About 11 or 12 years ago I had to work on a Saturday.  If we worked on weekends, we could park for free in the parking garage below our buiding.  You just had to go inside to get the card that opened the garage door from the security guard. 

You couldn't open the garage door witnout getting out of your car, because the place where you put the card was on the wall next to the door.  So I got out of my car, left the motor running, and without thinking, hit the lock out of force of habit.  I remembered just as I swung the door shut.  And then it was too late.

To make a long story short, it took about an hour and a half and a $20 tip to a maintenance man from the building to get the damn thing unlocked.  And I felt like a complete idiot every time one of my coworkers showed up.  Since then I've always carried an extra car key in my wallet.

I have locked my keys in my car countless times over the years and have always been to get them somehow,normally with a coat hanger or piece of wire.

That's why I keep my AAA membership going.  Used it lots of times.  The last time was when we were tailgating before a Chiefs game.  I was putting everything away and shut the doors to my SUV with the keys in the ignition.  So I waited in the parking lot for the tow truck driver to get my keys out, while the others were watching the game.

Happened to me a few times.  I guess the worse was at work one time about 5 years ago.  I was "lucky" enough, if you call it that, to be trusted with a building key to open and close up.  Me and another co-workers were staying for a little OT finishing up a job.  When we were done he took as I was closing the building up.  I jumped in my car tossed my cell phone in the passenger seat and put the keys in the ignition.  Keep in mind I've just come off a 12 hour day in some exhausting heat.  Then I realized I had forgotten to clock out.  So I get out of the car, not thinking, and by habit lock the car and shut the door.  I get up to the building and realize I don't have the key to get in.  It's on my key ring in the ignition of the, now, locked car.  Plus I can't call anyone because my cell phone is in there too.  At least I hadn't started the car.  But I can't say it was a totally lost because the was a fire station about three lots over and they were nice enough to let me use their phone to call my wife with the extra key.  Hasn't happened since then. 

Hey TimmJ,  have you ever locked yourself inside the car?? 

One time was all it took.  Now I have a key hidden in a nondisclosed location on my truck.  Have never used it.  I think knowing that it's there keeps the karma good.

I used to do it all the time.  I drove a 1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo - the one with the long doors.  I got real good with a coat hanger undoing the locks in college.   

Speaking of college, when I was there I took calculus, botany, some hubcaps, a few stereo systems, and accounting.  I knew the hanger would come in handy.