I got locked out of my apartment and spent the night sleeping on a park bench

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6 years ago 11/07/2017 3:41pm EST

re: son of ajax

Well, that thread escalated quickly.

I was just checking the site to see if any other runners had any idea how to get back inside their house when they forgot their keys.

Thought that it would have to be a common enough story and that people would have some insight.

Really trying not to spend the night on a park bench.

Saw this list of things to do:

https://unitedlocksmith.net/blog/locked-myself-out-of-my-house-here-are-10-things-i-did-to-get-back-in

Not sure where to start. Really don't want to have to call a locksmith, but no one who has a spare key is picking up their phone.

Any insight would be great... I might just go on another run in the meantime.

3 years ago 07/05/2020 3:28pm EDT

re: hmmmmmmmm

The worst is getting locked out of your car.

3 years ago 07/05/2020 3:53pm EDT

re: A real fine example

A real fine example wrote:
This happened to me once, so I walked to a track with a high jump pit that was open, and slept beneath the top cushion cover.
Had a great nights sleep...until people started jogging laps at...4AM!! (It was at UCLA)

How did the runners react? Surprised? Or were they used to that sort of thing?

3 years ago 07/05/2020 4:01pm EDT

re: Stagger Lee

Stagger Lee wrote:
I've been hammered many times over the years and have had to improvise...sleeping in car, nice spot under a tree, etc. My point? 12 hours? Outside, in the summer, and in the environment where a sweatshirt can be purchased? Call me underwhelmed. I could just go sleep on a bench for the hell of it.

You’ve been drunk and slept under a tree? Was there literally nowhere else to go? Were you concerned about bears or other deadly animals?

3 years ago 07/05/2020 5:39pm EDT

re: Stagger Lee

I had to sleep outside of a hostel in Lille, France in 1990, because it was locked up for the night by the time I walked there from the train station. They had their rules and spoke to me but wouldn't let me in. I was travelling on local trains through Germany back to Berlin and got close and then couldn't catch the last train after an earlier missed connection. I spent the night in and around the train station in Brandenburg or near there, going to drink in a bar until they closed, then around the station until trains for Berlin left in the morning. I also spent a night in the train station in Venice back in 1990 because the last train had left and I didn't have money for a hostel, being on a Eurail Pass and having only a few bucks a day for food.

3 years ago 07/05/2020 8:16pm EDT

re: hmmmmmmmm

OP’s story sounds like a George Thorogood song.

3 years ago 07/06/2020 3:47am EDT

re: shrub

My gf threw me out and as I didn't have my stuff and I was pissed off I walked 100 k home.

I decided not to sleep out just walk the whole night. Also had no food. It took around 24 hrs

3 years ago 07/06/2020 4:41am EDT

re: hmmmmmmmm

If you were in Gaza you would have been shot dead by a Gestapo Soldaten with the US Occupation

3 years ago 07/06/2020 4:57am EDT

re: Lucky You

OP is long gone but among the mistakes were:

) doesn't know how easy most door locks are to pick

) failing that, nearly all will yield to a crowbar

) or you can just kick them in, then replace the damage later

) if there's a store selling a sweatshirt, it probably sells a blanket, get that instead.

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2 years ago 10/01/2021 12:47pm EDT

re: hmmmmmmmm

I was working a farmers market and our youngest employee who was in college would routinely sleep on the park bench at the sit so he wouldn't be late in the early morning.

2 years ago 10/01/2021 12:57pm EDT

re: it happens

Dozens of times I have been too cheap to pay for a hotel room so slept in my car at rest stop or gas station parking lot or grocery store parking lot. Almost the same.

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