I installed a combination lock on our garage. That was 7 years ago and I haven't been locked out since.
Many many years ago I was working as a Teacher's assistant at a college. After a long day of classes, and a long evening of hanging lights in the theater, I closed up and took my crew to pizza. I waved goodbye to the last of them and fumbled for my car key. No key. Oops, locked it in the theater. Theater building locked and I don't have a key to the outside doors. Neither does the one security person I can find. So I can't get my car key. I can get a bus home but my house keys are locked in the car. The house keys are in the car so I will NOT forget them at the theater (at least that part of the plan worked). It is now midnight +. Got a bus home with the hope that roommate would be home and let me in. Got home. Can't get in, roommate not home as I had hoped. Got second bus, the last one headed downtown, but it isn't doing it's whole route, it is going to the bus barn. Bless him the driver parked his bus and gave me a ride to a friend's house in his car. The friend was decidedly unhappy about being woken up at 1:30 in the morning... The next day I went out and purchased a snap-hook, attached my keys to it and hung them on my jeans belt loop. Since then I've almost never forgotten a key.
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Many many years ago I was working as a Teacher's assistant at a college. After a long day of classes, and a long evening of hanging lights in the theater, I closed up and took my crew to pizza. I waved goodbye to the last of them and fumbled for my car key. No key. Oops, locked it in the theater. Theater building locked and I don't have a key to the outside doors. Neither does the one security person I can find. So I can't get my car key. I can get a bus home but my house keys are locked in the car. The house keys are in the car so I will NOT forget them at the theater (at least that part of the plan worked). It is now midnight +. Got a bus home with the hope that roommate would be home and let me in. Got home. Can't get in, roommate not home as I had hoped. Got second bus, the last one headed downtown, but it isn't doing it's whole route, it is going to the bus barn. Bless him the driver parked his bus and gave me a ride to a friend's house in his car. The friend was decidedly unhappy about being woken up at 1:30 in the morning...
The next day I went out and purchased a snap-hook, attached my keys to it and hung them on my jeans belt loop. Since then I've almost never forgotten a key.
All of which is to say that I feel your pain.