$65 Worth of Motivation

I don't know how many times we've said that we need to replace the extra house key that we keep hidden in the garage for emergencies. It disappeared a long time ago, leaving us with just one house key on Jas's car keyring. We always go through the garage to get in the house, so we never need a house key. It just wasn't a priority to replace the spare. Until last night. We (actually Jas, but I won't nitpick) locked the door from the garage to the house and then locked the front door on our way out to go eat dinner. We returned from a nice dinner (nice except for the screaming toddler who hates his car seat and restaurant highchairs) to find ourselves locked out of the house on a Saturday night. Just so you know, there is only one locksmith working on Saturday night, and it's a ripoff business called "Liberty Lock" - a call center out of NYC who contracts locksmiths in Tulsa and other cities to come to your house and charge $65 for 30 seconds of work. There's actually a BBB ripoff alert for this group, but what do you do when no one else can come? Long story short, I got 5 new house keys today and placed them strategically to avoid a visit from Liberty again.