# Where are my keys? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221 "2004-11-23T03:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mirasawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mirasawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirasawa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/1 "2004-11-23T03:02:39Z")
I have a 600 sq ft apartment. I live alone. I couldn’t have gotten into my apartment without my keys. WHERE ARE MY KEYS? Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/2 "2004-11-23T03:04:44Z")
Umm, try looking where you last put them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/3 "2004-11-23T03:07:28Z")
Have you checked your inside jacket pocket? This is where my flatmate Daniel finds his. Have you checked your front door? This is usually where I find mine. :o Have you checked your hand? I know it sounds stupid but you’d be surprised. I lost a bracelet of mine today when I got out of the shower. I knew I put it on my desk but just couldn’t find it. So I retraced my steps, remembered I threw it onto my desk from the shower / toilet area and imagining the thing flying through the air I found it was exactly where I predicted it would land. It was right in front of me the whole time. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/4 "2004-11-23T03:20:08Z")
Ask the cat. Unless the cat is gone in which case you don’t need keys because so is your car. _Toonces the driving cat…_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/5 "2004-11-23T03:27:59Z")
Did you ask Jesus behind the couch? He’s always doin’ stuff like that, man… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/6 "2004-11-23T03:33:36Z")
Theyre ALWAYS the last place you look. Because once you find thm, you stop looking. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/7 "2004-11-23T03:34:23Z")
The bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/8 "2004-11-23T04:14:22Z")
What are you talking about? They’re right there. THERE! No, no, next to it. A little left. There! No! There! Can’t you see it? 😛 Try some place close to the door. A table, a chair. Somewhere within reach when you first enter. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/9 "2004-11-23T04:21:52Z")
Sorry, man. I hadda borrow 'em to go get a falafel. Sometimes, you just gotta have a falafel. Hope I didn’t grease 'em up too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/10 "2004-11-23T04:25:34Z")
They are always right in front of me, right in plain sight. Had they been a snake, they would’ve bit me… ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/11 "2004-11-23T04:31:54Z")
You left them in the door. :smack: (go look, they’re right there, hanging in plain sight on the outside of your door.) ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/12 "2004-11-23T14:16:14Z")
Check your garbage can. Don’t ask me how I know :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/13 "2004-11-23T14:19:56Z")
If you were coming back from grocery shopping when you lost them, check your fridge. Let’s just say I speak from experience. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/14 "2004-11-23T14:22:39Z")
Probably by my brush, which was missing this morning. I usually leave it in my TINY walk-in closet. Where the hell could it have gone? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/15 "2004-11-23T14:24:32Z")
If you have a hook on the back of your bathroom door for hanging up your robe, they might be there. Not that I would know that from experience or anything, it’s just a hunch. Really. I never did that. I never hung my keys up on the back of the bathroom door then spent most of a morning tearing up my house looking for em. No. Really. Didn’t happen to me. Maybe they’re convinced, now :o ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/16 "2004-11-23T14:26:35Z")
They are under the dish towel on the left hand side of the sink. ---
**Author:** ![Sevo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sevo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/17 "2004-11-23T14:27:19Z")
> [@Mirasawa](#): > > WHERE ARE MY KEYS? > Any ideas? Mariana’s trench? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/18 "2004-11-23T14:33:58Z")
One of my car keys has a little rubber clownfish complete with inflatable red rubber nose (it inflates when you squeeze the fish). I never lose that one. **Mirasawa** , how much _stuff_ do you have in your 600sf apartment? ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/19 "2004-11-23T14:36:42Z")
> [@Sevo](#): > > Mariana’s trench? Yes, but that was in 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221/20 "2004-11-23T14:40:11Z")
> [@nocturnal\_tick](#): > > Yes, but that was in 1960. For 20 minutes. And they were there just the one time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-my-keys/276221.md?page=2)