Today, I have to pay my college an extra $1000 because there is a $20 charge every time you get locked out of your room, and I have an extremely poor short-term memory. I'm also only allowed to have exactly one keycard at any given time. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I locked myself out of my apartment. I've just realized that I could have spent $30 on an Uber or Lyft to my parents' place to grab the other set of keys instead of calling a locksmith and paying $280 for him to drill a hole through my doorknob, rendering all my keys useless. FML
Today, I spent at least 10 minutes trying to get into my hotel room because my key card wouldn't work. I finally went to the front desk, where they came along with me, then politely informed me I was trying to open the room next door to mine. FML
Today, I locked my keys in my car. My spare keys are 45 minutes away in my dorm room. My dorm room keys are attached to my car keys locked in my car. Security said they would let me in as long as I had my school ID. It's on my keychain. FML
Today, I learned that when I start University next month I will have to either pay $900 for an all-access semester-long parking pass, pay $200 for for a bus pass that takes an hour to get to campus, or pay $100 to park outside campus and walk 4 miles to and from class each day. FML
Today, my sister couldn't find the spare key I gave her for my apartment, so I had to pay a $50 fee to the leasing office. Not 30 minutes after paying, she found the key. In her purse. On her keychain. FML
Today, my roommate who stays out til 4 or 5 in the morning each night got her key to the dorm fixed. I've been having to stay up nightly to let her in (my normal bedtime being 12:00) How'd they fix it? Turns out it was never broken she was just putting the key in the slot wrong. FML
Today, I had to call a locksmith because I got locked out of my apartment. It cost a total of $350 to break in and repair the lock. Not even 3 hours later, I dropped my only key in the sewer. FML
Today, I dropped my car keys down the elevator shaft at my dorm. I had parked my car at a parking meter, and now had no way to get change out of my car. It took six hours for someone to get my keys, and I now have a $75 parking ticket. FML
Today, I found out that I owed my school $0.20. They decided to charge me a late fee of $20 for deferring the intial payment. FML
Today, I did the math and discovered that every year, I pay the equivalent cost of a luxury car to a college that can't even keep rats out of the dorms. FML
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Top comments
Christina Winden 22
If you’ve managed to get locked out of your room 50 separate times you definitely deserve it.
Susan Yee 9
Invest on a landyard.
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Comments (44)
IrieStorm 9
You got locked out of your room 50 times?! Jesus Christ... Try and get yourself into the habit of checking for the things you need before you leave.
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
do what I do the card the wallet put the wallet in a breast pocket of a jacket. always use that jacket.
Sonotsuave 37
That sucks, I’ve been locked out a few times because my roommates either borrowed my key without telling me or I misplaced it. We never had to pay though unless we lost it and needed to buy a replacement key. To get back in though, I either had to wait for my roommate to let me in or get the RA on duty and there was a limit of like I think 5 times you could call them for that specific purpose. Luckily I only used like 2 or 3 times the whole year. My short-term memory is bad too, but if you have roommates have them let you in and make it a habit to double check where you place things and check the door before leaving.
Annebelle 1
In real life, a locksmith is $100+ a pop. Grow up already!
jbuckets_404 39
Me wonders if she was given a $20-charge receipt each time (in paper/ email) to notify/ remind her of said charge.... If not, then wouldn't the college be more at fault for allowing this to escalate unreasonably (in ITS favor, "of course")?
MitiMiki 16
You are in college and you can't keep track of a room key? I fear for the future...
Stuby14 19
As a RA I’m just imagining the horror of having one of my residents lock themselves out of their room 50 times in a semester... I can’t even imagine the level of frustration.
Jared Robinson 7
*Memory*
tenniemo 20
Maybe put your keycard in a lanyard and keep it on you all times. That way you can never forget. Or put it in your phone case or in your wallet.
Akitakat 31
Ok... this is just ridiculous! Charging so much money for BS things is one of the many things wrong with this world. Just like hospitals charge crazy amounts for every little thing or the government doing the same. It should not be tolerated.