Have you ever locked yourself out of your house?

[ImDMous]

When we first moved into our house, we locked ourselves out several times before we hid a key outside. The first time we got a window open to climb in, the second time I had to call my mom to bring her key.

 

[scrhsa]

I was a brand, spankin' new bride, I'm talking just days. We lived in a tiny little house just off the base in Pensacola, Fl. I had Christmas music playing and potpourri simmering in a pan on the gas stove. I went outside to get the mail and bam! the door shut behind me and it automatically locks when it closes. So there I was sitting on the front steps listening to Elvis singing faintly through the locked door and praying the potpourri didn't simmer out and catch the house on fire. Luckily, my husband usually got out of work at 1 pm. I had maybe an hour to wait. But no, he worked late that day. I sat out there about 3 hrs. I tried a neighbors but no one was home. Good thing it wasn't too cold and I had a sweat shirt on!!! No shoes though, just socks As he came driving up I could see the smile on his face. He knew exactly what I had done! Ahhh, what fun memories

 

[bellebud]

DS locked me out when he was 18 months old....slider patio door.
Had to get a neighbor come break the door jam to get in.
Always a key hidden outside after that.

my dd did the same to me! slider door, and she was about the same age too. After she locked me out, she started pushing the dining room chairs over towards the kitchen counter (where the knives were). I called 911 (had the portable phone with me) and my brother. I wanted to break a window and climb in, but I was very pregnant so didn't want to risk cutting my belly. The police officer told my brother to kick in the front door (the officer didn't want to be responsible, lol). DH came home late that night having to fix the front door.

 

[tvguy]

It would be impossible. My doors just have a dead bolt that you have to use a key to lock from the outside. Someone else could lock me out from inside, but I couldn't.

 

[indimom]

Once. I was going to visit DH on his second shift lunch break (around 9 p.m.) with our two year old daughter. (We didn't get to see each other a lot due to differing shifts so we'd go have lunch a couple times a week.) I was 7 months pregnant with our son and it was late December so nice and cold out. In the middle of getting coats on, making sure I had the lunch, gathering up the diaper bag, etc. I left the keys sitting on the kitchen table. So, not only did I lock us out of the house, but I also didn't have the keys to the car.
We were building a detached garage and had left an extension cord running through the basement window to the laundry room. The small window located at near ceiling height (luckily with the deep freeze sitting under it). So, I buckled the toddler in her car seat, slithered through that window on my side, and managed to reach the freezer as a landing.
Thank goodness I was only 27 at the time. I felt like a fat ninja.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Yes i did. I did not know any neighbors. I even tried to break the small kitchen window to get in. But I went around the corner and found a man who was doing work on the lines and he let me call my husband to come home and unlock the door.

 

[Squirlz]

I rented a town house for a couple years in the 90s. One morning I stepped out to get my paper and one of the cats ran out behind me. I instinctively slammed the door shut and it was locked. So I'm wearing nothing but a bathrobe, holding a squirming cat, trying to find a way back in. I ended up kicking in a basement window, threw the cat in then squeezed in myself.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Twice we came home to no power & couldn't get in as we go in through the garage. We now have a key to the walk-through door to the garage on EVERY key ring we own.

On one of the occasions, we went out to eat & power was back on by the time we came home. On the second, we noticed an unlatched window, popped out the screen, and went in that way. It was only later we realized the walk-through to the garage was unlocked the whole time (and probably for many months).

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Yes. This is the house where I grew up; in 2014 we had some remodeling done before DH and I moved back. One of the things we did was replace the doors, which have both a doorknob lock and a deadbolt. Even if the knob is locked, it will still turn, you just can't open it from the outside. So 2 days after we moved in, I went out to get the mail, and I rattled the knob as I closed the door. I just zoned out and assumed turning = unlocked. Luckily, it was summer and the windows were open...but the front windows are lower than the back. So I had to pull out a lawn chair, put it into the shrubbery and mulch, and pop out the screen (and pray that nobody saw me doing it). Even with the chair, I still could barely get a leg up to get over the ledge, so I had to fall in head-first. I landed on a heap on the dining room floor and looked up to find a cat staring at me like I was out of my mind...

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Oh, also locked my work AND car keys inside at work - alarm set, and all the other employees out of town for the next 3 days. I broke in.

 

[Diznygrl]

Yes, when I was a kid back in the early 90s, my friend's mom who used to drive me home from school would never wait at the curb to see that I got into the house before she would drive off. Like she would literally drive away the second I slid the door to her minivan closed. So one day I get out and as I'm walking up the driveway fishing in my backpack for the house key, I realize it's not there. Well, it's too late to get Minivan Mama's help because she is already long gone even though I have only made it halfway up the driveway at this point. So I sat in front of the door for an hour or so waiting for someone to get home.

Then another time, which wasn't my fault, but my parents put this really stupid double lock on our patio door that requires two keys. One for the deadbolt and one for the handle. Well let me tell you it is VERY EASY to not realize the door is even locked before it's too late (although not for me, as I'm pretty paranoid about such things in the first place so I've always made certain that it was unlocked before I step foot through that door.). Anyway, I had it unlocked and was out in the backyard reading when my dad comes out, his head preoccupied with whatever he was doing. I had a strong feeling that he had mindlessly flipped the bottom lock before he came out, thinking that he was unlocking it without really paying attention to the fact that it was already unlocked. Well, of course I was right. Thank goodness my bedroom window was open at the time so all we had to do was pop the screen off and I crawled in. After that, I had my own set of patio door keys made and never went outside without them again. Even to this day I don't like stepping out of the house without making sure I have a key, no matter how impossible or irrational it is for me to be locked out. Like the front door only has a deadbolt, so if I'm home alone and go through that door to take out the trash it is impossible for it to lock. But I bring a key anyway. To take out the trash.

 

[wenrob]

Yes, when I was a kid back in the early 90s, my friend's mom who used to drive me home from school would never wait at the curb to see that I got into the house before she would drive off. Like she would literally drive away the second I slid the door to her minivan closed. So one day I get out and as I'm walking up the driveway fishing in my backpack for the house key, I realize it's not there. Well, it's too late to get Minivan Mama's help because she is already long gone even though I have only made it halfway up the driveway at this point. So I sat in front of the door for an hour or so waiting for someone to get home.

My DD and her friends are grown now but I'll still wait at the curb to see them go in or stand in my doorway and watch them get in their vehicle. Seen too many Datelines in my day. Once her BFF did get locked out and I stayed until she climbed over the fence, let herself in the back door and waved from the front door.

I've locked my keys and cellphone in my truck a couple of times. This happened while going to the gym, I didn't typically carry a bag, would just bring in my keys and towel and hide the phone under my seat. (It was the 90s too big to drag around the gym). So here I am with no money for a pay phone and my phone locked in my truck. Someone finally took pity on me and gave me 50 cents, lol. After the second time I got a little tether for my keys I could clip to my shirt. To this day, I triple check I have my keys on me before I close the door on my vehicle.

DD has locked her keys in her car twice within a month, cost her $100 each time. She now has a key stashed in her bag, one in her work toolbox and one in her school toolbox. We just recently found out that it's covered under roadside assistance with our insurance.

 

[gotomu212]

When my son was 2 weeks old we had one of those really warm winter days and went out for a walk...with no diaper bag....and the power went out locking us out..about 30 minutes from sunset.

The locksmith said he's never had someone so panicked and so insistent about getting to a house immediately.

 

[Capang]

Walked out to my driveway forgetting my keys and car were not in the driveway but in the garage. At that time we all left our keys in the cars. It was never an issue. Couldn't get in the garage or the house. We kept our cars unlocked with keys in them but always kept our windows locked. It was about 11 at night so I walked a couple miles to my buddy's place and begged him to drive me half an hour away to my grandmother who had the spare key. I borrowed his phone to wake up my eldery grandmother to tell her we were coming over. I was so young and new to living on my own. Lesson learned.

 

[DisneyWorldMimi]

We were leaving for a trip to WDW and we had all gotten into the car and I found that my purse, which had the house keys in it, was still in the house. Since it was base housing, no smashing of windows. We found that the kitchen window was unlocked and so I was able to climb in and open the door. This same trip I read the map wrong, pre-gps, and thought we had missed the exit. I had us turn around and then found we didn't miss our exit. Paid for extra tolls that we didn't need to. Then I found I didn't have my pajamas. We took a friend of my DD's with us and felt that she didn't know what we were doing.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Many times when we were kids. Someone would just climb in the bathroom or kitchen window.

I locked my keys in my apartment a few months ago. Maintenance couldn't find my spare key, and my lock was so old the master key didn't work. They opened my door with a crowbar and replaced the lock.

 

[aprilgail]

We keep a spare key in the yard if we need it plus 3 of my neighbors also have my house key so we can just get it from one of them if we are locked out.

 

[disney4us2002]

We don't have a garage and the only way to lock the front door as you leave is with a key so nope, I cannot lock myself out.

 

[Heidict]

How about getting locked in a house? My DH and I had that happen at his grandfather's in Puerto Rico. All the houses are gated up. Bars on the outside porch, with a locked gate, bars on the windows. I was terrified of a fire happening in the house. Without a key, you weren't getting out.

His grandfather took off early one morning and looked the gates on his way out. We couldn't get out off of the porch or out of the house. Thankfully, this sweet elderly lady from next door came over and picked the lock for us. She was so innocent and sweet looking, put she picked that lock like a pro!! Then, after getting us out of the house, she picked the lock for the garage door and we were able to get our car out and enjoy the island for the day.

 

[aprilchem]

I've had to go in through the window a couple of times when the kids accidentally locked us out. We don't normally keep our doors locked, though (nobody does where we live) so it's usually not a problem.