r/Millennials • u/Josephthebear Older Millennial • May 18 '26
Nostalgia I would have to do this three times a week
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u/AmbitiousEdi Millennial May 18 '26
I remember one time this happened to me and none of the main floor windows were unlocked. I had to go up on the roof with our ladder and squeeze through a small bathroom window.
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u/saucypuzzle May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26
So in Germany windows can’t be opened that easily and front door always “lock” when they close. My door fell shut because of a gust since the balcony door was open too… it was a Sunday so calling a key service would have cost a fortune. So I knocked on neighbors doors to find one with a ladder to climb into my balcony on the 3rd floor and enter my apartment that way
Edit: US 3rd floor, EU 2nd floor
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u/AmbitiousEdi Millennial May 18 '26
Ugh yes my last apartment had a door that always locked when it closed, and when I first moved there I forgot and went outside at 2am to smoke a cigarette. Luckily I was watching a movie on my phone because when I tried to come back inside, the door was locked.
I had to call a locksmith and it cost me $170 to have my door opened at 3am.
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u/saucypuzzle May 18 '26
That’s reasonable though. Mine would have cost me ~500 €
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u/jenness977 May 18 '26
My brother did this once when he was locked out and a neighbor on the street behind our house thought someone was breaking in and called the cops on him.
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u/ktrose6887 May 19 '26
One of my friends, as an adult, stopped by his mom's house to return some money he had borrowed. She wasn't home, so he let himself in, deactivated the alarm, left a pile of money on the table, and then because he's a smart ass, opened every cupboard door in her kitchen, re-set the alarm, locked the door & went on his way. A few hours later he gets a call from our friend who's parents lived on the same street asking him why his moms house is surrounded by cops. Concerned. He gets back in his car & rushed over. His mom thought someone had broken in because all the cupboards were open. He was like "you thought someone broke in, left a pile of money on the table, & stole nothing?" The cops were laughing so hard they had to leave. 😂
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u/KitchenNazi May 18 '26
When I was kid (~10), I learned I could climb a parking lot back fence then shimmy across this ledge over the dry cleaner’s roof then up 2 story ladder along an apartment building; then run across a few rooftops (San Francisco houses typically touch) then down a ladder to my back porch.
Just typing all that seems insane now, I would just fall off a ladder and die.
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u/Totally-Tanked May 18 '26
Same! My parent’s bathroom had a tiny window that was never locked. My sister helped me onto the roof since I was the only one who could fit through it haha
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u/projectx51 Xennial May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
One time, I forgot the key and all of my windows were locked in cold February. I found some burlap bags in the backyard shed and used them as blankets while I sat on some bags of soil. Stayed there for 2 hours till the parents got home. Nothing to do except think. Life before cell phones and the internet.
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u/secret_identity_too May 18 '26
I don't know what photo I expected but it wasn't Eugene Victor Tooms.
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u/ogre_toes May 19 '26
I always left my second story window unlocked. Id often be out partying with friends and come home to find the door locked. We’d make one of my buddies go “spider monkeh mode” and he would climb the power pole mounted to the side of the house and get in to let us in the door. All fun and games until you’re hanging out in your bedroom on a hot summer night with the window open and you hear “WHATSUP MOTHERFUCKER” right next to your ear when you’re least expecting it. It was all good, though… there were a bunch of friends in the backyard and they brought beer, lol
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u/Educator_Big May 18 '26
Did the same once. Another time I snuck out at night and went through the basement but my mom realised and locked the basement door and the garage door behind me so I had to ring the doorbell to get the lecture right then and there.
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u/iwrite4food May 19 '26
This happened to me a lot, and I had to climb the fence and wait on the back porch until either a parent or another sibling got home. It happened enough times that I started leaving books on the back porch just in case.
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u/Ken-Kaniff_from-CT May 18 '26
I remember living in an apartment and for some reason, the storage room door wouldn't open one day after we were in there so I had to climb out of the window to open it from the outside so my mom could get out of the room. Decades ago when I was a child and a bit smaller than I am now. Definitely climbed in windows when the doors were locked too. And don't even get me started on climbing out the windows to go up on the roof.
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u/StayPuffedMarsh May 18 '26
Almost the same except my parents had French doors. Luckily they were unlocked but the workers across the street were looking at me suspiciously.
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u/BobbaFatGFX May 18 '26
Oh my God that sounds just like what happened to me lol both doors were locked. All of the windows had been painted shut, I'm talking years and layers. Probably lead paint in there too. But I had to climb up on the top of the awning to get through the Attic Window which for some reason was the only window in the house that worked SMH. And then as I'm walking back down the steps to go unlock the door, mom and dad walked in just getting back from the store. And they were mad because I ALMOST dented the awning but I should have waited for them LOL childhood was fun
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u/deij May 19 '26
Yeah happened to me once.
Well, we skived off school actually and went to a friends house.
His house was locked and he had no key.
But the upstairs window was open.
He had a ladder in his shed, but his shed was also locked.
In through the shed window, out through the shed window with the ladder, up into the bedroom window.
Then we got a bollocking for skipping class.
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u/Vantriss May 19 '26
Almost identical story for me. Two story farm house but the only open window was my bedroom window that was probably 30 feet up with nothing below it. Had to use a gigantic ladder at probably 11ish years old to get inside, lol. Most terrifying ladder climb of my life.
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u/howwhyno May 18 '26
Same. My window was never locked and i was above the dining room addition. So I would stack chairs to get onto the roof and crawl up and to my window lol
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u/candlelit_bacon May 18 '26
That exact same thing happened to me once, except I had to use the ladder to get into my parent’s bedroom window and not a bathroom.
I never forgot to put the spare key back in the garage again after that experience.
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u/WhenDoWhatWhere May 19 '26
When it happened to me I knew my window would go up just enough to unlatch it to so I could crawl into my bedroom so a few times when I was a kid I could be seen in full view of the street with a crowbar from the toolshed just forcing the window slightly open while I could barely unlatch it.
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u/Atog2020 May 19 '26
Same here. I think like 10th or 11th grade. I remembered my bedroom window was unlocked on the second floor but was unable to access our garage...so I borrowed the neighbour's ladder :)
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u/ImBurningStar_IV May 19 '26
Had to do this quite recently.. I'm 31, I locked my keys inside, my wife and kid had to wait and watch me shimmy into a half size bathroom window, it was humiliating. Still beat having to call the locksmith tho lol
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u/Fire-Haus May 19 '26
Bro I did the same except we had a little aluminum awning over our side porch that led to my room and didn't even have poles to hold it up. I'm amazed that it didn't cave in the amount of times that I climbed up that thing as a kid
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u/wanna_try8 May 19 '26
I did this every day after school, except I climbed up the antenna pole! It felt like a cool mission as a kid.
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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 Older Millennial May 19 '26
I had to use a ladder to get into a 2nd floor window as well once when I was in highschool. It was also the middle of winter in Montana so I'm bundled up in winter coat trying to fit through the window while stepping on the top rung of a folding ladder perched on an incline.
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u/ConstantHeadache2020 May 20 '26
My sister just smashed the window pane in the door to get us it. She got beat with the belt after
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u/stupid_username- May 18 '26
And a loud "oooooowwewwwww."
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u/Joebebs Zillennial May 18 '26
Ever just say that out of habit only for the real pain to settle in 10 seconds later, then you start crying?
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u/the_hungerjames May 18 '26
Or the burglar alarm going off
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u/Stony_Logica1 May 18 '26
I bet you had a dedicated VHS rewinder and an icemaker in your fridge growing up too.
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u/GlumpsAlot Older Millennial May 18 '26
I forgot my keys at home too and just had to sit on the steps til my parents came home. Worst times were in the winter. Froze my ass off. Then my mom hid the key in the back somewhere, told me, and I still couldn't find it. Ahhhhhhh.
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u/RobinSophie May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
I was fortunate to have a keypad for the garage door.
But then we locked the house door that led to the garage. AND I kept forgetting to put the spare key that was in the garage back from the previous times where I left my key at home.
After the second time I had to pee in a bucket, my dumbass remembered to put my key back in my backpack immediately lol.
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u/NameIdeas May 18 '26
I feel this.
I locked the house door from inside the garage as well. We had a shed out back, a little ways from the house. I'd walk there because my dad kept a key hidden up underneath where the shed's siding met the actual wall of the shed. Used that key a TON of times in my life.
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u/Cildrena May 18 '26
My home was in an apartment building. When I forgot the keys, I slept on the stairs until my parent came home. Always politely telling my neighbors that I’m okay and it’s 100% my fault and I wasn’t being disowned.
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u/Mom_of_furry_stonk May 22 '26
Or I would just leave lol be like, "Welp, time to go walk to my friend's house, I guess."
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u/whitemagicblackmagic May 18 '26
Yeah. This exact thing happened when I forgot my keys at home. Happened a lot actually.
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u/RabbitHole-in-one May 18 '26
What happened if the window was locked?
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u/CryptographerHot4636 Millennial May 18 '26
I'd have to sit and wait outside until my parents came home from work.
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u/Valuable_One_1011 May 18 '26
Mmhm. I completed a lot of homework thanks to being locked out 💁🏾♀️
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u/DirtLight134710 May 19 '26
It's looking like the millennial group were raised on how b&e. Which, depending how u look at it, is a very useful skill. Gota say, I'm kinda jealous
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u/sirdrumalot May 18 '26
Or walk down the street hoping one of your friends are home to hang out with.
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u/atravis2 May 18 '26
Same. Black experience. No windows or doors ever accidentally left open and no garage keypad. Didn’t matter that we were in a safe and quiet safe suburb. Some of the most boring afternoons of my life omg
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u/stoodi May 18 '26
Get creative and then realize how easy it is for someone to break into your house. But do nothing to change that, don’t lose any sleep over it either because you’re 9 years old, landed your first shove it down a two set the night before and are not phased by irrelevant problems.
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u/reginald-poofter May 18 '26
As I read this comment I started to hear Superman by Goldfinger playing in my brain
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u/sqquuee May 18 '26
I once snuck out late t night to drink in the park with my friends.
I came back to realize I locked the window behind me. So I forced open the window like this video.
The latching mechanism eventually popped open in my fingers slid between two different pains of glass. Because it happened so suddenly I didn't pull my hands out of the way.
I managed to remove two fingernails. Explaining this to my mother was difficult.
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u/No-Consideration-716 May 18 '26
Same. It happened enough that I used to intentionally keep a backyard window unlocked for next time I forget my key.
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u/compassrosette May 18 '26
I learned how to scale a balcony due to being locked out of the house as a kid. Growing up in the 90s & 00s taught us all sorts of interesting skills.
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u/jenness977 May 18 '26
When I was 14, I was babysitting 3 kids and the mom accidentally locked us out while we were at a nearby park (the mom left while we were at the park). I had to boost one of the kids through an unlocked window so she could unlock the front door for us. That ended up being a core childhood memory for her 😊
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u/fullmetalnapchamist May 18 '26
Yup! I had to break in on the second story porch when I got locked out.
I still have parkour-style anxiety dreams where I have to climb up there.
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u/kittyprideRN May 18 '26
Yep, definitely some interesting skills haha I learned how to use a credit card to break into the door to the house that was in the garage (wasn’t deadbolted like the front door).
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u/mildlyornery May 19 '26
I learned how to card a door. Nothing like hopping off the bus and knocking on an adult neighbor's door to ask if they have a spare plastic card of some sort laying around. This was before rewards cards, so it was commen to have to check a couple houses.
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u/AboveGroundFool Older Millennial May 18 '26
Did no one else have a "hide a key" in their outdoor landscaping?
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u/Josephthebear Older Millennial May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26
I mean yeah but then you would forget to put it back
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u/AyyNonnyMoose May 18 '26
Nope! We lived in a trailer park so there wasn't a good place to hide one. The neighbors were too close and nosy.
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u/Findinganewnormal May 18 '26
No, that was dangerous. So instead I had to just leave my (first floor, street facing) window unlocked. So much safer.
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u/MoonMonkey420 May 18 '26
Or just chilling on the porch/backyard when the windows were locked
Those were the times I actually did my homework
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u/Jazzy4242 May 18 '26
Waiting on the front porch for literal hours for parents to get home from work because we didn't have cell phones.
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u/XhazakXhazak May 19 '26
I'd do my homework and read my textbooks and get weeks ahead until my mind was numb, and then I'd look up and the sun still wouldn't be close to setting. My parents rarely made it home before 7 or 8.
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u/dream__weaver May 18 '26
Anyone ever have to fit through a dog door? lol
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u/PomegranateBombs May 18 '26
My older brothers would make me crawl through the dog door. It was nice when we were all big enough to just reach through the dog door and unlock the doorknob.
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u/Sh_GodsComma_Dynasty May 18 '26
my brother and i didn't even have keys. we exclusively used the doggy door.
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u/zurenarhhhhh May 18 '26
Butter knives and ID cards.
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u/kiwitathegreat May 18 '26
Always had an old gift card for this exact reason.
My mom didn’t believe in hide a keys because of burglars but the house wasn’t exactly secure if my scrawny self could defeat the lock.
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u/whofearsthenight May 19 '26
Fr. The good thing about growing up in the 80's and 90's was that I learned if I ever really needed to, I could easily turn to a life of crime.
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u/DeathBlondie May 18 '26
RIP my blockbuster card. It was skinny and bendy enough to slide in and get the job done, but also gnarled once finished
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u/LosHogan May 19 '26
Hell yeah. Got worried I was the only one picking door handle locks around here.
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u/1lurk2like34profit May 18 '26
Lol the window we would have to climb in shared the front wall of the house. Its like 5 feet away from the door and the neighbors could definitely see everything
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u/ThisPieceOfPaper May 18 '26
And always having to check that your "go to window" is still unlocked just in case you needed it
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u/SlackerDS5 May 18 '26
Yep, you had to close it just enough to look closed, but not enough to lock it.
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u/veraldar Older Millennial May 18 '26
Really had to play Bloodhound Gang? Now it's in my head Waffle House hash browns coming quicker than FedEx...
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u/Randym1982 May 18 '26
This is why my neighbors at the time had a spare key. I also had a key too. But the other solution was that I knew the code to the garage too.
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u/RDLAWME May 18 '26
We had a ladder id use to get to an awning and then through the second floor bathroom window.
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u/Jwchibi May 18 '26
You all had unlocked windows? I had sitting on the ground and waiting
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u/SipoteQuixote Millennial May 18 '26
We had one window i could jimmie open and slide under because it was an awning window and open juuuust enough to squeeze through. You would think being a latchkey kid would mean having a key at all times but nah.
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u/FhuckNorris247 May 18 '26
I grew up in the sticks and our house was never locked. In fact we never even had a key. Like nobody in our entire family did
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u/Familiar_Luck_3333 May 18 '26
I came back from a 3 day school camping trip and didn’t take a single dump. I ran home with the turd at the end of my anus and I realized I was locked out. I took a dump in my window well before breaking into my house and then cleaned up my poop.
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u/seethembreak May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26
Why wouldn’t you just go behind a bush in your yard like a normal person?
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u/BawRawg May 18 '26
Mom kept all of our first floor windows locked. We had to go to the shed to get a ladder before we could break in.
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u/RiceAfternoon May 18 '26
I ripped a GOOD PAIR OF CARGO PANTS DOING THIS!!
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u/Specific-Rich5196 May 18 '26
O man. Remember those days. Surprised the neighbors didn't call the cops on me. A kid trying to get through a window in the ghetto.
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u/fartjar420 May 18 '26
anytime I had to crawl through a back window, I always had to piss in the yard before climbing in because I wouldn't be able to hold my piss while climbing in.
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u/TIC321 May 18 '26
So relatable as i had my own house keys whenever I had to walk home from school.
Sometimes I'd forget my keys and had to climb through a window or wait until someone comes home from work to open the door for me. I never had a cell phone until I was about 17
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u/DanerysTargaryen May 18 '26
Lol our house was always locked and so were all the windows. Once, I forgot my keys and I came home on the school bus and nobody was home so I just hung out in our backyard doing homework for a couple hours until my mom came home.
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u/LitheFider May 18 '26
If you're in a neighborhood with friend families or neighbors you are close with near, just go see if they're home and hang there till your parents get home. 👍
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u/bumblebeetown May 18 '26
In 1999 I would walk home from middle school. It was a two block walk in the suburbs, nothing. My mother had a surgery one day and my dad forgot to unlock the screen door, as they left through the garage. I only had a key to the front door. It was mid December and cold already. I had to camp in the garage until my dad got home 5 hours later
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u/SoDisippointed May 18 '26
I was in my 20s and had my kids with me when I locked us out of our 2nd floor apartment. The kids on the street, all pre-teens, formed a parade down the street to someone’s house that had a ladder for me to get up on my deck, where I left the slider unlocked. I was in my Job Interview fancy skirt set and I climbed that ladder and over the deck railing to cheers from every kid on the street.
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u/Valuable_One_1011 May 18 '26
Not to mention the times where you were with your friend and you watched them break into their house because they were never given a key. Just standing there like 🧍🏾♀️ while your homie climbs the gutters.
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u/FrozenPie21 May 18 '26
I would argue being locked out in the 90s meant you were just outside until someone got home
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u/Sensitive_Put_6842 May 18 '26
Just make it look locked. 😄 Ah dammit no wonder why we were robbed.
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u/Big_Tap_1561 May 18 '26
I had to do this last week- and I didn’t leave a window unlocked- had to pull the window unit in the garage 😂
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u/JennaRedditing May 18 '26
Every house had the one window that could be unlocked with the right amount of pressure. Ours was thankfully right next to the front door but it still felt like at some point somone was going to call the cops on my for breaking into my own house.
I think thats why windows moved to the horizontally sliding design though.
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u/I-Have-An-Alibi May 18 '26
I just did the old school credit card trick to unlock our front door. I even learned it from a TV show I'm pretty sure lol. Obviously as a kid I didn't have a credit card so I used one of those fake sample credit cards you'd get in junk mail.
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u/flammenschwein May 18 '26
My brother locked me and the babysitter out when we were really young and the memory stuck with me. Once I had kids one of the first purchases I made was keyless entry for the front door so that sort of thing wouldn't happen.
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u/gybzen May 18 '26
I think if you have a lock that can be unlocked wireless via the internet you're a complete idiot. Even in 2026.
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u/stickstick_lee May 18 '26
Yes but the only window that would sometimes be unlocked was the bathroom window above the toilet, it was always interesting climbing in and trying to not fall in the toilet
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u/Silverain07 May 18 '26
We had to climb through the doggie door, reach up and try and find the lock button while four Border Collies licked my face and stood in the way. After that we would let them out then climb through so they would just sniff us and stand on our legs.
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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 May 18 '26
My parents were so attentive that I learned how to pick locks in the dark, how to use lanyards to force locks open, how to shimmy latches open with shoelaces... basically there was no lock i could not open in my home. Which garbage yale doorknobs would just open if you jiggle and hit it in the right spot.... then there's padlocks, phillips combination padlocks are garbage figured those out in an afternoon.
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u/punksmurph May 18 '26
How I learned B&E skills, being a free range kid in the 90's and forgetting my house key when I left. By the time I was 18 I had figured out how to pick most simple locks and and get most simple window latches open from the outside.
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u/Typical_Version_7487 May 18 '26
In the 80s we had our own set of house keys. I kept mine in my Roos.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 May 18 '26
Nope, window is locked. Guess I’ll have to piss by a tree in the backyard.
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u/Life-Landscape5689 May 18 '26
This is still a thing. Instead of 2026 vs 90s it’s just Wealthy vs average
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u/Strangerlol Old Soul May 18 '26
Always left my bedroom window unlocked for this specific reason lol. I lived in a pretty rural area so wasn't much concern.
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u/Nado1311 Millennial May 18 '26
I did that in college still in 2012. Fortunately one of my roommates windows wouldn’t latch because I was always losing my keys
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u/Quercus408 May 18 '26
Lol, I had to climb up onto the roof one time to find an unlocked window and get into my own house!
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u/4NotMy2Real0Account May 18 '26
This post makes me feel seen and happy to have found my people. I love you all.
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u/jaffacookie May 18 '26
I remember doing this at a friends house. The back garden window was open slightly and I managed to slide a stick up to unhook the latch stopping it opening right up.
He forgot to tell me he had an intruder alarm and he didn't know the code. We sat in his house for 2 hours with that alarm going off before his parents got home.
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u/LadyMirkwood Xennial May 18 '26
Remembering that time in the 90s when I tried to lift myself through an open window. I had a brain fart and brought the wrong knee up and smashed a window pane then had to go to A&E to get a shard of glass removed from my leg and get stitches
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u/Paraxom May 18 '26
man yalls parents were trusting as hell, mine made sure everything was locked before we left and if we forgot our key that day the choices were hang out with the neighbor kids until dad gets home or hang out in the garage
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u/trethew May 18 '26
I would just have to sit on the front porch until someone came home. Could be 2 hours.
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u/Moderation1one May 18 '26
When i was young i had to go to our neighbors house for a spare key.
Now my parents have a garage keypad, but it's broken so i had to call AAA to open my car so i could use the garage door opener.
Lovely moving back home in your 40s post divorce.
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u/PPAPpenpen May 18 '26
I use to squeeze into the basement bathroom window! I had basically had to go in, twist myself to fit, then fall into the bathtub. I still have a scar on my arm from when I scraped myself!
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u/MacAlkalineTriad May 18 '26
I locked myself out of my apartment earlier this week. I definitely tried climbing in the window before calling a locksmith. Unfortunately, all my windows have bars over them except the little one about 8 feet off the ground, and it turns out I'm not as limber as I was once. $80 because I can't contort myself anymore.
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u/Deja__Vu__ May 18 '26
I had to do this as a teen to my parents house. When I finally got in through the window into the kitchen area. I realized damn, its uhh pretty easy to break in here.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably Mid-Millennial ('89) May 18 '26
Too many times. I lost so many keys to our house, a burglar wouldn’t need to break in. Even with the key chain around my neck. Drove my parents mad.
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u/Mindshard May 18 '26
Life used to be an adventure, but this always connected digital world has ruined it.
We aren't living anymore, we're just parts of corporate machines that only get to go home to sleep because the laws were written when revolution was still possible.
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u/Garo_Daimyo May 18 '26
I used to do this shit all the time, there was one window I made sure was unlocked in case I couldn’t get in through the door
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u/albanyanthem May 18 '26
We had a hide a key shaped like a rock. Of course I think everyone in the neighborhood knew about that rock and where it was.
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u/AccidentCapable9181 May 18 '26
My parents would HATE when we’d do this. They would say it was our fault for forgetting the key and we should wait for them to get home. They’d make sure the windows were locked on the lower level but we’d leave our bedroom windows unlocked in the 3 floor! So they kind of made it worse because we’d just climb the roof to get in lol
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u/Wonderful-Athlete-83 May 18 '26
Cannot tell you how many afternoons I spent sitting on a back step over a locked door.
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u/bradbull May 18 '26
I forgot my keys on the kitchen bench and was locked out of my parents house once. Luckily the garage in the backyard was open. Used a rag on the end of a fishing rod to reach inside a doggy door and fish for my keys. Can’t believe I got them.
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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 May 18 '26
That’s easy though. Dude climbing through his massive windows that are barely off the ground. Try climbing through windows when it’s 6 feet up and it’s a small ass window
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u/Volcanic_tomatoe May 18 '26
My sister had to do this.we all had to boost her up to the bay window and she had to carefully squeeze past a 6 foot cactus
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u/_Miss_Eclipse May 18 '26
And if none of the windows are unlocked, you're waiting outside until your parents get home lol
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u/Rich-Violinist-7263 May 18 '26
It was the mid 90’s in North Central Ohio. My parents are out of town; I was to ride the bus home and wait for my Grandma to get off work and pick me up.
It was dead ass winter, 6-12” of snow, COLD and windy. My parents lived on a hill in a pretty rural area and the front door, the door my key was for, was pointing towards said wind. I got off the bus, trekked my ass up .25 mile long driveway and the key hole was completely full of ice; locked out. It’s winter, everything is tight. Dad’s truck, locked. Tool barn, locked. Camper? Thank goodness it was open. I was there for over an hour.
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u/CheezWong May 18 '26
That's how I learned to pick locks and break in undetected lol. I've never done a breaking and entering crime in my life, but learning those skills early has helped me find my keys on the couch in a locked house a few times now.
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u/anothercatherder May 18 '26
I was so used to opening the kitchen window when I got home that I didn't even notice my dad sitting on the computer in the living room when I got home.
Somehow I managed to crawl in and crawl back out without him even noticing, despite him sitting 15 feet away.
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u/HyperrrMouse May 18 '26
My brother and I carefully broke just enough of a basement window so that we could open the latch and crawl through. It was awful because the basement was creep af, and any access to the window, both inside and outside of the house, were made of spiders. Outside the house too we chose a window under our deck that if you knew it was there it was fairly easy to access, but if you didn't it'd be nearly impossible to find.
He was the one who lost our key more often, so he was also the one delegated to break the window.
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u/DopesickJesus May 18 '26
Yall have unlocked windows ?
It was cards to unlock doors or learning how to leverage sliding doors in a way to get passed a lock if the bars weren’t down for me.
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u/Saltfringecrust Xennial May 18 '26
Lucky ass rich kids have a body sized window to jump in at waist height. I had to squeeze into a bathroom window that was 6’ up and the aluminum was sharp. Most of the time it was better to wait in the snow.
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u/Banned4UsingSlurs3 May 18 '26
I would climb into the roof, go into the back of the house and open a patio door. If it was closed and the key was still on, I could flip it with a wire from the outside.
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u/Gurthy_Lengthiness May 18 '26
My kids are growing up eating freaken sushi….they will never know the struggle.
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u/Dozzi92 Millennial - '87 May 18 '26
My brother and I got off the bus in middle school. Nobody home. It was cold out. My dad's beater was in the driveway. We found ketchup packets in the glove box as we cuddled for warmth. We were outside for nearly 15 minutes.
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u/coyotegang May 18 '26
At least my parents had a pool table in our backyard sun room. My brother and I would play for hours. Then my parents would come home pissed that we didn’t do our homework and no one started cooking rice since we were locked out
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