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Locked out of the house

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Anon654321 · 30/03/2022 10:34

So this morning I thought I'd pop out for a baby with a coffee and forgot my house key. I had to call DH to rescue us, he had to leave work after he'd just gotten there and do a 40 minute round trip to unlock the door for us.

As if that wasn't bad enough, I then realised the door key had actually been in my pocket all along. Just in my trousers pocket, rather than my jacket where I usually put it, but still I swear I'd checked there!

I'd also already had a panic this morning thinking I'd lost my phone which I ended up finding in the wardrobe.

Is something wrong with me? Or is this what happens when you've not had an uninterrupted night's sleep for 6 months and have a huge mental load?

I feel so bad for DH, who wasn't even annoyed at me (or at least pretended very well that he wasn't).

Is it just me?

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Anon654321 · 30/03/2022 10:35

*pop out for a coffee with baby, not pop out for a baby obviously... what is wrong with my brain!!

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Justheretoseemnormal · 30/03/2022 10:35

I'd be more concerned that you popped put for a baby with a coffee 🤣

AmbushedByCake · 30/03/2022 10:36

I managed to leave the house without wearing shoes twice through exhaustion so I would say that only misplacing your key on one occasion is really not a big deal. Glad your DH wasn't a knob.

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Justheretoseemnormal · 30/03/2022 10:37

Sounds like you need a "me" day xx

Mumdiva99 · 30/03/2022 10:39

Baby brain....well known phenomena.....morphs into 'i have 3 kids, a job and volunteering how the f* do you expect me to remember it with the eleven billionty emails coming from school each day?" Closely followed by the menopause brain.

give a close friend a key
don't press send before reading things 3 times
check everything you ask of your partner twice
there are more tips but I've forgotten them.....

AHungryCaterpillar · 30/03/2022 10:42

We’ve all been there I locked myself out and had to climb over the garden wall to get back in 😳

FromOurHatsToOurFeet · 30/03/2022 11:09

I shut my car keys and purse in the car boot at the supermarket when DC1 was 6 months old. Luckily I had the baby still in the trolley and my phone in my pocket. DH ended up phoning our neighbour who let herself into our house, got the spare car key and then drove to the supermarket to give it to me. When I got home she'd already made me a cup of tea.

axolotlfloof · 30/03/2022 11:09

DS1 slammed the door behind me when I popped to the wheelie bin when he was 18 months. He was locked in, I was locked out with no phone.
Thankfully managed to borrow a passerby's phone, call DH, who borrowed a car and got home within 15 min.
It was a really long 15 min trying to console DS (once he realised), through the lounge window and the letterbox....

nomistake · 30/03/2022 11:13

Get a keysafe in case it happens again!

MadeForThis · 30/03/2022 11:18

Sleep deprivation is torture.

I've tried to beep my front door open with my car keys.

Duracellbunnywannabe · 30/03/2022 11:19

You need some apple air tags or similar. Sleep deprivation is the worst.

Talipesmum · 30/03/2022 11:20

It’s exactly what happens with a 6 month old, little sleep and the full mental load. Glad you were rescued!

I went out with mine on mat leave once and left the front door fully wide open. Luckily it’s a quiet area, and after about 30 mins my neighbour realised what was up and closed it for me.

And I drove into the next town, 20 mins drive or 45 mins on the bus, and forgot my purse (it was in the changing bag I’d left at home as DH was at home with the baby and the 2 year old). So I couldn’t get out of the multi story car park, never mind buy anything. Managed to find £1 coin on the pavement after searching for 10 mins and another coin right at the bottom of my bag so I could just pay the parking and limp home. Thought I was going to have to summon DH to come and rescue me on the bus with the baby and toddler.

Felicity42 · 30/03/2022 11:22

Don't worry about it. These things happen. I have a spare key hidden in my front garden. Maybe you could find a good hiding place at yours.
I found when I had a baby I sometimes didn't bring my whole handbag I might just pop my purse into the pram or something. So yeah things can end up in different places.

Whatafielddayfortheheat · 30/03/2022 11:23

I've left the car door open in the rain on the drive for 5 hours before (it was the side I couldn't see from the house obviously). I've put my phone in the washing machine and switched it on. I've lost DS's shoes and then found them in the fridge. I frequently lose my keys and can't go out. I think it's just mum life

BigSandyBalls2015 · 30/03/2022 11:24

I used to put weird things in the bin/sink ... like chucking the spoon in the bin and the yoghurt pot in the sink.

Also developed a weird block about checking the petrol gauge that only seemed to appear once I had given birth .... my DCs are early 20s now and I've still got it! DH often comes in and say's "have you really been driving about with the red light on".

JuneOsborne · 30/03/2022 11:27

I remember queuing up in the post office when my baby was a couple of months old. I got to the front of the queue and for the life of me I couldn't remember why I was there.

I left. Got home and in the hood of the pram was the council tax book. I'd gone to pay the council tax. So I went back, queued up again, got to the front of the queue and was so pleased I'd remembered I was there to pay my council tax. Except, I'd taken the book from the hood of the pram and left it at home.

I set up a direct debit when I finally got home again.

Greengiraffe1 · 30/03/2022 11:33

I'm interested to know if you told your OH the key was in your pocket all along, or if you continued to play along with it? 😂

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Anon654321 · 30/03/2022 11:44

@Greengiraffe1, nope! I quickly got it out of my pocket and onto the kitchen counter and said "oh yes, there it was!"

So glad it's not just me, i'm enjoying reading your stories! I just get so worried of what I might do next, at least today DD was wrapped up warm and I had my phone and money with me. Might not be so lucky next time!

As I walked out of the house this morning I was trying to figure out when DD was due her next nap, what I'd feed her for lunch, whether I'd planned enough food for DS' birthday party at the weekend, what decorations and presents I still needed to buy, which toys to put back in the loft this week as the living room is overflowing, and what admin was left to do for our trip next week.

All such trivial stuff but it saturates my brain!

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RB68 · 30/03/2022 12:08

I have a set of keys with neighbour but she is getting too elderly now and has just lost her partner so am thinking of a key safe - with several people in and out and doors that lock behind you you need a plan B esp if you have a baby reliant on you. My car broke down not far from home but too far for me to walk anywhere without the buggy for DD, which I had taken out thinking I wouldn't need etc that morning. I was really stuck as also left phone at home. There was a public phone but it was vandalised. I had just resigned myself to a long walk with an extra 3 yr old on shoulders when a very kind lady gave me a lift home, did I know her no, but I had to take a risk and gt in her car with DD for the sort drive home. So even if it seems OTT always have a plan b I say

axolotlfloof · 30/03/2022 13:24

I think key safes are great, both for this situation and when kids are older and want to let themselves in, but you don't want them to lose the house keys.

BertieBotts · 30/03/2022 13:27

This is my whole life, I have ADHD :o

But yes the same issues (it's a defecit in executive functioning which is all involved in planning and memory) can definitely be caused by lack of sleep. And that kind gets better. So don't worry!

IncompleteSenten · 30/03/2022 13:31

I don't remember having the sex that got me pregnant 6 months after my first was born. The one who didn't sleep for more than 2 hours at a time.
I honestly don't know how I found the time actually.
I should probably check if my youngest can turn water into wine. 😂

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