Have you ever been locked out of your home?

[AmbsPhillps]

I have , when I was about 10 , my parents hadn't came back yet and my brother wasn't back from school yet and so I was waiting about 15 minutes to get in.

Of course, several times. Thought everyone had at least once. Strange question, what made you ask?

More than once.

As a child, my parents helped me climb up a wall and through an open window to let us all in.

In my late teens, a friend who was staying with me locked me out (2 locks, I only ever used one of them but that day she used both) and I had to go into her office in London to get the key.

The time the key broke in the lock. Literally snapped!

Left my keys at a friend’s house and had to walk a mile to my mum’s because she had my spare.

And most recently, DH and I twice locked ourselves out of a top floor flat. Luckily, the first time, the neighbours knew us and let DH climb across the balconies to get in (thank fuck we left the balcony door open).

Then, the next time, the neighbours had moved out. The neighbours next to them on the other side didn’t know us but apparently we must look very trustworthy (or stupid). They let us go through their flat and climb from their balcony onto the empty balcony and then on to ours. We then went back with keys and two bottles of wine as a thank you.

We have a keypad on the house we live in now.

Oh, also when moving out of a raised ground floor flat. We had one box left and Mum got confused and locked the door with keys and last box inside. I had to climb through a window to get in. So glad I hadn’t done a final check and locked it at that stage.

And the month before moving out, I lost my keys and had to get a locksmith out.

Once when my ex was in, got pissed and locked the door and left the key in. Ex got thrown out the day after that, it was MY bloody house.

I've been locked in too, DH locked the door and took his key, not realising he had MY key in his pocket. The only day that week I was expecting a parcel and the postie looked genuinely worried for me

I managed to lock DM, DS and myself out in one go. I was bringing garden waste through the house from the back garden so both front and back doors were open. I asked dm to hold toddler ds while I did it. He escaped and followed me out to the drive and DM followed him and then the wind blew through the house slamming the front door.

I asked around the neighbours if they had a ladder so I could climb in the bay window but nobody did. Finally remembered that one neighbour was in the fire service so asked him . He said that he couldn't help as he was off work with a bad back but rang 999 for me (my phone was in the house). It totally made DS day when a fire engine arrived at our house.

No, because I have to lock the door when I go out, so I always have to have the key.

I have however been locked in, as DP took my car to work so took my keys with him, unbeknown to him his keys were also in his pocket from the day before, so he'd left me with no key to get out of the house. I could get out of the back door, but couldn't open the padlock on the gate as the key to that is on our keyrings haha.

I had two deliveries that day, and had to awkwardly position myself on the sofa to reach the very small window and get them to pass the parcels through!

When DS was a newborn, DH took him for a walk in the pram to give me some blessed peace and I thought 'Right, I'll just fetch the bin in and then I can relax'. Went through the front door, which shut behind me, wheeled the bin up the side, locked the padlock on the first gate (we have a semi with a gate at either end of the passage up the side, but the back one can only be unlocked from inside the back garden), and then realised that I didn't have my keys on me because my stupid maternity jeans didn't have pockets. So I was locked not just out of my house but in the space between the two gates, and I had to just stand there like a lemon until DH came home - and of course he was ages because he was trying to be nice and give me a nice long break!

Oh, and my friend locked herself out (also bringing the bin in!) while her crawling baby was in the house. She looked through the letterbox and he was making his way up the stairs for the first time ever, so she panicked and called 999 and the fire brigade came to let her in.

When I became a single parent I installed a key safe with a spare key to make sure I didn't get locked out. It's come to the rescue a few times!

I got locked in at now-DH's house once. He was in a house share with friends and they'd all left for work while I was WFbedH. When I needed to leave to go home and collect the DC from school, I found that one of them had forgotten I was there and double-locked the door. It was an upstairs maisonette so I had to go out through the balcony, climb down a tree into the ground-floor's back garden, climb over the garden wall, walk down a tow path to a pub and get back to the front of the house via the pub's beer garden. I was quite pleased with myself for my daring escape.

Went to let a friend into my new place, stepped out onto the front to wave at him and the door slammed shut behind me. Luckily the bathroom vent window were on the latch –he gave me a leg up and I just about managed to fit through, scaling the wall face first to the toilet! Bloody lucky really as the landlord was in another city and I'd already had a few issues that he'd attended to!

At the supermarket. I'd only opened the car boot so the doors were still locked, I put all the shopping in the boot, chucked in my handbag with keys inside keys and slammed the boot lid and went off to return the trolley with DS in it. Of course got back to the car and had no way to get in, and couldn't carry DS home and couldn't have got in anyway.
Luckily I had my phone and DH called our neighbour bless her who used her key to get into our house, find the spare car key and she drove over to rescue us.

Yes lots of times .
Leave keys with friends now.
When younger I'd climb a ladder to upstairs window and use handle of child's umbrella to open it and climb in !!!