Drove to Denver for my brother's wedding. Got to the hotel, got all my luggage to the room, two hours later I can not find my keys.

All my keys are gone! I FREAK out! Did I drop them on my way to the room? Did someone pick them up then steal my Jeep? (It is Denver after all) I walk back to the Jeep, it's still there. Locked. So perhaps someone was cool and turned them in to the front desk. Nope, no suck luck. They are gone. Totally put a dampener on my weekend. I had my work keys, house keys and all the keys to my Jeep.

So then my brain starts freaking out... what if the person who found my keys is waiting until dark to steal my Jeep? They could possibly rifle through my glove box and find out where I live. Fortuantely my wife had her set, so at least we could still drive it. So I remove everything of value from all the storage bins and stuff, then drive to the local auto parts store to pick up a CLUB lock. They would still be able to open the Jeep, start her up, but hopefully not drive off without cutting the steering wheel. It's some protection I guess, but I'm still freaking out.

I question all the housekeeping people to see if they found them, I tear my hotel room apart, my wife tears it apart again looking.

No keys!

Luckily, no one opened or did anything to my Jeep the entire weekend... but that actually made me even more angry... did someone find my keys and just take them? Why would they not return them or turn them in to the front desk? Did some little kids find them? So as we're packing up Sunday night my wife lifts up the lid to the little hotel ice container and guess what????

MY FRACKING KEYS WERE UNDER THE LID THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!

Turns out my wife used the ice container for her personal toiletries and unknowingly put the lid over my keys hiding them from view. (of course I asked her to check her side of the bathroom counter for the keys and she assured me a thousand times that she did and they weren't there.) It's hard to be upset at her because I was the one who set the keys on the counter. But talk about ruining your weekend!!! Replacement keys are kinda pricey too! So now I've got this $30 CLUB lock I didn't really need to buy and my sanity is just that much more lost, lol... but my wife feels super bad and everyone was surprised I wasn't angry with her...

I really wasn't angry with her... it was just one of those weird things that happened and she didn't do it on purpose.

 

That's frustrating.... Better than losing your keys down the toilet like I did a while back. Damn things hit the water as it was flushing and never even slowed down as they shot down the drain. While I was spared the fear of theft, I was not spared a fair amount of ridicule by the wife and some friends that she just had to tell.

 

That's it, my wife would be down the road! Just kidding, my wife would do something like that if she was mad @ me. I know the panic that you went though, been there before and it sucks. Now that you have both of them, you should get a spare made up just in case. Of course I need to do that too, but don't want to spend the extra money.

 

Burglers got all my keys last month. You are a lucky man. I beat my wife because she left the window open upstairs..... the pricks used a ladder to get in.... Errr just kidding about the wife beating.