By stadams1024 - 11/09/2012 20:41 - United States - Keego Harbor

Today, while I was leaving the grocery store, I realized my ignition key was missing from my pocket. After searching the car and retracing my steps, I walked all the way home. Later, when we went to retrieve the car, the key was sitting in plain sight on the passenger seat. FML
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stadams1024 tells us more.

I am the OP. Let me explain the situation more in depth since I only had 300 characters to do so before. My husband had lost his car keys, so I gave him my set and I took the spare lock key and the spare ignition key. I needed to get some groceries and he was at work, so I just went. Before I got out of the car to go inside, I put the keys in my sweatshirt pocket and got out. I got my groceries and came back out to the car, and yes it was in the same spot. I reached in my pocket to pull out my keys and only the lock key was there. I unlocked the car and immediately searched both the front seats, under the seats, in the cracks between the seats and even the back seat. I looked under the car and in the ignition too. I retraced my steps in the store three times and then checked my car again. I asked the service desk if anyone turned in a loose key, but no one had. I called my husband but he couldn't leave to pick me up, so I walked 4 miles home. The walk itself wouldn't have been so horrible had I not broken my foot a few months ago; it still bothers me, and there weren't any sidewalks half the way, so I kept twisting my ankle in holes in the ground. After my husband came home from work, he took me back to the store with his keys and I drove home. It wasn't until a week or so later that I actually found the key in the passenger seat, close to where the back of the cushion and the seat of the cushion met. There is no way I could have missed it when I searched for it and I had driven it a handful of times between the incident and when I found it. It literally appeared out of thin air and it still baffles me.

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In my opinion that is a win win situation, good workout and you also found your keys.

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tylermt1999 17

I'm not trying to be mean or smart but from the fml it seems like OP is the only person there. Which means he is the driver. So how does it end up in the passenger seat? I know my mom has her trunk full of work stuff but she can fit all the grocieres for 4 people in her back seat.

Well maybe OP was looking for something else before he went to the store and set the keys down to look for it?? Then again, i shouldn't be posting a comment like this for a statement so obvious and rhetorical. Reread your comment please. Maybe you were not thinking clearly during the making of your comment, but FML is a deadly place for those who are unaware of themselves.

pittyfinny 4

I'm just wondering why you would have walked home to find the keys. Didn't you need them to drive to the store in the first place? Wow.....

pittyfinny 4

And? Why would I read all of them and to make sure I don't duplicate? Thanks for pointing that out you must have alot of time on your hands

TheyCallMeDamien 17
Swampfox0038 3

I still don't understand how your car was not stolen.

Meow_Bitches 7

If the car was unlocked so you could get into it... Wouldnt you still suppose that the keys were still IN the car? :/

day624 14

So, you drive to the grocery store, and unlock your car... You can't find them, so you walk home to find them? I'm sorry... But you are lacking common sense.

Please refer to 51's comment and read the reply. That should answer your question

gmc_blossom 21

Yeah, the key that ignites the car. No, seriously. That's what it does.