(Well, here we are again at 2 AM and another sleepless night. I have been trying to fall asleep and STAY asleep for the past 4 hours and have finally given up and turned to my favorite middle of the night pass time. I have been "chewing on" this blog for a while now so I guess this is the time to get it out of my head.)
A few weeks ago I got noticing the keys people carry. EVERYONE has a key ring with some keys on it. You figure most of us have a car so there's one key. Then we have our home so that's at least one other key, possibly two if you have a side door and maybe even 3 if you have a garage door. Add them up and you are carrying about 4 keys that you need on a daily basis.
Have you looked at your key ring lately? Count the keys! I bet you have way more than 4 keys. How does that happen? Where did these keys come from and what the hell are they for? Bet you have at least one key on there that you haven't got the foggiest idea what it is for.
Now if you are anything like H you have way more than just one mystery key on your ring. But I think we need to back up a minute and take a look at the key ring itself.
H has a key ring that could anchor the QE II. He found the key ring years ago in a sporting goods store in the mountain climbing section. (Don't ask, the man has never climbed a mountain or a set of stairs in his life!) The carabiner is huge but he liked that because he thought it would keep him from loosing it. (NOT) This has been his key ring for years. Then he got sick, lost all sorts of weight and between the 42 pound set of keys in one pocket and the $14 worth of loose change in his other pocket, his pants kept falling down. He finally emptied his pockets of the loose change after he lost his keys. Problem solved. He was convinced the keys were GONE but they did show up a couple of weeks later. I knew if he had dropped them some where the 3.5 earthquake would have signaled us to their falling so I figured they would turn up. But in the mean time H bought another carabiner, a smaller version of the original, replaced the car key and 2 house keys so now he is good to go. The first set of mystery keys remains in his dresser in case he ever figures out what the other 6 keys are for.
That's the thing. We all have keys on our key ring that we haven't got a clue what they are for. They appeared on our key ring on day and haven't left since. And heaven forbid we should "get rid" of them because we may just find ourselves locked out of, (or in), someplace we haven't been in the past 30 years!
And that's another thing . . . how do you get rid of old keys? You can't just throw them in the garbage because some rogue rat or sea gull at the dump may get its paws or claws on it and track us down in the middle of the night. (Don't tell me you haven't thought that!) I just can't THROW OUT a key. There is just something wrong about that. What if I discover a hidden suitcase in the back of my closet and it is locked and I have thrown out the key? And so we keep the keys on the ring, JUST IN CASE.
But the keys really aren't what I have got noticing. It is the Key Ring and additional baubles that are on the ring that interest me. H has a tire gauge on his key ring. Has H ever checked the tire pressure on any of our cars? NO! But on Father's day our church gave all the dads a little card with a tire gauge on it. Now it's on the key ring. Some folks have religious medals, some have those little tags from the library, grocery store and other places they frequent. Some people find it necessary to put HUGE alphabet letters on their key ring so in case they forget their names they will at least have a clue. There are feathers. bones, jewels and junk but we all have SOMETHING hanging from our key rings to distinguish our selves from the next guy. And all those baubles say something about us. I haven't got a clue what they say but I'm sure some psychologist would have a field day with this.
As for myself, I actually have 2 key rings that I carry each day. One for the Rav 4, which is the "family car" and one for MY car. The RAV ring has 2 keys on it, one for the house, one for the car and the ring has 2 pastel plastic sea shells on it. MY keys are on a purple metal shark whose teeth are a beer bottle opener. Need I say any more?
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