this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2026
49 points (93.0% liked)
Asklemmy
55939 readers
372 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy š
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Thatās so cool!! If I found a key, Iād be unable to stop wondering what happened to someone in that area that left their key lying there all aloneš¤§ Of the keys you remember finding, was there one that turned up somewhere particularly strange or unusual? Do you have any favourites :DDD I collect keys too, but I just buy old ones that I like the design or purpose of. Your way of collecting them sounds way more funšø
The vast majority Iāve found just lying by the curb, usually in downtown areas. Iāve also found few during a few different jobs.
One that I can remember I found on top of a branch of a tree by the sidewalk. It was an unusually long key that I noticed when I stumbled into the tree on my way home drunk from a college party.
I used to worry a lot about them and the people looking for them, but Iāve tried to report them in the past but the owner never turned up. People worry about losing keys, but the reality is theres way too many locks to ever know what it goes to.
A key on the tree branch is so mysterious. It would make me wonder if Iād stumbled across some kind of SCP creature, or if I was just way more drunk than I thought I wasš¤§ Maybe Mr. Crow had found himself a shiny new piece of home decor so it was there :3 just like a star on the top of the Christmas treeee And yeah, thatās so true. When I was little, my family told me theyād lost a key, Iād get so anxious about some stranger suddenly breaking into our home. But then again, who really knows which lock a lost key belongs to :)
My assumption was that some other drunk person found it on the ground and thought it would be easier for the owner to find if they came back because the branch was a bit below eye level. I definitely thought it was an odd place to find a key, but I wasnāt too worried. At that point I had found maybe 20 keys that year. Drunk college kids lose them a lot.
That makes a lot of sense! Hanging it somewhere so visible is actually a pretty good idea. I guess Iāll have to keep an eye on my keys too, even though I donāt drink much. If I ever lose my keys, Iāll come ask you if youāve found them ;3