I forgot my key on the hole and locked the door when I got in. Now I can’t open the door.

I’m not concerned, the wife is hanging with a friend, so she’ll be able to open the door when she gets back, but I was planning to go get a pizza

  • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you have a door with a keyhole on both sides, and you leave the key in one side, you then can’t lock it from the other (the key won’t go in).

    So I’d expect your door to either not lock from the inside or (more likely given it’s just a turn handle), both lock and unlock.

    Locking and not unlocking is very strange.

    The Yale locks that used to be very common here had the opposite problem - if you left your key behind you could quite easily lock yourself out, as the door would lock on closing.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      if you left your key behind you could quite easily lock yourself out, as the door would lock on closing.

      Electronic locks here. Checking for the badge/card or the fob is something I learned when moving from a more- to less-secure area at work when there was more secret-squirrel stuff than now (more ‘private-possum’ than ‘secret-squirrel’ at this place), and that reflexive check at home when leaving the apartment has saved my bacon.

      (And yes, if I activate the elevator keypad I can only go to my own floor and to common-area floors with it. It’s pretty cool)