Ever lock yourself out and have to climb through a window?

[cherish44]

I did last night. Best part? It was pouring down rain. Yes. FAIL!

[jobycom]

1. Yes. My favorite part was talking to the cops 45 minutes later.

"Yes, officer, it's my apartment. Yes, I have ID. Honestly, it can't be that unusual..."

A real burglar would have had time to escape and sell everything before they got their, anyway.

[ohheckyeah]

2. The only time I locked myself out

was when I lived in a rental house. I used my credit card and YES it worked and I got the door open.

[murielm99]

3. I did that once in the rain, too.

After I climbed in the window, I had to clean mud off the wall from my messy shoes.

[elleng]

4. Yes, but daughter's boyfriend available to do the climbing!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Sorta... with a cute story to elaborate

When I was 4, my best friend was Betty Gillespie, who lived three or four houses down. One day at my house she wanted to pee and for some reason asked me to go with her. Our doors inside had little tabs on either side of the knob that you pushed to lock 'em. As Betty sat there, she said, "What's this do?" and locked the door. Neither of us could push the tab in the other direction, and my dad was at work, so my cousin got up on a ladder and came through the window to let us out. :)

[applegrove]

6. I was house sitting one time. I let the dog out and went out with him late one night. The door

closed and locked behind me. I left the keys inside and the owners were in Egypt. I tried to sleep in a shed at the back of the house. I had a cat inside that I had to feed the next day so I was tossing over in my head which window to break. I didn't know what I was going to do really and then I though...my grandmother had an old garage like the one on this property. She kept her extra key in the garage on a nail. So I went to the garage and felt along the wall (this was at about 4 AM). Sure enough I found a key to the house. Saved my ass. I mentioned it to the owner when she came back. She said she didn't even know there was a key to the garage. I was one lucky duck.

[NV Whino]

7. Yes

I got in so easily I decided it was pointless to lock the house and have never done it since.

(Disclaimer: I live in a rural area where no one can find my house anyway.)

[hedgehog]

12. My kids used to break in as teenagers all the time, so I gave

up locking the doors, too. Having 2 dogs seemed to take care of everything!

[Kali]

15. same here - never lock , very rural

just asking for broken windows - besides one look at this dump and they would run - sure as hell nothing to steal except cat hair and dust

[NV Whino]

21. Do you live in my house?

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Here's two worse scenarios:

1. Crawl through window and window slams down on thumb

2. Crawl through window (to avoid waking up other people in the house) and knock down about 10 empty wine bottles stacked on the bench under the window for some mysterious reason.

[dropkickpa]

9. Yes. Lots.

It sucks.

[Pierre.Suave]

10. Once

I locked myself out of a 3rd story apartment and the only way back in was via the Deck door. How did I get back in you ask?

well, it took a while and I was incredibly surprised the police did not arrive.

I removed all the bikes from the bike rack, then dragged it across the parking lot, set it on its side against the deck railing, and climbed up it to the deck, climbed on the deck and went inside.

Then, I got my keys, went outside and put it, and the bikes, back. Total time, approximately 1 and a half hours, in broad daylight. No police came to investigate WTF I was doing.

[carlyhippy]

11. definitely, a couple of times n/t

Carly

[SacredCow]

13. Not exactly....

A girl I was dating in college locked herself out of her apartment. The unit had some cheesy burglar bars on the windows, so she always left her bedroom window unlocked. I put my muscles to the bars and bent them apart so she could slide through and get back in the apartment. Then I bent the bars back to their original orientation.

My feat of strength must've made an impression. (Cue the Barry White music)....

[yellowcanine]

14. I climbed through the trunk of a sedan once with the car alarm dinging because I had hooked

the little doo hickey by the driver's door with a wire hanger to release the trunk lid.

[KamaAina]

16. Even better.

I once ran away from boarding school, took the bus and a train back to my home town, and broke into my own house through the window. Fortunately the front door had been left ajar; after that, it was the work of a moment to go through the little gallery off to the side of the landing, then in through the window.

Mercifully, it was not raining. The train station was all the way across town.

[Captain Hilts]

17. Yes, and anyone who says they haven't is lying. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Yes, but I pitched YoungerGreenKid in through the window so he could unlock the door.

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

19. More than once.

x(

Never in the rain, though.

[fizzgig]

20. many times

the most memorable was the last time i locked myself out of my dad's house. i'd forgotten my house key, so i used the spare key to get in but then the house key and my car keys inside. i had to drag the ladder out of the garage and climb in through a second story window, which was the only open window in the house.

what made it more entertaining is that i was wearing a skirt. i am amazed no one called the cops :rofl:

[NV Whino]

22. I've locked myself out of the car on several occasions

When I first moved north my life was chaos and I managed to lock my keys in my car three times in two weeks. I ended up dating the AAA dispatcher.

Then when I got the new Honda FIT, I locked my keys in the car on about the second day I had it. My previous car was a convertible and I never locked it and many times left the keys in a small hidey hole. The reasoning seems to have been, new car, better lock it. I forgot the second part of the reasoning--remove keys from car prior to slamming now locked door.

[azmouse]

23. We put a hidden lockbox outside.

It's similar to the ones realtors use to keep a key outside a house for sale. You need a 4 number code to get into the box even if it is found.
Now I'll never lock myself out of the house... again. :)

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. No, but here are things I have had to do

- Once, I had to get in the same way burglars do. This involved a slider door and the so called "screwdriver" trick. It's scary how easy that is.

- When our older daughter was 3 or 4, we locked ourselves out. She was small enough to crawl in through a cat door and unlock the front door for us.

[mnhtnbb]

25. My brother had to climb OUT a window once when the snow was so deep

couldn't get the door open...does that count?

[Left Is Write]

26. No, but my ex once broke into my locked apartment by climbing through a window.