I'm currently stuck in my porch

[Satisfiedkitty]

Because I picked up my work keys, instead of my house keys, and shut the house door behind me, before I unlocked the front door.

DS asleep, not answering his phone. Banging on the door not woken him up. Called/messaged a friend who has a key, but no reply yet.

Sunday plans gone slightly wrong!

Not to be a party pooper but as a pp said this is a fire hazard. Everyone needs to be able to get out of your house even if they can’t find a key.

I’d love to know where the op was supposed to magic a wire coat hanger from! 😂

Glad you are free op.
My sibling once went to meet a friend in Bristol who lived above a pub. He went to let himself out around 2am to go back to his hotel and found himself locked in the pub porch. It was pre mobile phone days so he spent the night in there and gave the LL a shock in the morning when he went to go out to get a paper.

😂

Glad you are free.
Just imagine how much harder it would have been if you hadn't had your phone with you.

When you see your Ds, get him to go into his phone settings and set your number as one that can bypass his silent setting. On my phone you star the contact so my list is siblings, parents, very close friends who may need you in the middle of the night to look after their child whilst they take one to A&E that sort of thing.

I am sure our phones also have an emergency bypass that if you ring it so many times from the same number in a very short amount of time it breaks through.

Whilst thinking about emergencies, there are settings in your phone that keep your phone locked but the emergency services can access a particular part where you name your next of kin. Now it does mean anyone can do this who knows how to access it but for me it is worth the risk, all it names is my husband and his number.

As someone who once did a teams call from my porch I can sympathise. I wasn’t locked in but couldn’t get into my house and it was raining.

If it is only a key for the outside porch door it doesn’t really need to be that secure as if you can reach the key you’re already in the only area that key gives you access to! A high hook would probably be fine where it can’t readily be accessed through the letter box.

I guess it depends on the size of the porch and what you keep in it but round our way lots of houses have small glass porches and no-one locks them, they just don’t keep anything of value in there.

Link to the denim dress, OP.

Glad you have been rescued.

Just need to see the dress that caused all this wahala!

I have a similar issue, I live in a ground floor flat and mostly look after the garden.... however, on occasion I forget to put my front door on the latch whilst I am nipping in and out, which means the only way to get in is via the kitchen window... The only issue is I have to use a a garden chair to get onto the window ledge as I have short legs and then brace myself for the jump into the kitchen... howeve,r I am also in my late 60s. The one thing I do wonder is that no one has yet reported an elderly female burglar, who tends to wear stripey tops...

I'm glad to see that you got in eventually, OP, but thank goodness that you have a food source on your allotment, so that you didn't have to starve! You do, however, need to start a campaign to ensure that all dresses (or just women's clothes in general) have pockets (preferably of a sufficient size for phones, keys and other paraphernalia). The lack of pockets in women's clothing is amazingly inconvenient!

I have been locked out of my house before, courtesy of a Yale lock and a front door that only shut when it thought it was convenient to (the rest of the time, I had to throw myself at it or slam it repeatedly so that it closed). I had to climb on my parcel box and shimmy in through a tiny kitchen window, which left my dog looking very surprised. An amazed neighbour said that I could have a career in cat burgling after that! Needless to say, I was his first choice of person to climb through a window when he couldn't get through a door 😁

I see your in now. I was gonna say do you have an Alexa device or similar to
play music through to wake up son. I’ve done that before

Our daughter did this, pre mobiles, I'd forgotten she was home from school and locked to outer door, she slammed the inner door before realising. She managed to attract the attention of a neighbour, gave her my work number and my lesson was interrupted by a Deputy Head who was laughing hysterically!

Sympathy from me OP- Nipping to the gym I picked up my spare car keys by accident instead of the ones attached to my house keys and locked myself out of the house. Lovely sunny day though, so on the way back from the gym I went to sainsburys and bought a swimming costume, book and a bottle of chilled wine and had a very nice afternoon after climbing into the garden over the hedge.

This reminds me of a time I was locked out and I actually had to spend the night somewhere else!

So , I was working through uni , night shifts . Finished at midnight . My son was at his dad’s , being dropped home at 7am. My DH is a really deep sleeper . I had my keys. I didn’t have my car - at the time , we were sharing . I used to take my DH to work and then go on with my day and collect him later. When I worked, I didn’t have time to collect him so he would take the car and I would use the bus. I got a taxi home from work .

The taxi dropped me home and I went to unlock the door- but my ( not so at this point D ! ) H had left his keys in the door and gone to bed. So I couldn’t unlock it . I was knocking but knew it was no good and at that time, didn’t want to wake the neighbours. I was calling him - it was summer so the bedroom window was open and I could hear his phone ringing just about - under the sound of his bloody snoring!! I had no choice but to call a taxi , pay £20, to go to my brothers house that wasn’t local ( torture as I can drive and I was looking at my car but I did not have the keys ) . I then had to wake up early to get home- another taxi as my husband did not have time to come and get me in the morning as he woke up at his normal time and it’s not a job where he can be late .

He was mortified and I was FUMING!

For goodness sake we need the 😂 emoji back

Have a thumbscrew lock on the porch, if you are in a position of being locked out again, at least you can get out of the porch. Much safer in an emergency.

I couldn’t sleep at night knowing I would have to find a bunch of keys, choose the right one then get it in the lock if I needed to get out in a hurry.

Pleased to hear you got out!

My locked out story was when I stayed in a first floor flat and early morning nipped out with the bin absentmindedly pulling the yale lock closed behind me. I was stuck outside my flat door in my slippers, jeans, t-shirt, no bra (huge norks) and no mobile phone.

It was cold and wet. dh (a tradesman) mentioned he was working that day in a street about a mile away. So I walked there in my fluffy sheepskin slip-on slippers to try to find him, it was freezing, it started pissing down (great look with no bra), found his van but had no idea which house he was working in so had to hang about shivering and trying to shelter from the rain until he came out to the van for something. Still remember how concerned he looked when he clocked me standing there shivering and looking like a drowned rat.

Took friend out for breakfast to say thank you. 😊

Regarding the fire hazard, yes, absolutely agree and it has been on my mind. The back door is accessible regardless, and is closer to the stairs, so I think I'd always planned that as my emergency route. Im going to rethink though.

I always have my keys on me out of habit - I left a pretty abusive relationship, and my counsellor said, even if he's not normally physically abusive, it is worth keeping your keys and phone on you in case you have to run. So I did for the two years it took me to get out, and have done since. It is literally the allotment dress that caused this!!!

It doesn't mean that when you look at the actual words, either.

Allotment dress

This is the dress

I once got stuck in my flat because the door knob literally fell off and rolled down the stairs. 😂 One half came off in my hand and the other made it a whole floor down. I was on my way out to collect my food order, which was 3 floors down at the front door. Very old Victorian building with doorbells at street level but no intercom or buzzer to open the door. So Indian delivery guy kept ringing the bell, but I had no way to tell him I couldn’t get out of my flat!

I eventually had to ring my ex-boyfriend 🙈 who came over with a screwdriver and waited outside the door until someone else in the building came in and found my doorknob and screwed it back into my door for me. It was very awkward and I was very hungry at that point.

Your allotment dress is lovely!

Except my husband is as colourblind as a brick 🤣

My friend did this but there was no one in the house and she had left a pan of beetroot cooking on the stove! She had also left her phone inside the house! Her next door neighbour who had a key was a shift worker and switched his phone off when asleep. Luckily it was during lockdown and there were more people walking outside. She managed to attract a passerby by shouting through the letter box who knew her slightly and the lady went and rang the bell next door to wake the neighbour up!

They now have a spare key in a key box in the porch as well as one in another box round the back just in case!