Have you picked a lock?

[Sleeping in EQ]

I'm not asking anyone to discuss illegal activity....

[Bo Diddley]

I'm actually pretty good at it, and it's come in handy many times. At times I've had to improvise and make my own tools.

[Jeff Lebowski]

This was one of my hobbies as a kid. It fascinated me. I had several tools that I made for picking locks.

[Surfah]

Yes. I used to have a lock picking kit and would sit on my porch picking the lock and deadbolt on our front door. My dad taught me how. I got to the point where I could get into my front door in under 5 seconds.

[Uncle Ted]

Yeah, and I use to figured out the combination on locks that I found laying around the school and then I would sell them (back) to students. I would drill a small hole in the back of the lock just big enough to see the combo dials inside. The gym teacher started giving me the locks he found laying around the locker room. It was a nice business in middle school.

[Bo Diddley]

Bunch of criminals on this board.

[Bo Diddley]

Ha! Late, but not late enough. We waited on the ramp for an open gate, and missed our flight while we were waiting. Next up, the 2:35 flight now scheduled to leave at 4:05.

I just need to get back tonight to prep for our carpet installers tomorrow.

[Moliere]

We locked ourselves out of our apartment in Paris. My comp and I went around the corner to the local locksmith and he gave us a piece of film/paper that x rays are developed on. I used it to get the door open by sliding it into the door jam and forcing the dead latch to open. Way to easy to do, but it’s not like we were worried since we owned nothing that was worth anything to anyone.

[clackamascoug]

My friend and I went through a phase of lock picking. School lockers and master locks in the "locker-room" were nothing to open.

[myboynoah]

I've recovered masterlock combinations by using directions from the internet, so I'm going to say yes.

[Scott R Nelson]

No, haven't picked a lock. But way back in the olden days I could sometimes open a combination lock without knowing the combination.

And I know at least half a dozen different ways to break a lock. I had a summer job before I got married working for Granite School District with the crew that fixed lockers in the high schools and junior highs. We opened the lockers that people had put unauthorized locks on.

And I now own a set of bolt cutters after my daughter had to get into a storage unit that she didn't have a key for. That's definitely the fastest way.

[Green Monstah]

I don't have the patience for that. But I had a mission comp who brought a lock-picking set with him, which came in handy when breaking into the church library to make photocopies.

[myboynoah]

I don't have the patience for that. But I had a mission comp who brought a lock-picking set with him, which came in handy when breaking into the church library to make photocopies.

Ha. We just used to climb through an open window.

We were missionaries and on the Lord's errand. Anything goes.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Just got back from the annual in-law Lake Powell trip. We pulled up to the marina to unload the Odyssey when a conversation I had with my wife just before we locked up the house, came flooding back.

W: Do we really need to take your set of keys?
M: I guess not.

When she handed me her keys to unlock the Thule rocketbox on top of the car, I discovered that she had removed her copy of the key some time ago to help uncluttered her purse.

W: What’s up there?
M: Just life jackets. And sleeping bags. And the paddle board that you thought I wanted for Father’s Day.

Turned out that my brother-in-law had a similar Thule box for their car and even though the number on his key did not match the number on my lock, in a moment of significant relief, and a bit of determination, it seems that any Thule key will open any Thule rack. This relief did not last long into the night when I remembered this detail laying in bed at our hotel room in St. George on the way home.


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[myboynoah]

Just got back from the annual in-law Lake Powell trip. We pulled up to the marina to unload the Odyssey when a conversation I had with my wife just before we locked up the house, came flooding back.

W: Do we really need to take your set of keys?
M: I guess not.

When she handed me her keys to unlock the Thule rocketbox on top of the car, I discovered that she had removed her copy of the key some time ago to help uncluttered her purse.

W: What’s up there?
M: Just life jackets. And sleeping bags. And the paddle board that you thought I wanted for Father’s Day.

Turned out that my brother-in-law had a similar Thule box for their car and even though the number on his key did not match the number on my lock, in a moment of significant relief, and a bit of determination, it seems that any Thule key will open any Thule rack. This relief did not last long into the night when I remembered this detail laying in bed at our hotel room in St. George on the way home.


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You drive an Odyssey. When we were minivanning it, I loved our Odyssey.