Desperate for help (Birmingham, Twitter, car keys, NCP)

[LostCarKeys]

AIBU to beg for help from strangers on the internet?

I’m on holiday in Birmingham with three kids. I parked in an NCP car park on Monday night and we’ve been staying in a car park since.

We checked out this morning to leave and head home (Brighton) via Coventry to see my Nan (90 years old).

I can’t find my car keys 🤦🏻‍♀️

I hope you are okay now Op and aren’t too shaken from todays events.

It might be good to get key insurance added to existing insurance or try a 3rd party like Keycare and add a tile to your keys in the future.

I actually have a purse with an internal key ring so it’s harder to misplace.
A cheap alternative is to add bells ( the local police team gave me some ) to add on my purse to deter pick pockets.

I once threw my car keys into a McDonald's bin when I scraped the tray into it. I didn't realise until hours later

My car insurance provides replacement key coverage, worth checking this to at least cover some of the AA costs 🤞

In the boot? That happened to me once

I once came home from a hotel and my door keys were missing. I emptied every pocket of my bag out on the doorstep... nothing. I drove back to the hotel and checked every inch of the room... nothing. I emptied bag again... nothing. Got back in the car and emptied bag for 3rd time onto passenger seat. Keys appeared!!! Mad.

Hoping you're on your way, OP, and that you all recover from the stress of it all quickly

Did you have to dig though the bin?

I bought a replacement key recently from a main dealer. I think it was £250ish and I had to show the V5, even though I had one key. Hope AA have done the trick and your nightmare is over.

Rude

Any update?
@LostCarKeys

Don't just tip bags out, squeeze around inside and out, feel if they're stuck in a pocket or lining or under a stiffener at the bottom somewhere.

£10 says you find it shortly after the AA bloke sorts you a new key.

Hope you got sorted

Lining of coat is worth considering. I have a hole in one coat pocket inside it and if I forget and u se it keys slip right inside the lining and almost disappear in its bottomless pit. Car breakdown cover might cover putting it on a van still locked and taking you and the car back to you home.

Is there a tear in the lining of your bag? I've found things years later that had slipped beneath the lining.

This won't help you now but: When I travel by car, I hide a spare key somewhere in my luggage, in case I lose the main set.

So sorry you are being hit with this extra expense. I hope you get to see your Nan. Can you spend one extra night in the hotel? I know it's a cost.

I hope you're home. It's so stressful when something like this happens!

Someone I know lost their car keys, had to get their car towed home, afterwards found the keys in the spare wheel well in the boot, under the spare wheel.

A customer did this when I worked in McD's during the 90s.
I looked through the bins until I found them.

I've dug more keys, phones, dental aids (retainers, dentures) and wallets front McDonald's bins than I care to remember 🙈😂

YABU for going to Birmingham for a holiday

@DonnaTellMeThis
@Glitterybee

Trying to be edgy and funny or just downright rude?

So you tipped them mistakenly out of your bag since you've been in Birmingham . They aren't by the car then. You think you may have been in a shop at the time? Could you have handed them to one of your children to hold for a moment and they've put them in their back back or jacket pocket ?

I'm hoping the lack of posts is because the OP is driving home.

They're obviously twats.
Xx

My guess is that you'll find them in your raincoat. After you accidentally pulled them out, you put them in your raincoat with a note to self to put them somewhere safer asap