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I'm currently stuck in my porch

141 replies

Satisfiedkitty · 15/06/2025 09:17

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!

OP posts:
Dahliasrule · 15/06/2025 13:10

Glad you are out. This happened to my DD and we had to drive 40 mins to rescue her.
she had form for this. Once got herself locked in her bathroom when the door jammed shut. Only had a towel with her and had to learn out of the window to attract attention and get someone to contact the letting agent to sort out a rescue!

Ihopeoneday · 15/06/2025 13:16

I once got stuck in my bathroom at 8 months pregnant with very severe PGP during a heat wave. The door handle broke.

I had to ask my ex to run a piece of string under the door which I let out the window and asked him to tie a hammer to. I pulled it up and took the extremely stiff door off its hinges. So so hard around a bump while in agony but no one had a better idea.

Then I got into the relative safety of the bath while my ex made a Kung Fu style series of running jumps at the door until it budged and eventually fell in.

ThankULord · 15/06/2025 13:17

Loving the allotment dress, OP.

I understand about the always having key and phone on you. Glad you are out of that situation.
Re: the fire hazard, do look into that. It's hard sometimes to balance safety from our fears of abuse (when you leave DV) and fire hazard.

My home was the same. What i saw was, it is very difficult for anyone to get in. And i was so glad for it and it swung the house in my favour.
I didn't see the 'it is very hard for anyone to get out'.

RB68 · 15/06/2025 13:39

a neighbor's son did exactly the same thing - only work keys when he went to go into the front door so was stuck for an hour or so shouting help occasionally through the letterbox if he thought someone was around, he was a way from the road though and it was only by change we had a neighbours meeting re planning so were walking home around 9 and as traffic had died down I heard him, his parents were away in Norfolk so miles away, neighbour with a key was alseep and other neighbours through they were DIY ing so ignored the racket he was making. I think they changed the door in the end.

One solution could be a keylock with spare set in between the two doors - Emergency only and not in an obv place?

Original poster
Satisfiedkitty · 15/06/2025 13:41

I've hidden a spare set in the porch, between the two doors.

And I've finally made it to the allotment 😁

OP posts:
smettings · 15/06/2025 13:48

That dress is very nice but should have pockets!

Be careful about what you think are well hidden spare keys. I suspect your average burglar is very familiar with the usual hiding places. Key box? Something (not plant pot near door!) in the garden? I'd tell you where we hide ours but then I'd have to kill you 😁

workingcocker · 15/06/2025 13:49

ThatLilacTiger · 15/06/2025 09:44

This is a deadly fire hazard and against the law in rented properties because it's so dangerous. You need to have a thumb lock installed on the inside of the outer door so you can always at least get out of the house even if you can't get back in. Be grateful this didn't happen as you were running out of a burning house.

Nonsense. Not illegal in the UK unless it’s an HMO or some holiday lets.

Latenightreader · 15/06/2025 14:34

I got locked in my bedroom! For some reason my bedroom door had a twist lock which I never used, but my daughter came in and started to fiddle with it despite having been told not to many times before. The lock must have had a screw loose because it came off and fell out on the other side of the door.

My house had three front door keys. I had one downstairs (thankfully not in the door), one was with local friends and the third was with the estate agent as my house was on the market. It was 6am. I left a message for my friends and reasoned that if the worst came to the worst I could ring the EA at 9am. My daughter and I breakfasted on a bag of fudge, and the water I'd brought up to bed the night before.

My friend rang back at 7.30, but her husband had the key and wasn't due home for several hours. She parked herself outside the estate agents, collected the spare at 9am, and apparently my answerphone message caused much hilarity in their office. She rescued us and I dismantled the lock once and for all...

madaboutpurple · 15/06/2025 15:08

I am glad you are sorted. I agree with other people that you might be best to get a key box for anything going wrong in the future.

FiveBeatRiff · 15/06/2025 17:53

Ihopeoneday · 15/06/2025 13:16

I once got stuck in my bathroom at 8 months pregnant with very severe PGP during a heat wave. The door handle broke.

I had to ask my ex to run a piece of string under the door which I let out the window and asked him to tie a hammer to. I pulled it up and took the extremely stiff door off its hinges. So so hard around a bump while in agony but no one had a better idea.

Then I got into the relative safety of the bath while my ex made a Kung Fu style series of running jumps at the door until it budged and eventually fell in.

Edited

This post is an excellent argument for reinstating the 😂 react button....

😂

Edit to add - assuming you meant to make it sound funny of course. If not, I apologise for my post, and I'm very sorry for the terrible day you had back then. x

Doris86 · 15/06/2025 18:26

This is why I changed the split spindles on my doors into solid spindles. That way the door doesn’t lock by itself, you need to have the key to lock it, and avoids locking yourself out (or in the porch).

Boreded · 15/06/2025 18:32

Hoppinggreen · 15/06/2025 09:36

Have you thought about bending a wire coat hanger to fish yourself out?

Are you suggesting a back alley abortion or an escape?

seriously though, why would there be a random wire hanger in the porch?

spiderlight · 15/06/2025 18:35

I did this a few months ago, in just my dressing gown. No phone or anything - dashed to open the front door for a parcel, shut the inner door behind me to keep the dog in, and spent half an hour trapped in a space not even wide enough for me to sit down properly because DH had just got into the shower and DS's room is in the loft and he'd sleep through a nuclear war.

Hoppinggreen · 15/06/2025 18:36

Boreded · 15/06/2025 18:32

Are you suggesting a back alley abortion or an escape?

seriously though, why would there be a random wire hanger in the porch?

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Why wouldn't there be?

However, as with most things if you have to explain it its not funny

GetMeOutOfHere20 · 15/06/2025 18:37

Oh I’ve done this twice! One time DH had to come home from work and my friends collected my kids from school - after i’s called the school to explain I was stuck in the porch. The second time I had to call out a locksmith.

ladymalfoy45 · 15/06/2025 18:47

I hope your raspberry haul is immense and you can make raspberry gin because you have so many.

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 15/06/2025 19:13

FuckityFux · 15/06/2025 09:30

Do you have any Alexa devices you can remotely operate?

Too late now for the OP, but I've used the app to make an announcement on Alexa when DP had locked me out and fallen asleep and didn't hear the doorbell or me ringing his phone (on DND) or the house phone, on a different floor from him.

mumda · 15/06/2025 22:55

This is my absolute nightmare.. I too have split my keys so potentially could lock myself in the porch.

ChompandaGrazia · 15/06/2025 23:09

There was a post with someone doing exactly this years ago. It descended into arguments with people who couldn’t understand that the op in that story had absentmindedly pulled the door to behind her and it had locked. So many people had never encountered a door that locked without a key.

My story is this:

We got a new car and drove it home and parked on the drive. I got out and got in the back to see what the seats were like. DH got in too. We didn’t realise that the child locks were on. We were stuck on our own drive!! I’m rather traditionally upholstered and DH is 6ft 4. I didn’t think either of us could climb through to the front but DH managed it.

Roomforapony · 15/06/2025 23:42

ChompandaGrazia · 15/06/2025 23:09

There was a post with someone doing exactly this years ago. It descended into arguments with people who couldn’t understand that the op in that story had absentmindedly pulled the door to behind her and it had locked. So many people had never encountered a door that locked without a key.

My story is this:

We got a new car and drove it home and parked on the drive. I got out and got in the back to see what the seats were like. DH got in too. We didn’t realise that the child locks were on. We were stuck on our own drive!! I’m rather traditionally upholstered and DH is 6ft 4. I didn’t think either of us could climb through to the front but DH managed it.

🤣

Suecee · 16/06/2025 01:43

If the son is a teenager, poster could be there for quite some time.

Our teenagers slept till they made up the sleep quota of every sleepless night/dawn breakfast they put us through as parents.

I seriously doubt whether sleeping sickness victims get to lay in longer!

LillyPJ · 16/06/2025 03:32

Lovely dress but could do with a couple (at least) of pockets!

FortyElephants · 16/06/2025 04:02

Suecee · 16/06/2025 01:43

If the son is a teenager, poster could be there for quite some time.

Our teenagers slept till they made up the sleep quota of every sleepless night/dawn breakfast they put us through as parents.

I seriously doubt whether sleeping sickness victims get to lay in longer!

You don't think she's still in the porch at 2am?!

JulesJules · 16/06/2025 05:56

Your raspberries are ready? Ours are nowhere near.

LillyPJ · 16/06/2025 07:09

JulesJules · 16/06/2025 05:56

Your raspberries are ready? Ours are nowhere near.

I started picking last week. Maybe yours are an autumn variety.