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Keys?

shadowtippy

shadowtippy

Mar 13, 2009
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Lake Charles, La.
#1
I was looking through my junk drawer for some junk and ran across a butt-load of keys, I've got enough keys to qualify as a high school janitor. Most of them, I don't even know what they go to, other than locks. I've got keys to cars I haven't owned for 20 years. They seem to be multiplying, but I never see any baby keys. There must be a use for them. I guess I could make wind chimes.
BTW, it's a slow day here in my mind.
 
#9
In my old house, an interior door had a keyed lock that got locked. So I contacted the landlord (a relative) and picked up the 'extra keys.' Three and a half peanut butter jars full of keys. Many were obviously classic car keys, and none fit the lock. I think I tried about a hundred. It took about 25 minutes. By the way, those door knobs are pretty secure. I ended up punching/prying through with hand tools, and it took about 20 minutes.
 
#10
shadowtippy said:
I guess I could make wind chimes.
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+1. This is what I've always done whenever I find myself in possession of a buttload of keys. Then I bring them into the studio, use them on one or two recordings, and promptly misplace them! Why couldn't I just misplace them the first time around, instead of have them collect in my junk drawer?!?!?! I swear, I've gone through that scenario at least three times in my life: Collect keys, make wind chimes, lose wind chimes. Lather, rinse, repeat.
 
#12
Right now, I am carrying 17 keys, a mini-maglite, and a bottle opener. I keep my work keys on a separate ring from my home and car keys. I keep them all on a d-ring which I hang from my belt loop.

... thought I'd share. :)
 
#15
There's a great prank you can do. If you have a friend who leaves his keys lying around, just add one of your old keys to his ring once a week. If he already has a bunch of keys, it's gradual enough that he probably won't notice (after all, we tend to be focussed on finding the key we need, not examining all of them). After a while, he'll be lugging around quite a load of them!
 
#17
OtterOnBass said:
In my old house, an interior door had a keyed lock that got locked.
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My nephew rents a place that has a locked interior door. It's been locked for years, no one has a key, and for some reason they haven't broken it down.

Their cat will occassionally pull a piece of a dead furry thing from underneath it. He claims it's a dead possum, but what ever it is won't fit under the door. So they shove it back under, and the cat eventually digs it back out again.

I think it's creepy as hell, but they just refer to it as "The Dead Possum Room".
 
#19
Dave Klausner said:
There's a great prank you can do. If you have a friend who leaves his keys lying around, just add one of your old keys to his ring once a week. If he already has a bunch of keys, it's gradual enough that he probably won't notice (after all, we tend to be focussed on finding the key we need, not examining all of them). After a while, he'll be lugging around quite a load of them!
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This is some much better than a wind chime. I'll be doing this, thank you.
 
#20
Phalex said:
My nephew rents a place that has a locked interior door. It's been locked for years, no one has a key, and for some reason they haven't broken it down.

Their cat will occassionally pull a piece of a dead furry thing from underneath it. He claims it's a dead possum, but what ever it is won't fit under the door. So they shove it back under, and the cat eventually digs it back out again.

I think it's creepy as hell, but they just refer to it as "The Dead Possum Room".
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Wow. I can't imagine living in a house with a locked room. That's so creepy and strange. I used an awl and hammer to punch holes, and a screwdriver to 'connect-the-dots' and make a crack.
 

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