Always losing your keys?

Poppy9

innovate wrote:

OK, picture this. Two in the morning. You ring Halifax, whose number you have, naturally, programmed into your mobile, and the mobile is charged, and you haven't left the mobile wherever you left the key. Halifax answer instantly (yeah! two in the morning). Your key has been found, and some honest folk, keen to earn a tenner, have rung Halifax already. You can go and pick up the key now, because the guys who found it really want to stay up until you arrive so they can pocket the tenner. So far all going great (despite the many happy coincidences).

But oops, you left the keys in a bar in town, you live in a nice quiet suburb, have had a few glasses too many and the last taxi has just driven off after they dropped you at your locked doorstep. Sounds like an overnighter in the porch or the garden shed to me........a great end to a night out!

Yes but as you said your mobile is charged so you ring for a cab :rotfl:

Stop looking for problems. Better to have some contact details on your keys than none, otherwise you have very little chance of getting them back.
i.e. I found a bunch of car/house keys at the bottom of my drive. Nothing on them to say who they belonged to. My DD made some posters which she proudly fixed to the pillars at the bottom of the drive saying keys found in case someone retraced their steps. 2 days later signs wet and soggy so I was going to hand into Police station. A lady who lived around the corner said she had seen my signs and a few days previous she had seen a man looking for his car keys in a field near by. She wasn't sure where he lived though but she could describe his dog (doesn't say much for the owner). My DD recognised description of dog and said they lived in road opposite us but didn't know where (just 100 houses to choose from). After asking some neighbours if they knew where the dog lived we found the right house. His wife was really pleased to have keys back as he was putting off having locks changed as he was convinced they were in the field where he walked the dog and he would find them one day! Sadly they didn't even give my DD so much as a chocolate bar for her efforts

coolio_2

innovate wrote:

Which scenario are you talking about, coolio?

If you loose your keys, nobody can say you handed them to a stranger.

On the key fobs, there's no record of your address or name, so I can't see why insurance companies would object (especially since it is insurance companies, usually, who provide those key fobs)

Not the keyfob that gets the keys sent back to your home insurers.

The scenario I was saying is dodgy is the one the OP posted about.

You pay someone £29 a year to have a spare set of your keys, they also have your address.

innovate

coolio wrote:

Not the keyfob that gets the keys sent back to your home insurers.

The scenario I was saying is dodgy is the one the OP posted about.

You pay someone £29 a year to have a spare set of your keys, they also have your address.

Ah, ok, now I understand! Sorry, and yes, you got a good point!

innovate

Poppy9 wrote:

Yes but as you said your mobile is charged so you ring for a cab :rotfl:

Stop looking for problems.

You might be ROTFL - where I live, you do not get a cab between midnight and 6 in the morning, unless pre-booked. I am not looking for problems, they are already there.

I do agree with the keyfob thing - as I said earlier, I do have one of those on my keys. But a keyfob is no guarantee that you get your key back.

thespacecowboy

innovate wrote:

Ah, ok, now I understand! Sorry, and yes, you got a good point!

you give your bank your internet passwords, can you trust THEM?

And if someone DID break into the house (using a key) then who would be prime suspect?

innovate

thespacecowboy wrote:

you give your bank your internet passwords, can you trust THEM?

I think this is a very different thing alltogether - if something happens on a bank account because of fraudulent use of the access security, 1) it can be traced very easily, and 2) you are protected under the banks' T&Cs.

When you give your house keys to a management firm, there is much less that can be done to trace unauthorised use. Don't know whether and how the T&Cs of the management company would protect you in such a case.

sooz

or you could just ask your neighbour nicely to keep your spare keys, and you keep theirs. box of chocs whenever you wake them at four am blind drunk without keys, and happy street full of happy neighbours....also no emergency locksmiths' charges, or broken front doors.

belleooo

MSE_Jenny wrote:

While this isn't that cheap, bear in mind that average cost of calling out a locksmith is £127.

Hi,

I called out a locksmith when my key snapped in the lock whilst the door was still locked! He charged me £50, got the door open for me and I got a brand new lock and set of keys. I have a feeling that this was probably on the cheap side though.

laminki

man, you just gotta love this site!

shilling

sounds like the best idea, the shurlock or any other type of keylock that can't be easily opened. Mind you, my mate hides a spare key in the garden. Only HE knows where it is, and he hid it in the middle of the night. Great idea, unless you've got moles with brains!