Monday, August 22, 2016

Keys

In my pant pockets I have two key rings.  There must be more than twenty keys on the pair.  Other than the key to my house and one to my ace number one daughters house, I don’t have a clue what they go to. 

I guess over several years, I have just added keys and never got rid of them when they no longer fit anything I had need to unlock.  And, now I have suddenly discovered I am carrying around a bunch of keys that annoy me.

It is worth mentioning that I also have another key ring that I keep in a safe location that I only know what one key fits.  Obviously I will never find out what all the keys fit, but I have a fear that someday I will be presented with a lock that I should have a key for and will have disposed of it.

I think I inherited this problem.  My uncle ‘J” kept a key ring with literally a hundred or more keys.  He kept it in his pickup glove compartment.  The difference is, he knew what each key went to.  ‘J’ had a key to almost every lock in three counties that had locked gates to prevent people from fishing or hunting on their property.  Yes, the owners gave him a key.

Maybe I only inherited the part of keeping keys, not remembering where they go.

PMO
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