Locked out of my car twice. Once had youngest daughter still in a stroller and I removed her and put her in her car seat then folded the stroller and put it in the trunk. The car was not locked but my keys were locked in the trunk. Once locked out of my house and a friend crawled through a window to unlock the door.

The first day I owned this house I locked myself out. I was brand new to the city. Hadn't met the neighbors. Fortunately, there was a small - and i mean small - dog door, partially blocked by a washing machine inside. I was able to squirm myself in through it and push the washer just enough to get into the house. Later found that a neighbor two doors down had a key.

There are now two keys outside my house, two neighbors have keys, and two door locks are keyless entry. Problem solved. I preach to everyone to have an extra key made and hidden outside.

And I enlarged the dog door.

When I am super stressed, there is a good chance I will lock myself out of the car and will always have AAA for that reason. My husband used to carry a spare key in his pocket too so if he was able, he could come to my rescue. Never been locked out of the house though.

Never locked out, but I’ve been locked in when a key broke off in the lock. After two hours trying to get the stub of the key out with various tools I swallowed my pride and phoned DH at work. He had to squeeze in through a narrow basement window. Luckily he’s fit and slim. Once inside he had to use brute force and a power drill to get the broken key out. Needless to say we needed a new lock after that. So...... if you find an old key lying around the house and ask yourself if it fits the front door, don’t be tempted to try. It might go in the keyhole but will it ever come out?

My favorite story: I was working down in Charlotte for a few years and would rent from Budget every week. One day I locked myself out of the car so I called them and they told me to come down and they’d give me a key that would open the door. Great, so I got another contractor to drive me back to the airport. We pulled up to the rental office in his Budget rental, a top-down Mustang convertible, and I went inside. I told the clerk I had locked myself out of my car and was there for a door key.

He pointed outside to the Mustang. With the top down. With a driver. “That car?”

Locked myself out of my car once and my house once.

The car incident happened when DD was just a few weeks old. There was a sale on at a well known furniture store where it would be best to be there when the doors opened. DH was working but hoped to be able to get a half hour off and join me at the store.

I parked the car, with baby DD sleeping in her car carrier in the back seat, popped my keys into my handbag which I then placed on the front passenger seat to collect after I had walked around to the other side of the car and got DD out, exited the car, and automatically locked my door. It was a two door car and the other door was locked as well. This was pre-cellphone days, and I had no way to contact DH as there were no public phones anywhere to be seen. I just had to hope that DH, who had his own car key, would be able to get that half hour off.

In my head I was climbing the walls and panicking quietly. Luckily DD slept through the whole thing. "Helpful" bystanders asked if I knew my baby was still in the car. It was all I could do not to bite their heads off.

Fortunately, DH did arrive and unlocked the car. Whew!

The house incident was when I was being taken to the airport, along with a friend, by the friend's husband. Friend and I were going to a choral conference. I took my suitcase out to the car, locking the door behind me. Too late, I realised I had left my handbag, with my wallet, keys and airline paperwork in the house.

Luckily we had purchased friend's husband's childhood home, and he had experience in getting in through the window. :-)

I've been locked out of my truck and locked myself out of my friend's house when I was house sitting for her.

I used to go to the animal shelter to pick up wildlife. They had an old golden retriever there for months. He seemed so depressed. I asked if I could have him, and they said yes.

He was so happy when I put a leash on him and brought him out. I put him in on the passenger side of my truck, tossed my keys on the seat and walked around to the driver's side. He jumped over to that side, hit the door lock and locked himself in and me out. I had to call a locksmith. I think it cost me $100.

I was visiting my aunt at her country house 300 miles from my home. She wanted to look over my new car and managed somehow to lock the door when she shut it. Of course my purse with my keys were inside the car. I had the roadside assistance insurance still in effect, so the local dealer called the insurance people and they sent someone from the nearest large town -- 60 miles away -- to unlock the door.

After babysitting the grands, aged 6 and 8, overnight at my house, I returned them home. Their parents were not back from their trip yet and the house was locked. The kids went around testing all the windows, found one unlocked, opened it, crawled through and unlocked the door. I have the feeling they had used that window before!

Years ago I locked myself out of my car while at a farmers market. Was loaded down with bags and bags of fresh veggies. Got to a pay phone, called my neighbor who had a key to our house and had him go in and get the spare car key. He brought me the key on his way to work an hour later. About a week later, my husband locked himself out of his truck at a car wash. That same neighbor rescued him. Then a few days later, I did it again in the parking lot at the mall. Called good neighbor again. When he delivered the key to me, he just drove by me , tossed the key out the window and yelled, "you folks would never get home if it weren't for me"! He was laughing all the way!

I have done both. When it happened with the car I had to find someone with a cell phone so I could call Onstar. With older vehicles we had a spare key wired underneath. I was expecting company one time and had come home with groceries, including ice cream . When I put the key in the lock, it just kept turning, it didn't unlock. I went to a friends house and he came over with his drill and proceeded to drill the lock, well, he drilled and drilled, the sweat was running down his face ! It was high eighties that day. He finally got through and found that my husband had done something to the lock that prevented it from being drilled easily. I have a spare key for both front and back doors hidden and also have a spare key secured with a safety pin in my purse in case I forget to grab the house keys on the way out. It's funny how as soon as you shut the door and hear that 'click', you remember .....you forgot the keys! Lol

So many times!

I had to sleep overnight at the hotel I worked at until the dealership where I bought my car opened, and they made me a key.

Keys were shipped halfway across the country, and back, after falling silently into in a bag of packing peanuts I dropped off at the pack-n-ship.

Fell out of my purse at a store, probably got kicked under a store display, turned up weeks later.

Fell out of my pocket into 6” of fluffy snow.

Kitchen door slammed shut behind me, with DS18months in the house.

Dropped my keys in the car, more than once.

My new mantra when I get out of the car: “keys. phone.”

Twice out of my house. First time I just got out of the shower. I only had a robe and slippers on and it was the middle of winter. I noticed the fire needed some more logs so I went to the back porch to grab some. The dog jumped on the door and it locked. My neighbor was out of town and it was freezing cold. I picked up a log and busted out the window in the door to get in. Second time my hubby stopped to have lunch with our 3 year old son and I. After lunch we walked him to his car and he drove off not knowing out of force of habit he locked the door. The front window was open but too high for me , so I lifted my son to the window and he crawled in onto the couch, went to the back door and got the keys off the hook and unlocked the back door. I was so glad that he loved keys and knew what each one was for and how to use them. Thank goodness they invented keyless entry shortly after that. Love it.

Not me but a relative disrobed in preparation for a shower and then went out to the garage for something, had the door leading back into the house from inside the garage lock behind them. Luckily they happened to have a whole rack full of clothes in the garage, were able to dress, open the main garage door and go get assistance from a neighbor. Otherwise they would have had pretty much no way to cover themselves or telephone for help from inside the garage.

I didn't actually lock myself out of the house but when I went out the door to walk the dog a snake was coming right at me so I slammed it in the door. Now I could not go in the door and my back door was locked, my phone was in the house and I didn't want to wake up my son since he goes to bed early because of his job. Long story short my neighbors had to come do something about it and I got in. Now I never leave the house for even a second without my keys!

Only once, sort of, in my old Horizon. This was pre cell phones. At work I tossed my bag on the seat and automatically locked the door because I had something I had to get from my desk. I realized immediately that the keys were in the bag. Called my husband to bring the second set. During the time I was waiting it dawned on me to try the other doors. The front ones were all locked but luckily the hatchback opened. I was able to crawl in and retrieve the keys. Having no way to call my husband and not wanting him to find the car gone I waited. When he got there I used that set of keys to enter the car. One of the various things he did not need to know about.

I was locked out of the house by my husband once. I always left the front door open so I would not loose the keys when I was out mucking in the dirt. That day he discovered the door unlocked and locked it. It was also the day I discovered a yellow jacket nest in the ground. They followed me to the house stinging as they went. I was partially able to shield myself from them by squeezing between the screen and regular doors. He finally had it dawn on his brain that I was banging on the door but he waited until the segment he was watching on tv was over. He never did that again. I was lucky that other than itching for a couple of days I had no after affects.

I've locked myself out of a house a few times and locked my keys in the car a few times, including at the gas station. Thank goodness for AAA.

The time that still stands out in memory, I was just a teen. I was babysitting one evening for a family who had just taken in a rescue adult boxer. The dog didn't know me at all, nor me her, and she wanted out. I put a leash on her, stepped outside, door locked behind me with three small children sleeping inside.

The homeowners parents lived next door and I had to go to their house, wake them, have them let me in with their key. I'm still convinced they didn't find me responsible enough to be caring for their grandsons.

I had a storm not house door lock behind me (former house) when doing some outside things one day. That door was never locked, it was some kind of malfunction with the latch. I had to get a retired woodworking neighbor to fiddle with the lock with some of his tools to get back inside.

I locked my purse in the back of my SUV putting groceries in one day - an hour from home. Keys were in purse. The store had a couple of locksmiths they recommended and called one of them for me.

I don't think I've ever let myself into this house with a key. And I paid to have all locks changed to same one key (6 doors) when we bought it. I have the attached garage door opener in my car, and there is a keypad outside at DH's half where I can raise the door with his code if I happened to be on foot.

I cannot lock myself out of my house in Los Angeles because the front door has a deadbolt lock only, and this must be locked with a key every time I leave the house. In the house in Cathedral City, we have a digital lock on the front door, and so all I have to do is enter the security code to unlock it.

I've never locked myself out of a car.

For the last 20 years I have had Fords with a keypad on the driver's door to unlock the doors. We have a key for the house hidden in our unlocked barn in case someone is locked out.

When I first bought this house, I locked myself out several times and each time had to climb in through the window. It finally got old enough that I hid a key outside and have had to use it every once in awhile. As I got to know my neighbors, we all traded keys and have had to use them now and then.

No. I try to follow practices that make doing so less possible. Like, I always lock doors with the key in my hand, I never lock a door in advance and then close it. I got the idea from my mother when a teenager starting to drive. Thanks Mom!

My mother thought she would do me a favor and press the "lock all doors" button and shut the door as I helped her out of my car. So the car was running and the keys were in the ignition. Hello, tow truck driver who broke in for me.

I went for a walk at 6:30 a.m. one winter morning and had house keys in my hand. I tripped and fell and keys went flying. After scratching around in the snow looking for keys in the dark (and hoping to not look conspicuous to other walkers) I noticed a glimmer and became thankful that my uncle had recently given me a reflective key fob. I'm much more careful with keys now!

Last spring, I was driving around a small town where we thought we might want to live. I was just getting to know the area. I pulled into the municipal complex parking lot, to use my phone for looking up houses and such. I decided that my phone wasn't working very well, so I would take my tablet into the local library and use their Wi-Fi. I hopped out and went in, and didn't realize until I came back out that I locked my keys in the car.

The police station was just across the parking lot, so I went in to see if I could summon help. There was no one at the entry desk but the mailman walked through. He said if no one answered the bell I should pick up the black phone on the wall. Much to my dismay, this connected me to 911. But they dispatched an officer and he opened my car with one of those inflatable things they use to pry the door open. He was very nice and it was very quick.

We didn't end up moving to that small town but we are nearby.

Don't count on your fob as 100% infallible. I recently got out of my car to talk to someone and left my purse with fob in it in the car. I closed the door and it somehow locked. My husband had to bring my spare key to unlock the car. I have no clue how it happened, but will never leave my fob in the car without me again!

But to answer the original question, I sure have locked myself out of the house and car (many years ago by accidentally locking key in). We hide a spare house key outside and it has come in handy on occasion.

I locked myself out of the car once when I was with my small daughters. They must have been more upset than I realized at the time. They always asked if I had my keys. I guess that is why I always double check that I have the car keys in my bag before locking the car doors. But a better story is when I was locked out of the house while in the bathroom. My brother and I were in our late teens. He was sleeping, and my parents were at work. I could not open the bathroom door to exit. My shouting and banging wakened him eventually. His attempts to open the door from his side failed. He called a cousin also in his late teens who drove over. Not sure what we expected him to do as he was clueless as we were, but he was always our partner in crime and need. Luckily there was a small double hung window above the tub that I climbed to and fit through, but that side of the house was on a steepish grade and the window high off the ground. My cousin held the ladder; my brother climbed halfway up the ladder to encourage me as I climbed through the window and somehow figured out how to step safely on the ladder and down.

About a month ago I was carrying things into the house and discovered after doing some things including leaving the fob in the bedroom that the car had locked itself. In reading the manual I found out that if the fob was not in the vicinity of the car after a period of time it was programed to lock. When I purchased this car I was told it would happen but this was the first time.

Thought I already answered this but it's nowhere to be found

I locked myself out of my car and my dog was in there in the motor was running. I had to take a bus home to get my spare key as I had no money and did not belong to BCAA as I couldn't afford it. I paid for my bus for both trips on the way back. Luckily I had the calmest and sweetest dog in the world and she just fell asleep and waited for me. I was petrified the whole way there and back and so glad no one had tried to break in my car to steal it..

That's when I developed the habit of only locking my car with my keys never with the auto lock inside the car . It scared me so much.

We have locked ourselves out quite a few times and gotten into our house too easily! That's when we made sure that we had much better security and that we always had a spare key or three hidden somewhere. Now we have keyless entry and love it! We still have a key hidden somewhere and one with a relative who lives close just in case we don't notice that the battery needs changing.

When my youngest was about 4 years old, my husband called me from work and asked me to go to the liquor store to buy him a flat of beer (a flat is 24 cans of beer). So off we go and I grab the beer, get to the car and see my keys in the ignition. No way to get them out.... A man offered to hold my beer while I call my husband for the spare key I thought he had. I told the guy I wasn't born yesterday. I went to a phone booth and called him at work for help. He drove a tow truck and has a B&E kit. He pulls up and tries everything, but could not get the doors to unlock. He didn't have the spare key. So I said, "wouldn't it be faster if you just towed the car home?" You know, he has a tow truck.... why not? So he agrees it's a good idea, and I give him a quick kiss and I jump in the truck with out son. Well.... the looks on passerby's faces when they see me kiss the tow truck driver whom they didn't know was my husband. I'm sure people still talk about the trampy lady and the tow truck driver. hahahahaha!

never out of the house but at least 3 times out of cars one of our fobs doesnt work

Many times in a car, just last week to be exact. Call the tow truck and he was here in 10 minutes, thank goodness for towing insurance !

I have been locked out of my house a few times. When I was a teenager I locked myself and the kids I was babysitting out of the house and we had to go through a basement window to get in. The times I have been locked out of my house I just had to wait on the porch for someone to come home. I dropped my keys in my friends car the last time and by the time I got onto the porch she had driven away to go drive home to the county. Thankfully it was warm out and I could sit on the porch. Until my brother and cousin moved in the only one who had a key to my house was my younger brother. I don't have a cell phone so I can't call anyone for help. I could go to a neighbour's house but I usually just wait.

A couple times out of a car.

Son accidently (I hope it was not on purpose) locked me in our tall

chicken pen. He was on the lawn mower when I backed toward the pen to unload feed. He saw me and came to help. I was busily filling the feeders, and he left and locked the gate from the outside, got on the riding mower and away he went. My cell phone was in the car just outside the gate. I could see him, but he was not looking up from the mowing. I was beating on a tin pan, screaming, and waving my hands. Finally he looked up and drove over on the mower. He said "All that carrying on I thought you must have seen a snake!" I never enter that pen now with out feeling for my phone, and I put some wire cutters in there.

The worst incident...a rental car in Glendale, AZ in the summer, 100F +. I am driving. My mother and I go to a convenience store. I thought she was staying in the car, so I left the motor running for AC, locked the door, and shut it. At the same time, she got out, locked and shut her door. Car running, locked out. Rental company had to drive to us from the airport. How embarrassing! Laughed about that for years!

I never locked myself out of my car but once the back door blew shut and locked and I had to rip a screen and crawl thru the powder room window. I forget how many cats I had at that time but they were all there in the powder room staring at this crazy woman.

I have a fob now which supposedly prevents a lock out. I think it works because I once put something in the trunk before unlocking the car and when I tried to close the trunk it refused to stay closed. I tried several times and was so annoyed until I figured out I'd put my keys down in the trunk and it wouldn't let me lock it. On my cars with no fob, I trained myself to do exactly what Elmer does, I never push the lock button but always lock it with the key.

I'm sure I've locked myself out of the house, but don't recall any particular story. I know that I am adamant about hiding keys outside and have used them several times. Once I let myself in with a hidden key and promptly locked it in the house again. Luckily, hidden key #2 came to my rescue. Now, if I use the hidden key, I put it back before I go into the house.

I've remembered a funny story about someone else who locked their keys in the car, and I helped them get back in.

I live in a small country town, the kind where everyone knows everyone. I had just come out of the showgrounds hall, having dropped off my entries in the town's annual show (think "county fair"). Heading for my car, I saw a cluster of ladies I knew crowded around a car, shouting at it.

Investigating, I realised that they had left the keys in the ignition, and the 3 year old in the car had locked the doors. They were trying to get the toddler to get the keys out of the ignition and press the fob to unlock the car.

Now, this was a Toyota, and they used to have an ignition lock to stop the key being removed by mistake, so you had to do this weird press and turn (not unlike a childproof bottle cap) to get the key out.

I felt this was beyond the understanding and manual dexterity of the average 3 year old, and asked, "Why don't you just ask him to wind down the window?"

There was a stunned silence. Then one of the ladies said, "Oh my God, Colleen, we can tell you're a policeman's wife! That's brilliant!" I thought it was the obvious solution.

I have locked myself out of my house and my car more than once. One time I dropped my purse in the trunk as I was loading groceries. Remembered that my keys were in the purse as soon as the trunk was closed. I had my phone in my pocket and called AAA. The first thing they asked was if I was safe. I told them I was safe, but had shrimp in the trunk and it was petty hot out.