Went into our little town today to pickup some engine paint, bondo for the work truck and sandpaper. Told the kids we'll only be a few minutes and then we'll eat breakfast.

Get down to the parts house, the kids ate a snack bar and gave me the empty wrapper before we got out of the truck. I helped my youngest daughter out of the truck and we went inside past the trash can where I made a deposit. Grab our stuff, check out and get out to the truck, reach in my left pocket to grab my keys and what??? Where are my keys? Doors unlocked, ignition? Nope. Back in the store, look all over where we were, down one isle by the paint and back up through the tools.....no keys. Guys in the store ask and I tell them I'm sure I had them when I came in. We go back out, search in the truck high and low, nothing. Several trips back into the store and nothing. Call the wife in Nashville, she can't do anything. So I called a locksmith. He came out, told him the whole story. We end up taking off the door panel and pulling the lock out so he can configure a key. My oldest daughter and I are standing there talking and my head is a bit clearer now.

We run down through the whole thing again. In the store, out. Not in my pocket. I tell her I threw the snack bar wrapper out after I found the keys missing. "Did I stop by the trash can before we went in the store?" She says, "I'm not sure". Then it hits me, they are not in the store, not in the truck? Did I perhaps confuse my keys, during the wild three kid rush on the parts store with the snack wrapper? I look at the trash can and my daughter says, "ewwww". I said, "well it's worth a look". So I walk over and pop the top on the trash can, 2 boxes in there and sitting right on top of the boxes.........lay my keys!!

So I go over to the locksmith and say guess what? I found my keys......in the trash can of all places!! I told him to charge me whatever he needed for my stupidity and by the way, can you cut me a key?? He got a chuckle out of it and we put the door back together and we came home. I told my oldest daughter this will be a good story for her to tell her kids one day after I'm dead and gone.

Where's my sign????

 

I am ashamed to say that I have locked my keys in the car with the engine running a couple of times....

It only took 3 times before I started caring an extra key in my wallet.

 

I must be just as stupid as you. I have thrown both my keys and my cell phone in garbage cans. Never called a lock smith but I still feel your pain. To top it off I don't have the legitamte excuse of being distracted by children.

 

everyone I know that wheels (including myself) has a key located somewhere on their truck that can be accessed from outside. Clip a key behind a removeable panel or above your spare, or somewhere.
Locksmiths usually dont like to show up anytime you say "After you lock in 4 low, it will be about two miles..."

 

I've got a key zip tied up under the rear of my car. Never locked my keys in my car knock on wood.

But the first day I drove the truck I locked it, not thinking. Go do my stuff and come back to un lock it. Darn key didn't unlock the doors. Nothing a coat hanger and the vent window couldn't fix.

 

hahhahah

That happened to me also

when i bought the truck the doors were already unlocked.. never even thought to test it out.. drove truck home parked it behind house..left it unlocked.. drove to parst store lock truck to come out and find keys do not unlock door

went back in got coat hanger and pooped lock..

well my locks work now

 

For those of you that regularly lock the keys in the truck, the locksmith told me it is easier to open the right door than the left. There is less stuff inside the door. Took him a minute. $45 times 2.

Don't ask how I know.

 

If your truck has a remote keyless entry?
This may come in handy someday.
If you lock your keys in you truck and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. If your phone has it put it on speakerphone and hold your cell phone about a foot from your truck closer to the dash and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. May take multiple times to get the distance right. Your truck should unlock. It might save someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object.

Will not do you any good if you lost your keys but will work if you locked them in the truck.

 

No offence , but if you Believe that , I have a gold plated bridge for Sale for 5$ delivery included.