One very good reason to carry the physical key with you.

huh, that's not happened to me in 10 years.

 

well, even though i've never removed the key from the fob, that's certainly no reason to take the metal key out of the fob and leave it home, is it?

 

what????? now i have to go look.

 

i got two identical with a key in each. did you buy used? i never knew they made a keyless fob.

 

interesting. maybe a chinese knock off.

 

well done.

 

In a tangent story, I locked myself out of the house the other night and slept in the Prius.

I hadn't transferred the house key to the Prius key chain, and as I left the house I used a remote transmitter to close the garage door. Well, I left the air compressor turned on, and it tripped the circuit breaker the door opener is connected to.

It took me 45 minutes in a downpour to snag the garage door release lever using a coat hanger.

That reminds me, the key I was given with the car doesn't work. The SKS was from a different car, so it has a different physical key. I'm still waiting for my mini VCI cable to arrive so I can program back the original fobs with working keys.

 

i keep a house key hidden under the door mat.

 

I keep a second story window unlocked, but the wife must have locked it. Getting up there without ripping the gutter off was difficult, and jumping off the roof even harder.

 

you did say you were a risk taker...

 

I gave my neighbor a spare key, easier knocking on thier door than scaling my house like Spider-Man. Lol.

If thier not home guess I'm sol, unless I can get to my parents who have an extra key...

 

One of my friends once scaled balconies on the outside of his building to get to his 11th-floor apartment, where he knew his balcony door was open. Apparently that was the easier option rather than going to see his roommate at work to borrow his key, a 15-minute walk away.

He is a very special individual. (The same guy also returned to playing Ultimate Frisbee the day after having knee surgery, which he required on both knees by his early 20s likely because he played so much Ultimate.)

But I digress.

Just to justify my random storytime, I'll chime in that my car also came with 2 identical fobs, both with metal keys. An interesting tip, however.

 

With my current PiP and also the 4 former Prii we owned since 2005, all of them came with 2 fobs with metal keys as part of it.

 

You'd think one of the other doors or the hatchback would have opened.