Keys

Keys...Keys....Keys....I watched Sex, Lies and Videotapes last weekend and in it, James Spader's character only wants ONE key - for his whole life. UGH how I wish that was true.

When we moved into our house (2 years ago) we rekeyed the locks - or rather, Mike bought 4 locks, had keys made for all and then put 2 locks on our house, one on the garage and one on the porch - all keyed differently. Brilliant? NO. Do you think he ever checked the dupe keys to make sure they worked? No (although, he claimed he did).

I digress.....so twice now, Mike has locked me out of the garage, making me have no vehicle or way to get to work. Thank goodness for cellphones and moms!

So, after being irate (once again) for having no key to get in the garage, I asked Mike to take all the locks and for once and for all get them all keyed alike. So he took them off and I proceeded to take them to the local hardware store to get them rekeyed.

They told me the rekeyer is not there on Sunday. GRRRR

So, I take one back - to put back on the house - so the house is not left unlocked - and they keep the locks for 3 days, with continued issues 1) not telling the rekeyer on Monday the locks were there - Mike left all the extra keys incase they need them 2) Tues regarding us dropping off the extra keys, when Mike already did - and 3) after all that, no called us to say that they can't REKEY them!

So, I get home Tues night, and Mike has a late class till 9pm and I find myself locked out (my key is still with them at the hardware store) - and since I just grabbed a random lock when I initially tried to drop off the 3 locks, I have no idea which one is still on the house. So, now, I'm locked out of the house after traipsing across the wet yard in the rain - the lock is NOT the one from the hidden key outside.

Off to Mom's again to borrow her spare keys. To finally get inside and decide to get on my computer and type this up and vent. However - my computer is DEAD. Goodbye my good friend. Trying to recall all the items I've lost.

It's now a week later and hopefully our keys are now being rekeyed by a respectible place....soon I will have ONE key for every lock in my house.

One Key :)