind without them, I couldn't drive so, I started to call in to work. I figured I'd have a beer because I wasn't going to work. I opened the fridge and there were my glasses.

 

[Thebobo]

I lost my glasses once when I used to drive for a living. I looked everywhere. Since, I'm blind without them, I couldn't drive so, I started to call in to work. I figured I'd have a beer because I wasn't going to work. I opened the fridge and there were my glasses.

The quest for beer reveals much.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The quest for beer reveals much.

Amen. Hallelujah!

 

[lxskllr]

You felt like a dick, so you asked for one? what?

You could also just hit a hardware or auto parts store and get a grabber of your own.

A pack of gum and a found stick would have worked too. I was always good for dropping my pencil in inaccessible places. I use a folding 6' rule as part of my job. A nifty trick is to partially unfold the rule, and put a small pebble between a section that's still folded. Stick it down the sd grate, or whatever, and around the pencil. The pebble falls out, and the folded section squeezes the pencil allowing it to be removed.

 

[Craig234]

Day 3 of looking more in the same places.

 

[lxskllr]

Day 3 of looking more in the same places.

Why would you look in the same places? Unless you're getting trolled by gnomes, they won't magically appear where you've looked.

 

[Darwin333]

At the point of the tow and get a key made, but they're not open until Monday.

Pop-a-lock was able to make a new transponder key for a buddy of mine. Gotta be cheaper than a tow plus the absurd cost the dealership will charge you. Also are you sure you need to tow your car to the dealership? Maybe they can make one with the vin or something.

Edit: I see you said that it has to be made at the dealership. What year and type of car do you have and have you called multiple locksmiths?

 

[Craig234]

Why would you look in the same places? Unless you're getting trolled by gnomes, they won't magically appear where you've looked.

Because it makes more sense than looking places I didn't go with them.

 

[Craig234]

Pop-a-lock was able to make a new transponder key for a buddy of mine. Gotta be cheaper than a tow plus the absurd cost the dealership will charge you. Also are you sure you need to tow your car to the dealership? Maybe they can make one with the vin or something.

Edit: I see you said that it has to be made at the dealership. What year and type of car do you have and have you called multiple locksmiths?

Not yet - AAA determined that the only way to get a key made was to tow to the dealer. I'll check more to confirm that before doing it.

 

[Paladin3]

Kinda related...headed out the door about 10pm to pick my daughter up from a HS football game and forgot my keys. Locked myself out of both the house and cars and it's was 33F at the time. I was only wearing sweat pants and a light jacket and had an uncomfortable 30 minutes waiting for my daughter to catch a ride home and let me in.

About a week earlier I had gone on a mission to make sure all windows and doors in the house were securely locked, so I couldn't break in anywhere. I'm going to go get some extra keys made today so it doesn't happen again.

 

[feralkid]

Why would you look in the same places? Unless you're getting trolled by gnomes, they won't magically appear where you've looked.

Different lighting/atmospheric conditions.

 

[Craig234]

Different lighting/atmospheric conditions.

Actually, that's not it, being indoors mostly (though it was relevant to the car and outside).

It's more 'since the odds are high they're somewhere here, trying to find what I missed'.

 

[CurrentlyPissed]

Tile is nice, but it drains the shit out of your phones battery if you keep it active.

 

[Herr Kutz]

Where was the last place you saw them?

 

[Muse]

Because it makes more sense than looking places I didn't go with them.

I think there's a real good chance it's there but in a place you haven't looked because you "would never put them there." I speak from experience, of course.

 

[Muse]

A pack of gum and a found stick would have worked too. I was always good for dropping my pencil in inaccessible places. I use a folding 6' rule as part of my job. A nifty trick is to partially unfold the rule, and put a small pebble between a section that's still folded. Stick it down the sd grate, or whatever, and around the pencil. The pebble falls out, and the folded section squeezes the pencil allowing it to be removed.

I have a few telescoping magnets that have come in handy many a time. Also a long stick with a nail in the end perpendicular to the stick for those non-ferrous items, e.g. a lemon rolls under the stove.

My glasses know better than to hide in the fridge with my beers. Tsk Tsk.

 

[Craig234]

I think there's a real good chance it's there but in a place you haven't looked because you "would never put them there." I speak from experience, of course.

It's just I don't put them *anywhere*. They stay in my pocket.

So what that suggests is either, they somehow fell out in a *really* weird way that searching hasn't found, or were stolen out of the car if I left them there.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I've dropped some things in my car before and would look thoroughly not seeing anything, usually looking in between the seat along the edges, etc. Only until I used a good flashlight would I finally find the things I dropped.

So maybe try looking again in your car with a flashlight and see if that helps.

 

[Darwin333]

Sorry bud, but after this entire thread I think this happened...

 

[Craig234]

I've dropped some things in my car before and would look thoroughly not seeing anything, usually looking in between the seat along the edges, etc. Only until I used a good flashlight would I finally find the things I dropped.

So maybe try looking again in your car with a flashlight and see if that helps.

Thanks - I actually have done the car like 4 times, trying to look everywhere, fingers under the seat, etc. It's hard to see further... guess I'll try #5 in the morning.

 

[Craig234]

Sorry bud, but after this entire thread I think this happened...

Wrong.