Keychain

[edg]

My standard keychain is heavy enough that I notice it when I have it in my pocket. It holds six keys (including a key to a padlock I don't actually own anymore - it was on a car-top clamshell that I took to Indiana and that was stolen by the workmen our landlord hired. I should probably get rid of that key), several customer-loyalty keyring cards, the ID card for my gym (memo to self: start going again), and a faded, rubber, one-armed Gumby. Since I don't like noticing it when it's in my pocket, I tend to avoid having it there. When I'm at work, it goes in the top drawer of my desk; when I'm at home, it hangs on the toggle of the floor lamp in the living room.

When I'm off work for a significant amount of time - a weekend, say - I can reduce the weight of the keychain by quite a bit; the house key, the car key, the Giant supermarket card and the gym ID card are on a little separable secondary ring (thanks, solaas!), so I detach the bulky part of the keychain and just carry the little secondary ring. This means, among other things, that I can usually carry it in my pocket without noticing it. That means that I don't automatically hang it on the lamp toggle when I get home. And that means that, when the significant amount of time that I'm off work gets too long, or when I'm really distracted leaving the house (today, for example, was paper-recycling day), I don't always remember to reattach the little secondary ring to the main body of the keychain.

The upshot is that I can't open my desk drawers or get into the supply closet today, because Gumby, all of the loyalty cards I don't use often, and my office keys are at home, hanging on the lamp toggle.

Le sigh.

Comments

[canaa.livejournal.com]

My keyring has five keys on it; house, door locks for my car, ignition for my car (yes, those are two separate keys, non-interchangeable), key to the white van, key to the grey van. Leti keeps promising me a sixth key, a key to her car, but has yet to follow through. It also has a small clip so I can clip my keys to things. I'm not positive why I'd want to, but, hey.

It's very unnoticeable in a pocket, and liiiight. The fact that I still have them rather than losing them somewhere is a tribute to my improved mental status - when I was younger, I lost keys like a seive loses water, and had to keep track of them by getting a wallet with clips attached for keys.

Of course, my next step was to learn how to lose wallets... :)

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

I need a keychain holder just inside my door. I can't count the number of times I've gone rampaging through my little apartment looking for my keys, grumbling that the place is too small for me to lose anything. I manage anyway.

[angelofwinter.livejournal.com]

At least you're not a genius.
And by that I mean total and complete idiot.

Which is what I am.
So in closing, don't ever toss your car keys in the car seat and then lock the doors using the power lock switch, because auto-unlock doesn't do a thing for you then.

(btw that was my attempt to make you feel better about yourself)

[edg.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

One of the things I actively like about my car is the fact that there are two ways to lock the car: if you have the key in your hand, or if you're inside the car.

Locking the car using the power lock lasts as long as the door doesn't change state between open and closed. If you power-lock the door while it's open and close it, it unlocks; if you power-lock the door while it's closed and open it, it unlocks.

You might, might be able to lock the keys in if you power-locked it while the driver's door was closed but one of the other doors was open, tossed the keys in, and then closed that door. I've never tried it, though...

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

You must try it! For SCIENCE!