to be amused that DH locked me in the house.

[Babieseverywhere]

Guess I should be angry with him but this morning has been so funny.

I couldn't find my house keys this morning, so had to call a friend to take DD1 to school and had to post my five year old through a side window with her school bags etc.

DS's new car seat turns up unexpectedly via courier and again had to persuade delivery man to bring seat to side window, had to pull in seat through window !

We are expecting a King size mattresses and it is bound to turn up today and there is NO WAY it will fit through the side window. LOL.

DH has just rung to tell me that he has just noticed now at midday that he took my keys, cos he couldn't find his but they are "somewhere in the house"

At least I have a good chance of finding his keys in the weird places he leaves them now I know what I am looking for, rather than looking for my keys in my places IYSWIM.

I may be less amused if I don't find HIS keys by school run time, especially as I am not sure I can lift my five year old back into the house from the outside with my bump. Luckily friend who picked her up this morning, will bring her back if I'm not at school at 3.20pm, bless her.

Off to look for his keys...

For penance I think he should be doing the school run...

I would not be amused. What if you had a house fire?

Can ye fit through a window to get out?

ye? you even

DH did this to me once. Me and three DC were locked indoors until he was on his lunch break and could drive home.

Hope the mattress isn't delivered today.

"DH has just rung to tell me that he has just noticed now at midday that he took my keys, cos he couldn't find his but they are "somewhere in the house""

Surely this would be the sort of message you leave WHEN you take the keys, not several hours later?! for you. (but well done you for keeping a positive note to things! Hope you find his keys soon- and he should make you a spare key on the way home, for the next time he loses his!)

Oh dear :) I got locked in by my housemate as a student once...

Also when I was full term pregnant with DD1, DH had gone out (luckily only to Homebase or something, not for the weekend). I went for a wee, closed the bathroom door and the handle fell off. So I was trapped. I did briefly think about climbing out of the window (it was on the ground floor) but envisaged getting stuck in the window or doing myself some other kind of mischief. Also if I got out, what would be the point as I couldn't get in via the back door which was locked! So I reckoned it wasn't that bad a place for a 40 week pregnant lady to be stuck, especially as we had just had it done, it was quite nice! About an hour later DH arrived and released me

I'm fairly shocked that your house is locked so securely that you'll die if it catches fire. I say this as someone whose house did once catch fire and who remains shocked (lots of years later!) at the speed with which things went from manageable to very dangerous indeed.

We have a set of keys that "belong to the house" for this reason. The key for each door is on a nail somewhere near the door so that we can't get locked in in case of a fire. I would recommend you do the same too!

Do you have a back door? Or a mate who could change the lock?

Dh is an idiot!

Years ago DH did a similarly stupid thing with keys. He drove the car to work with me in he passenger seat. He got out and I slid over to the drivers side and set off to work 26 miles away down a long twisty narrow country road. Got there, took the keys out of the ignition to find he has used the set with his work keys on! He managed a filling station at the time and he had left the office, and shop keys in the car. Had to drive all the way back cussing him all the way.

I did this once to DP, I stayed at his house once and he went to work. Later on I went out, but I went out via the back door to check MILs guinea pigs. As I reached the front of the house I decided to check the front door and found it unlocked! So I locked it and carried on. He rang me up few minutes later and I said to him "You left the front door unlocked this morning!" He was all "Oh shit did I? Can't believe I did that!" then we carried on chatting and he suddenly went "hang on, I didn't leave it unlocked! I'd just come home for the toilet!"

Turns out as I'd been leaving the back, he came in the front and left it unlocked, and I locked him in when I checked it :o :o

Bil once locked dsis in the porch all day. Took her keys out of her bag for the same reason, and she closed the front door behind her before she realised. It was before the days of mobile phones, and she didn't get any post that day. She was forced to relieve herself in one of his trainers ;).

This worried me a bit. Isn't it a safety issue if you can't get out of a house without keys? How would your kids get out if you couldn't help them or if the keys were where say, a fire was? Or are the windows not on locks?

I dont think your matress will fit through the window , Im trying to work out how you are locked in ? i can unlock my front door without a key or did he lock the door when he left , anyway i wouldnt be angry just a bit amused by it all ,

PS. Why is it always men who do this sort of thing though? My ex used to take the nearest set of keys (knowing they weren't his) and then top it off by shifting the cars around on the driveway so he could take the one that "someone" - never him - had remembered to fill up with petrol.

It's not always men who do this sort of thing I accidentally took both of dh's car keys to work a couple of weeks ago (had been driving his car the previous day). When he realised I had to drive all the way home again (just over an hour) so he could go to work

I usually lock myself out or lose keys MY dh gloats he has had the same front door key for 18 years , whereas i have probably had 18 keys , the worst was at 6 am i nipped out to let cat in door slams , Mrs jay is in her Pjs which were un matching , oh the shame

I usually lock myself out or lose keys MY dh gloats he has had the same front door key for 18 years , whereas i have probably had 18 keys , the worst was at 6 am i nipped out to let cat in door slams , Mrs jay is in her Pjs which were un matching , oh the shame

Same as zonkedout we have a spare front door key on a nail for emergencies to avoid this. We also keep the back door key in the back door.

Glad you are finding this funny, I would be most cross if DH did this to me.

My flatmate did this to me once. I had to shout from the upstairs window to a passerby, gave him my work number and asked him to ring them to say I was locked in and couldn't get to work. This was in the 60s so no mobile and no house phone. I hated those front doors where you had to unlock the safety catch to get out!

Please don't worry about us, I found his keys !

Plus I can always get into the back garden but the 6 foot fencing and my 20 week bump prevent me from getting to the front that way IYSWIM.

Yes, he locked the front door when he left. He often loses his keys and uses mine to lock up but then posts my keys straight back through the letterbox. Today he forgot he had my keys and took them with him.

He is mortified that he forgot, plus I have now found his keys so I am able to pick up DD from school later on. Wonder what I should demand as payment...back rub, chocolate ;)

Spare set of keys would be a good start. Then whatever you fancy.