Where are my keys?

[Zsofia]

I know I locked the car last night bringing in all those groceries. They're not in their basket, they're not near their basket, they're not outside between the door and the car, they're not in the fridge. My life has gotten suddenly much less convenient, so I need you guys to tell me where they are.

[twickster]

In the cupboard next to the cereal.

[fessie]

Your pants.

The first shelf you see on the way in the door.

Wherever your preschooler left them.

In the bathroom (did you REALLY need to pee when you got home?).

[The Chao Goes Mu]

Could you have locked them in your car?
Go through the list of groceries you bought and see if they were put away with something you bought. Check inside your grocery bags if you keep them.

Oh yeah, and check your garbage. I've thrown my keys away before. :smack:

Also, check behind things, perhaps they fell somewhere. Look in places you wouldn't possibly think they could be.

Good luck! It really sucks losing keys.

[TokyoBayer]

They'll be in the last place you look.


Sorry, I've got nothing.

[Soul]

Check the ignition on your car -- I've left mine dangling there more than I care to admit.

[DudleyGarrett]

They're in the FREEZER!!!

I've done this before.

[A.R. Cane]

I left my cell phone in my Dr's office last week. I was all the way out to the parking lot and in the driver's seat when I realized my mistake. I went back for the phone, returned to the lot and reached into my pocket, for my keys, to unlock the car. No keys, check other pockets, no keys, must have left them on the counter when I retreived cell phone, start back into building, get about half way when I remember that I was in the car before I remembered cell phone, maybe keys are on the seat, or in the ignition? I'm going to look like a real idiot if I go back into Dr's office and the keys are really in the car. OK, head for car, sure enough they're in the ignition. Oh well, I did get some exercise. Now I'm tired. Long nap when I get home.

[Ale]

Due to a series of events involving a chiguagua dog and extra spicy mustard they where quantum tunneled to a planet on the Orion nebula where they became the center of a cargo cult of the local, crustacean like, dominant life form.

Sorry about that.

[Mindfield]

[voice modulator]
Your keys are safe. For now. But if you want to see them alive again, go to the bathroom. In the medicine cabinet is a note with further instructions. Follow them exactly. Do not pick up the phone, do not look out your window, just take the note and do as it says. You have one hour.
[/voice modulator]

[Yllaria]

If you've run out of other things to try, try standing at the door you last came in, imagining them in your hand, and calling for them at least three times. Then stand and listen. Sometimes your unconscious mind will be so embarrassed by your behavior that it will cough up an image or feeling of where you set them down.

[Zsofia]

My mom said "Did you pray to St. Anthony?"

We're not even Catholic.

[nonacetone]

Look under your towels.

[Projammer]

In the refridgerator next to the milk.

[Missy2U]

They're on your kitchen floor. Probably close to the baseboards. They got knocked off the counter when you were putting away groceries and you inadvertently kicked them under the toe kick by the cabinets.

That's what I did anyway. Maybe you did too.

[Harmonious Discord]

In the freezer, because you put frozen away first, unless you had urgent need of the bathroom.

[beowulff]

Hey!
This is like that twilighty show about that zone!

[Rick]

Look in your door lock.

[Mooch]

I'll help you look for them, but if I find them I get to whoop you with them.

[CairoCarol]

So, you had the keys outside the car, because you used them to lock the car, right?

What about the door to the house? Did you use the same set of keys to unlock that door?

Then maybe they are in the door to your house.

(I do this more often than I care to admit.)

[betenoir]

Jesus has them. Once you find Jesus you can get him to give your keys back. (And then beat the hell out of him till he tells you were my debit card has gone.)

[Yllaria]

By any chance have you found them yet?

[Zsofia]

No, I'm at work. (And they're not in the house door, since I had to lock it by spare key this morning.) When I get home the first thing I'm doing is checking the freezer, though.

The BF says the cats probably ate 'em. :)

[TroubleAgain]

:smack: In the laundry hamper. In the pocket of yesterday's clothes. That's where I usually find my debit card.

[Santo Rugger]

If you've run out of other things to try, try standing at the door you last came in, imagining them in your hand, and calling for them at least three times. Then stand and listen. Sometimes your unconscious mind will be so embarrassed by your behavior that it will cough up an image or feeling of where you set them down.

Does that really work? Because I've lost (more than) my fair share of keys, cell phones, wallets, etc. I'm willing to try anything, but I want to make sure you're not yanking my chain here...

[twickster]

That's the worst thing about summer -- no coat pockets to check.

[A.R. Cane]

Does that really work? Because I've lost (more than) my fair share of keys, cell phones, wallets, etc. I'm willing to try anything, but I want to make sure you're not yanking my chain here...

I've found that concentrating of the lost item hampers the mermory process, instead I try to recall events and that usually produces a memory of where/when I last had the item.

[Silver Tyger]

Wherever you put down the groceries. Pants pocket. In your purse (well, assuming you have one). Or if you're like me, in the couch cushions.

Good luck.

[Yllaria]

Does that really work? Because I've lost (more than) my fair share of keys, cell phones, wallets, etc. I'm willing to try anything, but I want to make sure you're not yanking my chain here...
I've done it. Take that for what it's worth. It's not failsafe, but it does occasionally work.

You're actually doing two things. Just going to the last place that you know you had it and walking through what you were doing can trigger the memory. It can also position you so that you see where you set it down.

Calling is a secondary thing. I really do think that it can get more of your mind working on the problem. If there's someone else in the house, it announces that you are seriously looking for this thing.

And if you really want to find it, there's a third stage. I always hesitate to turn to it too quickly. I mean, usually what you're missing turns up as you go about your business, so there's not need to get too radical too soon.

Third stage - deep cleaning. If you do a truly deep cleaning, you will touch everything in the house and if it's in the house, you will find it at some point.

[Kythereia]

They're hiding under your textbooks?

(They could be hiding under my textbooks. *eyes room suspiciously*)

[Dunawake]

My guess would be in the couch, as my couch has eaten everything from cell phones to credit cards in the past.

Second guess, would be sitting next to your computer, because you are a Doper :p

[Eureka]

I lost my library card the other day. Found out it was missing when I reached for the library card in my wallet and didn't find it. (Yes, I wanted to check something out.). Put the something back, went home, inspected wallet again. Checked pockets-- all of them. Waited 3 hours, checked my computer bag's pockets. Found library card. Relief!

And a lot quicker than my mom got relief when she lost her camera bag--found hanging from a hanger mixed with hanging clothes--she'd retrieved hanging clothes, and so had Dad since she put the camera on the hanger.

[Ceejaytee]

This isn't you, is it? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20687668/)

FLORENCE, Ore. - A woman was arrested and charged with arson and burglary after police say she set fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys.

Sgt. Clint Riley of the Lane County Sheriff's Office said the 23-year-old woman later found her keys hanging from her pants pocket.

Remember, check your pants before you set your neighbor's house on fire.

[betenoir]

before[/i] you set your neighbor's house on fire.


Words to live by.

[simster]

You will not find them until you replace them... and then they will be right where you always leave them....

Damn gremlins!

[Mtgman]

My wife is pretty bad about misplacing her keys(usually in her purse or under some stuff on the desk). We got one of these (http://www.outletpc.com/c6821.html) and she says it was one of the best purchases we ever made. I wish we had spent the ten bucks on this thing before she lost two sets of keys, with transponder chip car keys(sixty bucks each), and wireless remote entry key fobs(a hundred and ten each). Now she just picks up the remote, presses her color, and walks through the house listening for the beeping. It's pretty loud and can be heard through couch cushions and car doors.

We put the extra locators on our spare set of keys, and my keys. The plastic broke on the one for my keys, so they're not for people who are rough on their keys(as I am), but it's been great for her. Just keep the transmitter in one specific place and only move it from there while actively searching for your keys.

Enjoy,
Steven

[Harmonious Discord]

Did you were a different coat?

[Zsofia]

Did you were a different coat?
Why, yes. I wore the heavy down parka. A bit toasty for 94, but beauty is pain. ;)

My mom found a set of keys at her place that we think MAY be my spare car set. Let us devoutly hope so so that the next few days might be a much-needed cleaning which result in finding car keys instead of a personal hell of getting rides and being sick of not having keys.

[Sunspace]

Are they on the mat in front of the outside of the door? That's where I found my key last week. It had fallen off my keyring as I entered, and I hadn't noticed.

[Harmonious Discord]

You better check the garbage before pick up day.

[The Chao Goes Mu]

Check under your furniture. All of it. You mentioned you had cats? I don't know about yours but mine are notorious thieves and will waltz off with all kinds of things and hide them under the couch or in the bed.

[Zsofia]

The cats only steal panties.

[Least Original User Name Ever]

Excellent...they're still doing my bidding...













What?

[zoid]

I have an absolutely fool-proof system for finding my keys – I give my daughter $5 to find them. I can search for hours and when I’m finally ready to cry, I break down and give her the $5 and in minutes I have my keys.


Funny how I always loose my keys when there’s a book fair or some kind of sale at school the next day. :dubious:

[betenoir]

Excellent...they're still doing my bidding...





If I agree to do your bidding will you give me my debit card back? I'm a great bidding doer. I do biddings like no other.

[Governor Quinn]

Have you closely inspected the floor inside your house?

[Zsofia]

Sigh. They are nowhere. They are "unkeys". They have ceased to exist. They are not in the freezer, they are not in the bathroom, they are not in the cats.

[Least Original User Name Ever]

If I agree to do your bidding will you give me my debit card back? I'm a great bidding doer. I do biddings like no other.


What if my bidding is for you to give me the debit card back?

[fessie]

Any chance you took them back out to the car with you? Say, you forgot you had them in your hand and set them down when you went back in the trunk? I lost mine that way once.

[Hilarity N. Suze]

Bummer. I just lost mine, too, so I know what a pain it is.

My plan is to accuse someone else of stealing them. I mean someone in my immediate family, not some bum off the street. This usually results in outrage, and then I find them, in a place obviously of my doing. Even that didn't work.

I know they're in this house someplace, after all, I got into the house, didn't I?

[blondebear]

Do you suppose there is a world where lost keys and single socks hang out together?

[betenoir]

Do you suppose there is a world where lost keys and single socks hang out together?

Yes.

[Projammer]

Do you suppose there is a world where lost keys and single socks hang out together?

And they steal debit cards to order take-out.

[CairoCarol]

I have now just lost a set of keys too. This must be some kind of subconscious empathy thing.

[chowder]

And they steal debit cards to order take-out.
They used to steal pens before chip and pin and they were expert forgers

[Nava]

I have an absolutely fool-proof system for finding my keys – I give my daughter $5 to find them. I can search for hours and when I’m finally ready to cry, I break down and give her the $5 and in minutes I have my keys.


Funny how I always loose my keys when there’s a book fair or some kind of sale at school the next day. :dubious:

Wonder if I could start charging Mom for helping her find her keys or her glasses. 1€ if it's in person, 2€ if she actually calls me on the phone to help her search for them.

Half the time whatever she's looking for is in the first place where I say to look. Pity it doesn't work for those two passports of mine she "put in safe places" (the cop lady looked at me funny when I went to report a lost passport for the second time in three years, she sure did).

Are your keys on one of those pieces of furniture you "never use"? Mom keeps leaving her glasses on top of shelves that she swears she never uses.

[betenoir]

"put in safe places" .

Do you have that to? In my family "put it in a safe place" always means "I no longer have any idea where it is".

Oh and hate to think what will happen to the socks when the keys find out they came back with a debit card that currently doesn't have a balance enough to pay for dumplings and fried rice.

[Harmonious Discord]

There are more than one type of these out there.
http://www.keyringer.com/

[Missy2U]

Are they ON your car? On the roof? On the spot where the windshield meets the hood? On the trunk?

[Zsofia]

They aren't on my car (although if they were they wouldn't be now!) I picked up all the crap on one corner last night and will start on the rest of the living room today, but when I get home I'll do a hunt through the tall grass near where I park.

ETA - One does REALLY hope they aren't outside somewhere, as that would obviously be a huge security issue.