Today, as I was closing my car door, I realized I had left the keys in the ignition. Not wanting to lock myself out, I reached to stop the door from closing. Not only did I scream when the door slammed on my hand, but in my furious pain, I leaned on the door, locking my keys inside. FML
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Today, I shut my finger in the car door. The door locked. Then I dropped the keys on the ground and couldn't reach them. FML
Today, I locked my keys in my car. I had a spare key in my wallet, that I also left in the car. FML
Today, I locked my keys in the car while the car was running because I got out to get the parking ticket attached to my windshield. FML
Today, I locked my keys in the house. I panicked so hard and immediately started kicking the door, desperate to get my keys. My boyfriend, who I forgot was staying over, woke up and opened the door right as I kicked it, and the door smashed into his face. FML
Today, as I stepped out the door and heard it lock behind me, I realized I had forgotten both my keys and my baby inside. There's no other way in. FML
Today, while driving, I realized I had left my phone on top of my car when I was getting in. Panicking, I drove back to look for it. I found it in the middle of the street, still intact. Yay! When I went back to my car, I noticed I had locked my door, and the keys were in the ignition. FML
Today, in a rush to get out of my house to go to a doctor's appointment, I closed the door behind me without having my house or car keys on me. Sadly, it took me less than a minute to break into my own house. FML
Today, whilst heading out the door to go to work, my lanyard got caught on the doorknob inside, and I watched my keys swing back inside as the door closed behind me. It was locked. FML
Today, I accidentally locked my car and house keys along with my phone in my car. Then I had to break into my own house looking for the spare. Someone called the police and I had to explain that I lived there. I forgot to grab the spare when I went to talk to the police officers I locked the door behind me. FML
Today, after numerous attempts, my car door still wouldn't unlock. After going ballistic on the lock, the key broke off inside. I then realized it wasn't my car. FML
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your_face 15
That sucks... you must have a really old car or something, most modern cars won't lock the driver's door if the key is in the ignition.
countingstairs 16
How does that mean he got them? could have posted from mobile or got towed home...
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Comments (66)
dragonmystik3030 0
#2 not all new cars do that. BUT most cars on the market today, can only lock while you hold the door handle in the "open" possision. all jap cars for the last 20 years, if you press the lock t hen just close the door the lock opens again to stop that happening.maybe op is driving an american car? update and get a better car lol tho my ex gf is probably reading this i will come clean to you. i locked my keys in the car while it was running cos i grabed the wrong spares from the glove box lol
wbrycem 0
I used to lock my keys in my car a lot. You don't really think about it when you turn off your car, it's just one of those automatic behaviours, and if you for whatever reason leave your keys in the ignition, lots of times you'll forget they're even in there. Or if you turn off your car and have to put down your keys to grab something, and there's a bunch of shit on your mind, and you forget you put down the keys until you lock the door and close it. Except you never realize you don't have the keys until just after the door is closed. Which sucks. It's like as soon as your hand stops making contact with the car door, the light goes off in your head lol. 12 - people can have their hands broken when they get slammed in doors ... so when you were six you would not cry if you got your hand broken? Sounds like your hands didn't really get "slammed" in the door.
elliekinslurvsya 0
ha. YDI. it should be pretty second-nature to pull the keys out of the ignition when you turn the car off.
brazillian_queen 0
get central locking...only way i solved this problem!
WPG 0
Ouch. It sounds like the person's hand was in the door when it latched, and was locked shut on their hand. To those people who laugh and said "fail", 1) people space out and do random things that aren't habits, like leaving the keys in the ignition, and 2) you obviously haven't latched a door on your hand before. It hurts like ******* hell. I have. Luckily, it wasn't locked so I was able to unlatch it with my other hand, and none of my fingers were broken, but it hurt so bad i felt nauseous and almost fainted later when i tried to move my fingers. I hope your hand healed fine!
AuriPantz 0
Why the hell not just open the door instead of not let it close? YDI
yanni222 0
YDI for having a car and YDI for having a door. YDI for having keys, too.
lizzilla8297 2
"not only did I screamed"? bad grammer.
rety1 13
you didn't have the warning buzzer that most cars have?.??.. even my car from 1989 has a warning buzzer when I leave the keys in the ignition and open the door...
dmmcintyre3 8
Not only that, but most newish (my 1999 Ford does this) cars won't let you lock the door with the buttons (but if you operate the lock manually/don't have power locks, you can)
3kmtg 7
Two words: SPARE KEY!!!