# Serendipity
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 29, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496 "2025-09-29T21:41:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/1 "2025-09-29T21:41:38Z")
Heh. I had to replace the electronic lock on the front door of our new house. Just another task. Needed done. Could not change the code.
Bought one, installed it and suggested to my wife that we should use the month and day of our marriage/anniversary.
I’ll never forget that day now. I have to get into the house after all. 🙂
It’s similar to my friend who got married before me. My mom is very artistic. She painted a standard building brick. It’s very nice with their names on it and their wedding date.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/2 "2025-09-29T22:28:58Z")
My husband would never allow me to use such an insecure passcode! Calamity!
He’s a bit ridiculous on this subject. I groused elsewhere about this. I was worried about getting locked out of the house in winter, so suggested we hide a spare key somewhere. Nope. Too risky. So I said okay, electronic lock, then. With a four digit code.
Good God, no! A 4 digit passcode is way too risky!
I said **Spouse Weasel,** our manufactured home ain’t exactly Fort Knox. If someone wants to break in, all they have to do is break the door. This isn’t about making the home more secure, it’s about _me not getting locked out in winter._
No, absolutely not. He compromised at a six digit code. Six fucking digits.
It’s been years. I’m still mad about it.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/3 "2025-09-29T23:18:20Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> He compromised at a six digit code. Six fucking digits.
There is only one solution to this.
You need to install another lockbox with a 4 digit code.
Inside it would be a piece of paper with the 6 digit code.
Twice the locks, twice the security!
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/4 "2025-09-29T23:25:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I said **Spouse Weasel,** our manufactured home ain’t exactly Fort Knox. If someone wants to break in, all they have to do is break the door. **This isn’t about making the home more secure, it’s about me not getting locked out in winter**.\*
Bolding mine.
That’s very funny, and very true.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/5 "2025-09-29T23:36:26Z")
> [@Reply](#):
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> There is only one solution to this.
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> You need to install another lockbox with a 4 digit code.
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> Inside it would be a piece of paper with the 6 digit code.
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> Twice the locks, twice the security!
Looks at previous house. Looks at 8x4 foot windows. Looks at all the 4x8 inch rocks in the yard. umm. Locks are pointless.
There was some sort of second home on a trail that you had to hike or ski too. Inside was a note that said “Welcome. Stay warm. Leave this shelter as you found it”.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/6 "2025-09-29T23:39:16Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> There was some sort of second home on a trail that you had to hike or ski too. Inside was a note that said “Welcome. Stay warm. Leave this shelter as you found it”.
And that stuff has literally saved people’s lives. There was an article I read recently where a woman went missing and a guy returned to his vacation home in the woods to find the lady there, and she just ran out and hugged him.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/7 "2025-09-29T23:41:36Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> There was some sort of second home on a trail that you had to hike or ski too. Inside was a note that said “Welcome. Stay warm. Leave this shelter as you found it”.
From what I understand, that’s a pretty common thing in alpine areas / cultures, right?
Here in Oregon, in the National Forest, some government agency (I think) provides similar “warming huts” on the trails and stocks them with firewood. You can snowshoe to them and then share a fire (and often a beer) with strangers.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/8 "2025-09-29T23:50:08Z")
It was an enclosed private cabin.
I’ve had similar experiences up at 11,200’ (wait until you hear about 5000’. HEY chess is not boring). But we lived 300’ below the top of Hoosier Pass. People would snow board and get lost and end up on our property.
“Need a ride”.
“Ummmm, yeah, and where the hell am I”
“You did not snowboard uphill. I know where your car is”
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/9 "2025-09-30T04:13:53Z")
> [@enipla](#):
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> Bought one, installed it and suggested to my wife that we should use the month and day of our marriage/anniversary.
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> I’ll never forget that day now. I have to get into the house after all.
If you forget that date, you no longer _need_ to get into the house.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/10 "2025-09-30T05:53:49Z")
My neighbor likes to remind me how longs he’s been married and his anniversary.
His internet connection pulls up on my computer. 😁
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/11 "2025-09-30T14:58:09Z")
> [@Monty](#):
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> If you forget that date, you no longer _need_ to get into the house.
OTOH you usually need to have made arrangements for presents & dinners and … whatever is your couple’s tradition a few days in advance.
So the issue isn’t forgetting your anniversary is, say, 09/30, but rather forgetting on 09/23 through 09/29 that 09/30 is coming up and preparations are needed. That was always my downfall.
With my late wife we also had the awkward coincidence that over a span of 3 days was an anniversary significant to me but not her, a saint’s day significant to her but not me, and our joint wedding anniversary. And damned if either of us could keep straight which was which unless we looked it up.
Once we had computers with ongoing calendars it was easy to set a recurring reminder for each of them. But back in the paper days we had some silliness.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/12 "2025-09-30T16:39:51Z")
I have always been chronologically challenged.
COVID sent me home to work (thank god).
Now though I’m worse. It’s Saturday? So? I’m one of the lucky few that it does not matter what day it is. I can work on any day at any hour (that’s a two edged sword) But I pick the time when I want to work. To steal from NIKE, “Just Do It”. That is the attitude of our entire team of ~20.
33 years at current employment. 72 days left. They will be filled with training by me.
The person that is stepping into my size 13 shoes is smart as a whip. I told her so this morning. So I feel good about this.
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### Author:  [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/13 "2025-09-30T19:04:09Z")
I know a couple where the wife’s birthday, the husband’s birthday, and their wedding anniversary is all the same date. Makes it easy to remember!
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/14 "2025-09-30T19:17:20Z")
That’s great. Makes things easy. “We are having a party” “For what” “Well, everything!”
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/15 "2025-09-30T20:39:53Z")
Good one. That reminds me of a couple I know who got married on her birthday. Not his though which was a few months different. Like the song says: “Two out of three ain’t bad”
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/16 "2025-09-30T21:19:36Z")
Hah.
Our door code is our anniversary. My Wife’s birthday is the same with an extra ‘2’. Got it pretty well locked in I think.
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/17 "2025-10-01T02:23:14Z")
I encountered this thread on September 30, 2025, which is the 30th anniversary of the day Ms. P and I met. It was at a 30th birthday party of a mutual friend.
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/18 "2025-10-01T06:40:57Z")
> [@suranyi](#):
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> I know a couple where the wife’s birthday, the husband’s birthday, and their wedding anniversary is all the same date.
That’s impressive. I know a couple whose birthdays are two days apart, so they got married on the day in between. Makes vacation planning quite easy.
As one of those dates is exactly one month after my birthday, it makes it easy to remember when something’s happening. I just don’t know which event it is.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/19 "2025-10-01T14:05:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> With my late wife we also had the awkward coincidence that over a span of 3 days was an anniversary significant to me but not her, a saint’s day significant to her but not me, and our joint wedding anniversary. And damned if either of us could keep straight which was which unless we looked it up.
My wife’s birthday is two days off of my ex-wife’s birthday.
Tell me that I didn’t sweat that for a number of years until I could finally remember.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serendipity/1023496/20 "2025-10-01T14:21:28Z")
You win the thread! 😁
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