where my car keys are? I've checked all the usual places.

Have you checked between the sofa cushions/in the kitchen next to the kettle/in the pocket of the jacket you were wearing yesterday/in the half-light between this world and the next? - That's where mine usually are.

If all else fails, I know a bloke who knows a bloke who read a book on how to hotwire a car.

I try and avoid the underworld ever since I inadvertently let slip to the ferry man that I can't swim, but I've checked everywhere else. Very comprehensive list, but you did miss out the fridge.

In the olden days we could all hot wire a car, I even had a car that could only be started that way, sadly now they all make some horrible high pitched noise the moment you get anywhere near them, and this is a terribly respectable neighbourhood.

Go straight to the last place that you will look. Your keys are there.

In the car?

and the prize goes to:


delacuesta.

Naturally.

It's hard to call delacuesta a smart alec when he was actually right... but the thought did cross my mind. <grin>

Congrats on finding the car keys geg! I lose mine all the time, so I've gotten rather good at finding them. I have yet to leave them in the car, or in the fridge for that matter, but I'll remember those hints next time.

Next time you look for keys & check the fridge, make sure to look in the freezer as well-
I've seen it happen!

Though usually your missing keys will be found in the front door
where your friends find them while making surprise late night visits
& scare the life out of you- if you're lucky...

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Augh. I knew I shouldn't have laughed. Has anyone seen MY keys? (Told you I lose them all the time, but this time they are well and truly lost!) I got home, so they have to be there somewhere, but they are not in the door, not in the car, not on the hook, not in the pocket of anything I wore yesterday. They aren't on the counter where I usually leave them when I forget to hang them up.

They aren't in my purse or my lunch bag, not with my shoes from yesterday, not with my watch or rings.

I didn't open the freezer yesterday so they can't be there (although I will look tonight!) I will also recheck the fridge.

I'm hoping they didn't get left on the porch, since we had a big storm last night, and 2 inches of rain, and it's a new-fangled electronic car key...

Maybe the dogs carried them off, maybe I should check the Treehouse....

1) Do you have others sharing your household, apart from the dogs? They are the usual suspects.

2) If the keys are truly electronic, they might be traceable via some app on your handheld (or so I understand).

3) Are you really sure they are not in the car? E.g. in the back door?

(In my head you are Del, so) Hi Del, Thanks but nope, that's not it. The last time I lost my keys, it was because my husband had picked them up then asked me where they were. He *promised* it was not intentional. So the first place I looked this morning was among his 3 or 4 dozen keys. Not there.

So I got home, and looked around some more. Nope, not in the laundry. Not, thank goodness, on the deck, so the electronic one was not damaged.

<imagine Pooh Bear> "Think. Think. Think. What else was I doing!?"

Well, duh. For the second time, I had come in with the the dog's (no, plural this time, dogs') stuff, and had tossed the keys in with the leashes. So, in essence, the dogs DID do it, but only to my memory. The keys were right where I put them, as usual... underneath 2 leashes, 2 collars, and 2 harnesses.

If the electronic key is traceable by some app, I don't know about it, and I survive without a smartphone, so it wouldn't work. And that is somehow a scary idea.

I'm glad for you to have found them back even if my contribution was of little help!

I don't know where else to put this, and I know the point is to get off the point, so this thread will have to do.

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It's been 10 years since DNA moved on to the next big adventure.

I wonder what Jasper thinks of DNA's writing, and vice versa - does anyone know?

Oh, darn. I got back on topic.

I put it here as well:

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You'll see why...