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Keys.
I spent 12-1/2 years as the swing shift maintenance mechanic and first responder at the biggest hospital/teaching university in Portland (Oregon).
This place has 13,000 people who work there. Like a small city.
It has LOTS of doors.
There’s a key ring that weighs four pounds, and carries all the keys to closets, electrical vaults, tele-com room, labs, and EVERYONE’S office in eighteen buildings, except the pharmacies and public safety.
I lost that ring one night.
I realized it only half an hour later, but it could be anywhere I have been, and I cover a lot of ground.
Not a frantic search. More of an instant total insanity search. Main hospital, two research buildings, the school of nursing. Nada.
If I don’t find these keys, I am SO fired. The Grand Masters, 4 keys that will open 80% of the doors on campus are on that ring.
In the morning, even if I quit and am gone from here, the three lock Smith’s that work on campus are going to drive to my house, and when they’re done, I’m gonna have more “keyholes” in me than a sieve, and they might incinerate me to make sure.
I beat my head against the wall, and FINALLY remember that I had to call one of the men in the boiler plant earlier to take me with some heavy tools across campus.
Go to the boiler plant and search.
The keys turned up in his truck where they had popped the belt clip I used and fell on the seat.
Don’t never want to do that again.
Funny as a rubber crutch, AFTERWARD !