# Locker #86, you will be mine again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635 "2007-01-26T22:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/1 "2007-01-26T22:31:06Z")
More specifially, locker #86 at the gym (a Bodies in Motion at Olympic & Bundy in Santa Monica, CA). I enjoyed you for almost two months of uninterupted use every morning. But now you’re constantly in use every time I go to the gym, and I have to use your neighbor, locker #84, which opens to the other side and just isn’t the same. While contemplating my jealousy of your new occupant, I can’t help but think perhaps somebody locked you by mistake, and now you’re unavailble to everyone. (These are “punch-code” lockers, no locks. Could get locked by mistake or even maliciously). I just don’t know what to do. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/2 "2007-01-26T22:36:17Z")
The only thing to do is sit there all day and night trying every possible punch code combination. Hey, if you truly love locker #86… ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/3 "2007-01-27T14:47:35Z")
I installed a drip mat, hangers, and ski racks in my locker, so every year I want to get the same locker rather than have to re-install (plus, my locker is in a terrific location re. access, bench, lighting, and an alcove for standing skis up for a quick spray wax). This year I forgot to renew my ski club membership until the snow started. By that time, all the lockers had long since been rented for the season. As I was paying for my season’s pass (and metally kicing myself for losing my locker due to my own stupidity), the manager came over and said that they had saved my locker for me. YIPEE!! Just goes to show that it is better to be lucky than to be smart. ---
**Author:** ![Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/4 "2007-01-30T17:58:17Z")
I got it back this morning! It was so great. It was good to have my old locker back. AAhhhhhhh . . . ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/5 "2007-01-30T18:14:29Z")
Did it still smell like your locker? Is someone else’s musk still in it? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/6 "2007-01-30T19:17:09Z")
I wish I could get the locker above mine. But I was lucky to get an overnight locker at all, so I aint complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locker-86-you-will-be-mine-again/389635/7 "2007-01-30T19:50:15Z")
I love my locker. It’s smack dab in the middle and just below eye level, so I can see in when it’s open, yet no one just walking by can see through the slats when it’s closed. Good locker placement is one of those small windfalls.