I would have to do this three times a week

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OmahaWarrior@reddit

Well, i didnt have that fancy house but i still would slide a window open to get in.

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No9No9No9No9@reddit

"... Are you SURE this house is yours?"

"YES, this window is broken on purpose for this very reason..."

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86n96@reddit

I had to break into the crawlspace and army crawl to the basement, and into the kitchen. It sucked.

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MoarFlavor@reddit

We used to do this, too. It was either this or the bathroom window, which was a pretty big drop directly into the tub. This is probably the real reason we have all these aches and pains.

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86n96@reddit

My drop was into the utility sink in the basement. Pretty sketchy

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Our upstairs bedroom windows opened horizontally with a hand crank. Mine never really worked right or closed all the way. I used to be able to spiderman my way up from the porch and into my bedroom window. But it took some contorting to get through it. No way my fat ass could do that now!

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

We had a wood shute my brother and I would shimmy through. It was fine if the fire wood was well collected, much more painful drop if we were low. Then puberty hit and it was only my brother shimmying.

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Kazoo113@reddit

Oh wow you’re all so fancy. I had to sit on the porch for 3 hours until my mom came home from work.

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eatyourface8335@reddit

I had to poop in a coffee can because I could no longer hold it while waiting hours outside. I learned a lot that day…

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Kazoo113@reddit

Omg lol. What did you do with the coffee can? I bet your parents learned a lot that day too.

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MoarFlavor@reddit

I’m dying.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

And make up games, like "how close to that crack can I kick this acorn? or "flip the leaf."

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username__0000@reddit

I saw one of those “what’s something kids probably don’t do anymore from when you were a kid” posts recently and answered “probably make up weird little games to pass time” lol

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ThePerfectSnare@reddit

I've tried to impose on my nephews the importance of being able to locate a reliable water finder (i.e. a stick shaped like a Y) out in the wilderness. This did not make cleaning up sticks in the yard any more fun for them. I can't believe they don't even like finding sticks!

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mike_b_nimble@reddit

Well, I mean, who wants a water finder? Now, swords and guns, on the other hand, that's what sticks are MADE for!

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

A good dowsing rod will save your life far more frequently than a sword or gun will!

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Mr_Pogi_In_Space@reddit

You use the sword and gun sticks to rob the dude with the dowsing rod

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

...and yet people find it unreasonable that folks stockpile tens of thousands of rounds of ammo for SHTF.

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sixfourtykilo@reddit

Video game jumping person in the backseat of a car as you pretend to jump over fences and avoid obstacles.

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username__0000@reddit

I played that one too, or the “pick a raindrop and hope it wins the race to the bottom of the window”

I really enjoy “don’t let the balloon hit the ground” and “balance the broom stick on your finger” too. lol

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Particular-Serve-894@reddit

“don’t let the balloon hit the ground”

tbf, I still play this one

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Aquatichive@reddit

Me too! It’s called “keepee upee”

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Esternaefil@reddit

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Pezhead82@reddit

I am trying to convince my husband that a kid SHOULD be bored. That five minutes of boredom until making up something to occupy the time is an important part of being brain development. Gen Alpha is cooked.

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spokomptonjdub@reddit

My kids certainly do but they're still at a pre-phone age, and go to a school that doesn't allow screens. I'm holding on to that as long as I can.

Being bored is fantastic for creativity and it's something you don't realize is being lost until it's all the way gone.

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toomanyusesforaname@reddit

I was trying to explain to my son how fedious my childhood could be at times, and he couldn't comprehend. We lived on a heavily wooded lot with trees my dad would periodically fell, so the back half was littered with rotting Virginia pine stumps. Most of these were being actively consumed by all sorts of xylophagous insects and grubs. I'd take a small hatchet, split one down the middle, pry it open and just marvel at the intricate tunnels. It was honestly pretty cool, but in retrospect it sounds like some real Huck Finn shit, and I'd much rather have been playing lazer tag.

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username__0000@reddit

I dunno. Sometimes when I’m hiking I’ll still flip a rock to see the bugs under it.

And then put it back because I feel bad for bothering them. lol

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Kazoo113@reddit

Haha yep! Instilled creativity.

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MortgageRegular2509@reddit

I was the 1992 Midwest Region Flip the Leaf Champion for the 12U division

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theHollowTarnished@reddit

LMAO "FLIP THE LEAF" that cracked me up 😆 🤣

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Joker-Smurf@reddit

The window on the balcony was unable to be latched closed. It was in fact broken for the entire time we lived there (and the particular hardware it uses is was no longer available to replace it.)

Simply climb up onto the balcony (it is easier if you stand on the garbage bin) and then you are in the house.

My parents sold that house 20 years ago, and I am 100% certain that the window still cannot be closed.

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Few-Buddy-1122@reddit

A victim of your own lack of creativity

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Kazoo113@reddit

Hahaahahaha, you don’t think I didn’t check every window and find every random pointy thing I could find to stick in the key hole to “pick the lock”?

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Few-Buddy-1122@reddit

I mean, you’re the one that said what you said.

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Steely-Dave@reddit

It’s where I practiced using an id to pop the lock. Skill I’ve tried to teach my children but…they don’t seem to care for some reason…

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denverblazer@reddit

"Real interesting, Dad." 🙄

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Few-Buddy-1122@reddit

My kids love learning all my little tricks. Or at least they are good at pretending they do

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ES_Legman@reddit

Imagine living in a house, that's rich people shit

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jotate@reddit

Yeah, the only old ass window that wasn't rusted shut was above the kitchen sink and didn't have a weight to old open. Once I scraped the shit out of my leg getting in there, I just gave up and waited.

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1lovelyA@reddit

I had to get my elderly neighbor to help push me through the milk door

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GeeAyeAreElle@reddit

Lol meanwhile that "elderly" neighbor was probably 40 😂

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1lovelyA@reddit

Oh no, she was in her 70s. Barely spoke any English but she was my favorite friend 🩷

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AetheriaInBeing@reddit

And here my mother just handed me a key in 3rd grade and was like "you know how a key works. If you forget your key, go nextdoor until I come home "

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butterednoodlelovers@reddit

I got the key in third grade too! And the responsibility of looking after my younger brother until work ended. And also the neighbour recombination as well.

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blacknbluefish@reddit

same with me, and in winter I had to wait it out in the freezing cold with the cat zipped into my parka

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No_Ordinary_3799@reddit

Yup! I was SOL until 4:45-5:30pm lol I sure grew out of that phase quick

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Assika126@reddit

Same, frequently dancing around in the cold trying to stay warm or worried about not being able to make it to a bathroom in time

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AppropriateAmoeba406@reddit

Once had to shit so bad I went in the back yard and used leaves for TP.

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Smolshy@reddit

Same. We had no openable/passable windows on the outside, so it was porch or the couch of a neighbor I barely knew.

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borkbork234@reddit

Yep. Pee in the yard and drink from the hose.

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Biguitarnerd@reddit

So I did eventually figure out how to open windows, and credit card Jimmy doors (as long as they aren’t deadbolted) but in the third grade I just straight up busted out a window and broke into my own house and thought my parents would understand… right up until the moment I saw my dads face.

I can still remember the look on his face as he’s trying really hard to not lose it and yell at me and ask why I did that. That pure frustration and really trying to find a reason not to spank me, which he eventually did because I had no good reason. I just busted out a window pane because I wanted to be inside.

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_ism_@reddit

i had to sit in the hall of our apartment building as we had no outside and my mom was so mad the other neighbors could see the neglect so she asked me to stop waiting in the hall next time and wait outside

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bargle0@reddit

Sitting on the front porch in the freezing rain, waiting for Dad to get home.

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Zenitram_J@reddit

Yep. Lived on the third floor, no climbing through windows for smee.

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D34N2@reddit

Keypad locks were legitimately one of the best inventions of the past few decades. I wouldn’t even care if we lost all computers and the internet, as long as we could keep our keypad door locks.

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BrooklynRobot@reddit

I had to use the milkman door.

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VaryaKimon@reddit

Why wouldn't you just use that as an excuse to go to your friend's house until sunset?

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Person10836381910@reddit

Got in trouble several times because I was on the roof looking for an open window when my parent turned on our street. Tbf, it was a bit sketchy, had to shimmy up between the side of the garage and chimney, then cross the garage roof, hold onto the corner siding while stepping around the corner from one roof to the other, so yeah, didn't bother me as a kid, but I can see why a parent wouldn't like their kid doing it.

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snarkerella@reddit

HA! If this was the 80s (where I wasn't even a teen yet), we'd have to just sit out on the porch till someone came home. If that took too long, we'd wander around the neighborhood and make new friends who would invite us in for snacks. Yes, it's true. Boomer parents were different breed when it came to kids.

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gimlet_prize@reddit

There were a couple of 12-13 year olds wandering around the neighborhood yesterday and one of them called out, "Ma'am, do you have anything we could drink?" and I gladly got them a couple of ice cold Pepsi's out of the fridge. One each and one for the road. Good luck, boys!

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Apprehensive_Love140@reddit

I used to very gently push on the basement window until the latch bent far enough for me to open it. Then once inside I would bend it back so it would lock again.

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SnooPandas8979@reddit

What, no hidden key in the rock that definitely looks like a real rock and not something you would hide a key in? And the key is covered in dirt from the cover that absolutely keeps out dirt and water so even after you clean it off it doesn't want to fit in the lock? Amateur.

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mix0logist@reddit

Ours was in a magnetic case under a shelf in the garage.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

I always wanted to make a novelty gag gift that would be a small plastic key-shaped box and in it you'd store a rock.

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KittenPurrs@reddit

My mom screwed a little metal hook into the inside of the birdfeeder and hung a spare key on it. I'm sure me and my sis standing on patio chairs to dig around in birdseed was not suspicious/attention-grabbing at all.

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nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit

ours was on top of the water heater or power box

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Occams_AK47@reddit

We used the outdoor outlet covers to hide ours.

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mike_b_nimble@reddit

I've got mine hidden in a disused phone junction box next to my power meter.

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Assika126@reddit

My parents wouldn’t do this. If you forgot your key you were well and truly screwed

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Euphoric_Egg_4198@reddit

No, my brother stole and lost it after losing his key then stealing and losing my key. He was not good at keeping keys.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Our back door lock was shit and I was able to open it with my blockbuster card.

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SteveEcks@reddit

We only got the fake rock after breaking the windows a couple times

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FunTXCPA@reddit

Idk, those fake rocks are still hard enough to break window....

/s

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Fine_Violinist5802@reddit

Sticky taped to the roof of the letterbox where noooobody will find it

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wmubronco03@reddit

Get outta my head!!!!

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Ayemann@reddit

we had a garage door code thingy.

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DeadHead2002@reddit

I had to crawl through the old coal chute onto an old storage tank...

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iheartbaconsalt@reddit

Oh no. I had to help my girlfriend get into her house once. She broke the window and had me crawl in to get the door. What she didn't mention is it was her grandma's house, and her 80 year old grandma was on the sofa sleeping right in front of me, totally naked and looking kinda dead in the Texas heat with no AC in August. I spun around as soon as I saw her and unlocked the front door and got the hell back outside ASAP. Her grandma did not wake up, so it was fine except for my eyes!

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1_4M_M3@reddit

She did not wake up?? You saw her naked corpse and "it was fine"??

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iheartbaconsalt@reddit

She did not wake up while I was climbing into the front window! She woke up moments later when the GF came in the house through the door haha.

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Hairbear2176@reddit

But you haven't forgot, have you? It's still there, seared into your eyelids for you to see every single time you close your eyes....

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aconsul73@reddit

Prunes.

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iheartbaconsalt@reddit

Yes. In 2008 my vision started to get worse, that that one thing I will never be able to burn out.

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ReinaShae@reddit

That's me in 2026 as well

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Erika_Blumenkraft@reddit

I had the cops show up once after I went up a ladder into my second floor bedroom window and I had to show them the pictures of me all over the place.

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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

I once went to my mom's house to get some clothes and other shit, but forgot my key at my buddy's house I was staying at well over an hour away.

She was away on a business trip and no one else had a key, so I wasn't about to go all the way back to retrieve the key.

As I was climbing in the window, the neighbor, who knows me well, saw me. I waved at her, she waved back; called the fucking cops, anyway.

Cut to: my buddy is driving up the street my mom's house is on and two cops on bikes are hauling ass down the middle of the road, madly ringing their little bells. He, my girlfriend in the backseat and I all laugh and say, "Who the fuck stops for that shit?"

Cut to: driving down the main throughfare in that part of town and my buddy says there's a cop following us. I reply that's not uncommon, as it is the major artery in this neck of the woods.

Two, three cop cars, he is getting concerned, I am still of the opinion that they're on the same road, not actually following us.

When it gets to five whole-ass cruisers immediately behind his car, they light him up and pull us over. He and I are cuffed face-down on the pavement, she's sitting on the curb getting hit on by one of the officers (prick).

After several calls to various people, I finally get in touch with a coworker of my mother's that verified where she was and was able to give a decent enough description of her son to the shithead kneeling on me to get us sent on our way.

My buddy still tells that story pretty much every time we hang out, particularly if we're with someone that hasn't heard it before and/or he wants to try to embarrass me.

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wiserTyou@reddit

A new neighbor called the cops on me who showed up when my legs were dangling out the window. I just yelled that I forgot my ke and they drove away. There wasn't a lot of crime in my area.

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juicinginparadise@reddit

Im big and brown. Had to stop using the window after the 2nd time the cops got called out.

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Josephthebear@reddit (OP)

I once had a guy that was working on a house down the street chase after me cuz he thought I was trying to break in

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Erika_Blumenkraft@reddit

That's a bit above the call of duty.

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Saucer_dog@reddit

Damn now I want that sweatshirt

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babyBear83@reddit

I had to do this with the window in the garage. Man it hurt climbing over the metal track for the screen..

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Coco_Cokie_Cookie@reddit

I jumped over the gate and climbed the roof

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dakapril77@reddit

I crawled through the dog door at least 5 times.

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gareththegeek@reddit

I once crawled through a dog flap, then reached a broom through a smaller catflap to knock a key off its hook to get in.

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Then_Increase7445@reddit

I climbed in my bedroom window so many times. My parents never gave me a key to the house.

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Jigsaw417@reddit

I need that fucking hoodie.

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Reportersteven@reddit

Second floor climb to the roof for me.

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SoftWhiplash-x6@reddit

Yeah, that screen door thing was rough, I forgot about that part.

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sfxer001@reddit

I once took a bic pen apart and used the pieces to pry open the window screen to climb into my house in 7th grade.

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Parents didn’t lock the door if I was out. I could come home at 3am and the door would be unlocked.

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Sanguine-Penguin711@reddit

My parents didn’t lock the doors period. We lived in the middle of nowhere, and we had nothing worth stealing.

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DiaDeLosMuebles@reddit

Luckily we had a doggy door.

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Sanguine-Penguin711@reddit

I’ve done that a few times as an adult. 😂

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ResponsibilityGold88@reddit

Same. And when I got too big to fit through the dog door, I could still reach up through it and unlock the door from the inside.

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ryanoq@reddit

Haha same

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HeatWhisper-@reddit

Three times a week? That's not a workout, that's a lifestyle at this point, I'm just trying to make friends with my couch.

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Rakins_420@reddit

Did this recently but made the mistake of putting the toddler in first. Watched him make a bee line for the bathroom bin Fastest I've ever climbed through a window in my life.

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UpstairsAtmosphere49@reddit

I’d squeeze through the doggie door and almost injure my boobs/shoulder to reach the lock

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ChalkDoxie@reddit

I did this and broke my window. 😆 kept my key on me after that.

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Possible-Ebb9889@reddit

I had to crawl over my neighbors patio into mine 4 stories up

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wollflour@reddit

Only part that's missing is where you'd have to pry off the screen and then try to bend it back into shape so you didn't get grounded.

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madogvelkor@reddit

I did that with my bedroom window a few times. I had it set so I could.

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Halloweenie23@reddit

I definitely spent a lot of time waiting around in my backyard

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

For those of us that were jamming to the vibes of music, and then disappointed when it cut off and wanted to relive the nostalgia this is for you

https://youtu.be/xat1GVnl8-k?si=9PJB_ytB5BZOKMjz

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ballen1002@reddit

Thank you! Now I have something to listen to while I’m tracking down that hoodie online.

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

https://vapor95.com/products/cool-s-hoodie-vapor95?srsltid=AfmBOopoWvII3hYzrbOz6lVoxjbfrhdecI_zdHn1332vwfcqI-R1pq-G

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ballen1002@reddit

Yes! I’ll be circling back around to this link during the weekend when I’ve had enough to drink that this seems like a wise purchase.

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

Ahh yes the drunken purchase

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GaspSpit@reddit

It made me cringe. Don’t get me wrong, I love the song. I just found it to be an odd choice, considering the context.

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Hopeful_Method5175@reddit

It’s pretty much the musical epitome of the 90s, though. If someone asks me what song best embodies the 90s, The Bad Touch is immediately what comes to mind. It’s a barrage of 90s pop culture references.

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

Fair assessment. However, that song has special nostalgia triggers, and to cut it off right before the chorus was uncouth

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GaspSpit@reddit

Agreed! I wanted to hear it anyway. Thanks for sharing the link!

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rangeghost@reddit

I had to get a ladder, take the exterior screen out of my bedroom window, bring it back to the ground, climb back up, try to lift my window from the outside, and hope I don't hurt myself squeezing head first and dropping onto my bed.

And then go back out to put the screen back into place.

I'm just glad none of my neighbors called the cops.

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maringue@reddit

What, you didn't have a key twist tied into a branch way the hell in the middle of a bush?

That's where I stashed a key.

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nipslippinjizzsippin@reddit

There was always an unlocked side or back door. You couldnt reach it without going through the squeaky gate and dealing with the dog., never once got broken intoi

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_AMOK_@reddit

Came home from school once the door was open and had a massive boot mark on it. Went to the neighbors and called mom. After the cops left we found out they stole a bunch of stuff. The most shocking was a frozen chicken was gone out of the freezer

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Evan_802Vines@reddit

Picking the lock on the Basement hatchway

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GlassAndStorm@reddit

Hahahah core memories dude 🤣🤣🤣

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StevieNickedMyself@reddit

I punched in the window screens a few times. Dad got so angry because they had tl be replaced.

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WhatsHerFaceRevisted@reddit

I'm poor and my house isn't smart so I still do this on occasion.

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Stanwich79@reddit

No 20ft ladder?

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SenoraRaton@reddit

I used to move the garbage cans around near my window and out of the garage so I could climb on them an through the window.

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Gloomy-Moose-4367@reddit

had to use dads putter put my arm in the small top window to hook the bedroom window because useless brother never put the spare key back in the fake rock.

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wookiemilitia@reddit

I just kicked in the garage side door, I was 11. Dad still gives me shit about it. I did however find out how flimsy American houses are built. Yeah, those two 3/4” screws holding the strike? Those are worth nothing.

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UhCheck_please@reddit

I mastered willing open the school crank windows.

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Taanistat@reddit

I had keys from the time I was like..eight.

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Johnniegeorgetown@reddit

I used to have to climb the fire escape on a house 5 doors down, pull myself on top of their roof, walk across the top of the houses in between, shimmy down to the sill under my bedroom window and push that up to get in. Often buzzed.

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PoodleIlluminati@reddit

I got my key in 3rd grade. Arrived home around 3:30. Friends started showing up at 3:32. We would bang out our homework as a group then shoot pool, play ping pong, have epic Monopoly games or terrorize the neighborhood with hide and seek.

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EBN_Drummer@reddit

We had a combination key lock box with our house key in it.

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IsItJake@reddit

Back in 2017 this was how me and my girlfriend snuck in and out the house at night lmao

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VioletVenable@reddit

The front door of my childhood home had a wonky knob and if you jiggled it in exactly the right way, it would unlock. My dad, brother, and I could do it, but my mom could never get the speed/rhythm right, and it annoyed her. She kept on at my dad to fix it — until her garden club meeting ran late one day and I was able to let myself in with no problem. Miss that.

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flyingcars@reddit

Definitely went through my parents’ kitchen window a few times. Even crazier though was sneaking in and out of my girlfriend’s bedroom window, during the days that you used to just show up at peoples houses and not even really call ahead, or if you did call ahead your eta might be totally wrong AND you could get stuck talking to their parents.

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boyalien0@reddit

I just went over to a friends house smoked weed and played Goldeneye

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Tiny-Reading5982@reddit

Omg I feel attacked lol. I had to crawl into my own house window about 6 years ago too..

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wiserTyou@reddit

I had to take the dogs out last year when my parents were out of town and it wasn't worth the 1hr round trip to get the key. It hurts a lot more in your 40s.

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TheRealDoomsong@reddit

I had a key, so…

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wiserTyou@reddit

Oh look at Mr. Myparentslovedme over here.

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mattisnerdy@reddit

We had a weak door and no dead bolt. Used my school ID to pick the lock.

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wiserTyou@reddit

I always kept those store discount cards for exam this reason. Most handle locks aren't installed properly.

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Sweet-Situation-8224@reddit

We had to climb the fence to get up onto the deck, even then there was no guarantee the sliding door would be unlocked.

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Senofilcon@reddit

I had to do this a few years ago, the window is almost 6' off the ground and i had nothing to stand on. It was very humbling flopping in behind the sofa like a sack of old potatoes.

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drpcowboy@reddit

Why the window? There was a key under the doormat

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EcstaticTraffic7@reddit

I had to also pop the screen off. Good times.

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Allaplgy@reddit

I had to climb up to my parents' tiny 2.5 story bathroom window that was 5 ft off both the interior floor, and the roof from which it was accessed, and birth myself through face first, hoping to catch myself before my face did. That was after having to inch along a 12' long, 8" wide shelf 18' in the air outside my bedroom window to access the roof.

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ambercrayon@reddit

I had a butterknife stashed outside for exactly this purpose

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OvrKill@reddit

Every time

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-Red-7-@reddit

I'd just go over to my friend's house and call my mom.

"Hey mom, I'm at Jason's house."

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gypsyjacks453@reddit

I once lost my house key in middle school and my friend and I lifted the window air conditioner out, climbed in, went back outside and put the unit back in the window perfectly.

Just kidding we did a shit job, my Dad was pissed and of course I lied about it, so he then called the cops to report a break in. When the cop came over I followed them around the house (staying close to the investigation as criminals do) and finally he told my Dad once I went in the house that it was probably me.

My Dad asked me where my house key was…and as I did not know…I was rightfully grounded for a month. I lost at least 4 house keys. Later in life I was diagnosed with ADHD. Go figure, haha

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GiveUpGodiva@reddit

I had to crawl through the dog door, ala Ferris Bueller

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iolmao@reddit

Going around with flip flops dressed like that would cost you a tooth and a broken rib in the 90s.

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Emannuelle-in-space@reddit

It was funny when kids would go on vacation with their families since the other kids all knew how to break in. Whenever my family was about to go on one, I’d have to hide all my video games and collectibles in a box in the attic. Later on, it was my dad who had to hide his liquor.

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BrainFartTheFirst@reddit

I had a key.

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SteakJones@reddit

I once broke into my house with a tack nail. My mom found the holes in the screen a decade later and got angry about it. Hahaha

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ericwbolin@reddit

I have done this probably 20 times as an adult in the home I own myself.

Had one of those handles that autolocks and too many times would I just pull the door shut behind me when taking out the trash or whatever. Finally wisened up and got a numeric keypad lock.

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ghoooooooooost@reddit

I was a latchkey kid with no key.

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S_A_R_K@reddit

I would take the sliding glass door off its track by leaning back against it with my palms pushed against it and standing up on my tippy toes

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wtfbananaboat@reddit

True story, I actually had terracotta roof tiles and would Pull them off and get in through the roof. Absolutely absurd but it worked.

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HoratioMegellan@reddit

In the 90s I was a latchkey kid so I had a house key since primary school. I made sure I always had it otherwise I would be stuck outside for a day a two at a time.

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bigfancydelta@reddit

Ive had to do this as an adult, haha! Gotta love walking out the door and 0.3 seconds after you close the door you realize you don't have your house keys...

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Thick-Condition-4059@reddit

Yes!! And as a fat kid this was hard ok 🥴🤣

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OkBackground8809@reddit

I got in trouble for getting a hammer and breaking through the back door🤣 In my defense, it was the middle of winter in Iowa and I really had to pee. Also, I was only in grade 1 or 2 and wearing a full snowsuit😅

Parents made sure to hide a spare outside after that.

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unclestink@reddit

Our garage door opener had a keypad but if the power was out you were screwed

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Assika126@reddit

I was so relieved when we got the garage keypad, my life was changed

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VisiblePlatform6704@reddit

We had a combination lock which my dad setup with his birthday. At the time we joked thar it was his way of making sure we didn't forget his birthday.

Now I understand him LOL.

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Flat-While2521@reddit

If you don’t know how to break into your own house, do you really live there?

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Assika126@reddit

My folks plugged all the gaps. Tried to convince the cat to move the locking bar out from the sliding glass porch door to no avail

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handsomeape95@reddit

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QueenInYellowLace@reddit

Exactly!

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joshhupp@reddit

When I was really young, I couldn't open up the big bedroom windows but we had a small window about 16x20 on the ground that would slide easily. The problem was it was behind the TV so you had to crawl through a bunch of wires and try not to unhook anything.

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simondrawer@reddit

In the 80s we all had keys from the age of 5 for when we walked back from school alone and had to wait for our parents to finish work.

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Wtf? Lol, lose your key that often? No hide-a-key? No garage door code? No back door key? Make a plan!

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LooksLikeAWookie@reddit

I learned so many ways to break into my own house. My favorite was lying flat on my back with my arm through the cat door and using a stick to undo both locks.

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flower_songs@reddit

This is so accurate 😭

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HeartAttackIncoming@reddit

In the 70s we had a key on a string around our necks.

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raerabbit27@reddit

We had our home broken into one time, so they wouldn’t let us kids have a key and we had to wait outside until our dad was off to let us in, usually like an hour or 90 mins. Luckily we eventually got a garage opener but still had to wait in the garage. The garage had the computer set up and I used to play the pinball game or spider solitaire since we didn’t have internet yet haha. Crazy times, my kid lives a very different life than me haha

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ArtsyRabb1t@reddit

I scared the crap out of my mom trying to get in a wi foe because I forgot my key

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

I always leave a window at my home unlocked.....just in case...

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Slartibartfast39@reddit

There was a point where my sister got home from school and an hour later I got home from college (UK college, not uni). One winters day she forgot her keys and waited for me in the cold. When I turned up she stood up grabbing the door handle and opened the door. Dad had forgot to lock it and she's sat freezing her ass off for an hour next to an open door.

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jncheese@reddit

Latchkey kids in the 80's

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Burqueisbest@reddit

Forgot to pop out that screen.

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Farewellandadieu@reddit

I’m one of the few Xennials whose parents were always home- SAHM, and dad worked early enough to get home before us kids.

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ymOx@reddit

Key on a string around my neck; this was never me.

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LazyZealot9428@reddit

We had a fake rock with a key inside it

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cellrdoor2@reddit

My parents gave us keys and told us not to forget them or we’d just have to sit there and think about how irresponsible we were. One day my mother came home for lunch and realized she had no keys and then proceeded to smash the back door lock into smithereens with a hammer from the garage that they then left next to the open door. When I got home I was terrified that some lunatic had broken into our house and was still there. They were mad that I called them at work from the neighbors to ask what I should do, good thing I didn’t call 911 first which is what I had thought about doing. But sure, us kids were the irresponsible ones…

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the_kid1234@reddit

Just used the key I obviously had?

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mmoonbelly@reddit

We used to have to climb in through an upstairs window.

Till dad got annoyed with broken tiles and put locks on the sash windows

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MrBroham@reddit

Had to break into my back door with a credit card many times.

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Nuker-79@reddit

I had to climb through the top opening window pane, good job I could fit through. Was a rough landing bouncing off the window sill and onto the floor though.

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Ace_Ranger@reddit

I get paid to break into houses occasionally. 99% of the time, I show up and find an open window rather than having to pick/drill the lock.

There have even been a couple of times when I found a lockbox on the property with the correct key inside it.

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The_Best_Yak_Ever@reddit

I had to go through a window, into a spare room, past the motion sensor that had a blind spot where the alarm pad was located, and turn the alarm off.

There were days where I misjudged the blind spot and ended up on the phone with the security company to reassure them that it was just me being an idiot, and not an actual burglar…

I don’t think I forgot again since maybe tenth grade, because we got a camera array outside before I graduated high school, and I don’t think they ever caught me playing Ethan Hunt…

What a time to be alive!

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straightblather@reddit

I was probably 13 when my greatest break-in happened. I got a ladder of of the shed, climbed to the roof outside my bedroom window, knocked out the screen and opened the window.

My mom was pretty mad about the screen.

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JonnyQuest1981@reddit

My brother and I would use a golf club to hit the break-in safety tab on the kitchen window so we could open it enough to climb through. You know, those little tabs you flick out so the window will only open 2”-3”? We defeated those with a nine iron in 1993.

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Swampy2007@reddit

My window was three times smaller . Bathroom prison cell fit through . Then had to fall down face first , arms stretched out onto the ground and do a tuck and roll landing , and hope my shoes didn’t get caught on the window seal .

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Sivim@reddit

I climbed onto our roof to get into the unlocked bathroom window before... This is accurate.

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jjmawaken@reddit

I used to break in through the front windows. Surprised no one called the cops on us :)

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edwardturnerlives@reddit

Uh, I have to break in thru the doggy door probably once a month. We dont have no new fangled bluetooth door handle shit.

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zenprime-morpheus@reddit

How nice. I lived in an apartment complex. Forgetting my keys meant I first checked out if my grandmother was at her apartment, and failing that (she was often out as well), find a way to get into the building and just chill out until my parents got home. Of course chilling out really meant doing any homework (generally in one of the laundry rooms) before they got home. Anything else would be a waste of time.

I think I forgot my keys thrice.

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Master-CylinderPants@reddit

Either climb up to the 2nd story and crawl in through a window or sit outside until 8 at night and get chewed out for being irresponsible.

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Tizzle_Boy_Get_Em@reddit

All this without the flip flops and my window of choice was in the front! Good thing all my neighbors new the family well!

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Ambitious_Nomad1@reddit

I once had to wait for 3 hours in an old car in the backyard during winter…my dad was getting drunk and my mom was working, that was life

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dhelene@reddit

This is exactly how I broke the coffee table.

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abmoonstar@reddit

I was forever forgetting my house key, but one day I realized that our garage door would unlock itself if you knew how to jiggle and turn the handle juuuust so. I had to break into my house a couple times a week, at least.

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bugwitch@reddit

OMFG I thought it was just me that did that.

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gyrlonfilm6@reddit

Ahh memories. I remember one time climbing up the trellis to the second floor of the house through my bedroom window which i left open cause i left my keys at home. It was also homecoming and had to get in the house to change to go to the parade i was in. Never told my parents. My mom would've had a conniption.

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justtapitin65@reddit

This made me laugh! The number of times my sister and I would forget our keys and then have to climb in through the kitchen window landing right in the sink!! My parents would purposely leave that window open for us.

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ReiperXHC@reddit

Mine was raised ranch so I had to balance precariously on wobbly garbage cans to get up there.

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el_n00bo_loco@reddit

The number of times I used my library card to unlatch my screen, so I could open a window is staggering.

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M_Me_Meteo@reddit

Also make sure you make eye contact with the neighbors so they know you're not breaking in.

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Less_Likely@reddit

I did this a few times.

My way in was the hopper windows in the basement. I tried the dining room window once, successfully, but I damaged the screen removing it.

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mist_kaefer@reddit

Garage door keypad. I now have a four-digit number ingrained into my memory.

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

I am extremely good at breaking into houses. I have never illegally broken into a house.

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al_rey503@reddit

My parents were big door lockers and many times I had to shimmy through the little bathroom window

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ThatDudeWithAS@reddit

I broke a glass panel one night doing this. I cleaned up and put the empty frame back up and went to sleep.

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Lethave@reddit

I lived on the 15th floor, this was not an option. Fortunately, the neighbors and my parents were friends, so I'd sit in Miss Ruby's dining room doing homework while she watched her VHS recording of All My Children from that day till my dad got home.

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lemonheadlock@reddit

I lived in an area where that wasn't an option. I'm surprised so many people were able to leave stuff unlocked.

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CaughtALiteSneez@reddit

Everyone in my family has undiagnosed ADHD coupled with paranoia so there were no unlocked windows or hidden keys.

We kept the area window replacement people in business.

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