Early start tomorrow again and working till late so I was making sure everything was arranged so I could just walk into my clothes and out the door when I quietly realised that I had no idea where either of my sets of keys were. “I let myself in last night,” I reasoned to myself. “So they must be in the flat somewhere.” There are about three places I put keys and none of them were tenanted.
We are strange creatures when it comes to habitual things. I think I looked in the same places three times in the same manner, each time with a sort of innocence. “They’ll be there this time,” I thought. Having no flatmate is convenient in instances like this because it takes out the instant “blame” mechanic. “X person must have moved them” leading to a text message saying “Hi, just wondering if you’ve seen my keys”. I’ve been managing that instinct in myself for so long now that I’ve pretty much come to terms with the fact that it’s almost always my fault.
Drawing blanks repeatedly I started looking in really obscure places. The fridge. The cutlery drawer. The kitchen cupboards. Historically I have once left my keys in the fridge and once rang my phone and heard it going from inside a kitchen cupboard so it wasn’t totally insane but it was scraping the barrel. All the pockets of all the jackets. My sporran.
Leaving the door open I decided I would try my car, and before I even got out the block they were sitting there looking at me from the mail shelf and I have absolutely no idea how that could have happened…
I bought the keyring when I gave this spare set to Mel. We both agreed it was weird enough that she would remember the keys were mine. Now I have to carry it around in my pocket… I need a new lock though as mine is literally falling out of the door, and it’s getting tricky having so few keys left. They are all copies now and copies of copies don’t work. Banham won’t issue the original again as mum is dead so I guess I’ll have to finally do my own key and pay the fortune they want to install it.
Glad to have them. Everything is laid out. Early bedtime and double job fun tomorrow! yay
AlBarclay 