I've got the secret
Apr. 12th, 2012 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaContinuing the theme[*] of pointless curiosity about other people's lives, today I would like to know what other people have on their keyrings. Do you have a "keyring", ie some sort of novelty object attached for the aesthetic wossnames? Do you have useful things which aren't keys? If your bunch o' keys is massively bulky, how do you carry it about?
My keys live in the front, right pocket of my trousers. At least, they usually do. Today I'm wearing a pair of rather elderly green cords, and there is a large hole in the pocket so my keys are very confusingly in my laptop bag.
To remain pocketable, the bunch of keys has to be reasonably small so it contains only the bare essentials: at present, it seems I consider these to be the four keys required to get into my flat, the key to my bike D-lock, a 4GB USB memory stick and a chunky bottle opener.
Yes, four keys to get into my flat. One for the door to the main building, one for the main lock on my front door. Plus two more keys for the two separate deadlocks on my front door. The flat's previous owners liked their door locks. (They really did - in order to open the back door there is one Yale lock, one mortice lock, one security chain and two bolts.)
The memory stick is of no particular function, it's just a useful sort of thing to have around. It's phsyically tiny, and was a Christmas present from ChrisC. Attaching it to my keys means I invariably have it with me.
The bottle opener is for crown cap bottles, and advertises Cantrell's Ginger Ale. (A cursory google to see if Cantrell's still exists turns up a suggestion that my bottle-opener is in fact cast iron. Wikipedia also tells me that Dr Thomas Cantrell claimed to have invented ginger ale.) I picked up the bottle-opener when we were clearing my great-aunt's house out in Sheffield seven or eight years ago. It lives on my keys for much the same reasons as a memory stick; it's always there, and you never know when you might want one.
What've you got on yours?
[*] You are almost all wrong about mayonnaise, y'know.
My keys live in the front, right pocket of my trousers. At least, they usually do. Today I'm wearing a pair of rather elderly green cords, and there is a large hole in the pocket so my keys are very confusingly in my laptop bag.
To remain pocketable, the bunch of keys has to be reasonably small so it contains only the bare essentials: at present, it seems I consider these to be the four keys required to get into my flat, the key to my bike D-lock, a 4GB USB memory stick and a chunky bottle opener.
Yes, four keys to get into my flat. One for the door to the main building, one for the main lock on my front door. Plus two more keys for the two separate deadlocks on my front door. The flat's previous owners liked their door locks. (They really did - in order to open the back door there is one Yale lock, one mortice lock, one security chain and two bolts.)
The memory stick is of no particular function, it's just a useful sort of thing to have around. It's phsyically tiny, and was a Christmas present from ChrisC. Attaching it to my keys means I invariably have it with me.
The bottle opener is for crown cap bottles, and advertises Cantrell's Ginger Ale. (A cursory google to see if Cantrell's still exists turns up a suggestion that my bottle-opener is in fact cast iron. Wikipedia also tells me that Dr Thomas Cantrell claimed to have invented ginger ale.) I picked up the bottle-opener when we were clearing my great-aunt's house out in Sheffield seven or eight years ago. It lives on my keys for much the same reasons as a memory stick; it's always there, and you never know when you might want one.
What've you got on yours?
[*] You are almost all wrong about mayonnaise, y'know.
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Date: 2012-04-12 01:40 pm (UTC)* front door key
* back door key
* shed key
* gate key
* work i-button key
* magic contactless 'key' for another department
* bike key
* Mum & Dad's house key
* Swiss Army knife (so that's my bottle-opener, screwdrivers, scissors, knife, & tweezers)
* tiny pen
* nail clippers
* blood-donor keyring with my blood type on it (AB+, since you ask)
* Nectar Card mini-card
* Tesco Clubcard mini-card
* Library card mini-card
* One of those pound-coin-shaped things for swimming pool lockers, trolleys, etc
(I thought I had a USB drive on there, but I don't. Hmm. I probably took it off to use it & forgot to put it back on.)
The advantage of this mammoth bundle is that it's nearly impossible to lose/drop it without noticing immediately. The disadvantage is that it spoils the "line" of my trousers (like I care) & occasionally wears holes in poor-quality pockets. :-}
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Date: 2012-04-12 02:12 pm (UTC)I can see mammothity makes keys less losable, but doesn't it jab you in the leg every time you sit down? Even with my (relatively) bijou bundle I occasionally sit down, then leap up with a yelp having taken a particularly pointy edge to the groin...
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Date: 2012-04-12 03:09 pm (UTC)