if you must use a carabiner for your keys, make sure it’s a locking type.
Yes, how did you get in the house or drive the car? Aliens, I tell you! They get a charge out of screwing with us lowly hoomans!!
I have an uncle that did something similar. Back before keyfobs and smartkeys, he kept two sets of keys for his car. One in his pocket, one under the seat. Walk up to the car and unlock it, then put the keys back in his pocket. Then he’d get in and use the keys under the seat to drive, putting them back when he shut the car off. When I finally asked him what he was doing he pointed out that as long as he stuck to this he couldn’t lock his keys in his car.
That’s what I was wondering. Seems like an odd coincidence to forget your keys and have the door unlocked. Unless he doesn’t live alone, I guess there’s that.
Where I went to college the door handles didn’t lock, only the deadbolt did and only from the inside. It was nice because it meant that if the door was locked either someone was inside or a key was outside.
Do you have a rug at your door if yes did you look under the rug? I hate it when I drop my keys b/c even with a bell and dog tag and 4 keys on the ring I still can’t hear it hit the ground . I keep an extra house key and car in my pocketbook . I had locked my car key in my car a couple of recently ! If you can’t find your key it might be a good idea to have a new lock put.
One of the smarter things I did while doing some remodeling on my house last year was replace both the front & back door locks with combination locks. They have a key, but also a keypad on the outside that can be programmed to any 4-digit number, or several numbers. So you can set a special combination for repair people, good only for a specific day & time range.
Thus I don’t have t carry a house key at all anymore, just remember the code number.
I’m not sure how secure they are, with only a 4-digit combination. But they do seem to lock for a couple minutes after 3 incorrect tries, so that would make it harder to guess the combination. (I know they lock because the designer obviously didn’t come from an area where people wear gloves or mittens for half the year – the keypad buttons are too close together to press with gloves on.)
Once when I got home from walking to the store, I realized I didn’t have my keys with me.
I walked back to the store (since my car keys were also on the fob), certain that I must have left them at the cashier’s.
No one there had seen them.
Unsure of what I was going to do,I started walking home again. At one point along the way, I just happened to glance to my left – and saw my keys sitting on a low brick wall. It was then that I remembered setting them down there when I’d stopped to tie my shoe on the first trip to the store. :smack: But I’d passed by them two more times before something told me to look in their direction at just the right moment.
I’m like you, but my car keys never leave the ignition switch. *That’s *where they belong!
Back in the day, when car keys were 99 cents, I always kept one taped to the inside of a hubcap. That saved me a few times.
We have no keys to our house, so there’s no way to misplace them.
That’s…incredible. I’m jealous.
I live in New York City. ( And I drive a Prius which uses a proximity key fob ). Cannot even imagine leaving keys in the car.
I used to live in Orange County, NY. It’s got seriously rural parts and some seriously suburban parts. A lot of Orange County is just bedroom communities for NYC- and is filled with NYC transplants. Folks used to pull up to the gas station mini-mart all the time, leave their cars running and walk in to get their morning coffee and buttered roll.
Lunacy. They had this false sense of security- as though cars never got stolen up there.
As far as the O.P.: TRULY weird. How’d you get into your home? I was gonna go with the idea that the split ring holding the housekey stretched open a bit and slid off of the carabiner, and got kicked under the mat outside the front door. 
I put a keypad on the front door to the house this past summer. Should have done it years ago. Instead of hiding a key somewhere for someone to find, now all they’ll find is a vacuum-sealed 9-volt battery taped to the inside of the mailbox. Next car I buy is going to have keyless ignition. I’m trying to get to a point where I don’t need any keys at all.
I thought only the house key fell off the carabiner. What’s “they”?
It was the house key and the store and library cards. I’m still trying to figure out the whole episode. I live alone and am not in the habit of leaving my door unlocked. Wish I could explain it, but it’s a mystery to me, too.
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They now have keyless locks that connect to your smartphone by Bluetooth. Walk up with your phone in your pocket or purse, touch the lock with your finger, and you’re in.
I’m embarrassed to say that I locked myself out of the house once years ago and had to crawl in through the dog door. Fortunately, we had a big dog. 
Are you teleporting again, and just not confessing it to us?
We’ve talked to you about this before. People on this board obey the laws of physics, and don’t willy-nilly fold space and time, young man!
- Black hole
You left the house without locking.
You came home without the keys
You entered without unlocking.
One of my friends had measles at university. The doctor said “You haven’t done anything important in the last couple of days” My friend said “actually yes, I just had an exam”. The doctor gave him a certificate and he re-sat the exam.
We had a computer failure at work where there was no good backup, and the system was down for a week. Then the sys admin died of lung cancer.
I’ve got a work associate who is a pilot. He also never does email or writing when flying as a passenger, because it mostly has to be redone when he comes back down to sea level. Instead he watches in-flight movies, and cries. He doesn’t cry at sea-level either.
My guess is that you weren’t quite right on the day. It could be you were distracted, but you haven’t mentioned that. So my guess would be mild fever or low oxygen levels.
Couple of years back, we were off on an overseas holiday. Parked the car at the long term car park at the airport, flew to our destination, then on the day we were due to fly home I COULDN’T FIND MY KEYS…
Figuring I’d lost them somewhere at our departure airport, tried to ring Lost and Found but my phone credit ran out waiting on hold. Got friends in Aus to try to ring them, but they too were unsuccessful. By this time I was shitting myself: we were due to arrive early morning, with two little kids, and no way of driving the extra 150km to get HOME.
In the end, my dear son managed to break into our house, find the spare car key, hitchhiked to Melb the night before, bunked down in a backpacker’s hostel for the night and was there to meet us as our plane landed.
Got to the carpark, car was still there (phew) and it was unlocked WITH THE KEYS SITTING ON THE DRIVER’S SEAT where they had been for the previous 17 days. My son was not exactly amused you might say.
Well, we all breathed a sigh of relief…until I put the key in the ignition and the battery was dead.
Had a great holiday though!!
Jeez, Louise, at least you didn’t die of lung cancer because of no WiFi.
I often think guys have it easier than women in this area. My keys are always in my right front pants pocket, and my wallet in the right rear. If not there, they are in one of 2 drawers at home. Or in one specific pocket of my golf bag when golfing.
My wife does not always wear pants that fit her wallet and key. Sometimes she’ll carry a purse. Or a briefcase/totebag. Sometimes they end up in a coat pocket. Or the glove compartment. Or she’ll put them - who knows where - at home. At least a couple of times a week, leaving the house will be a firedrill as we try to track them down…