Hi everyone! I’m an art student working on a project about keys, and l’d love to hear personal stories behind them🥺 Would anyone be willing to share a key that means something to them, along with the story behind it? ❗️Please avoid posting photo of your actual keys, just in case someone might misuse them.

  • It could be a house key connected to a special memory, something that happened in a particular place, or even a small part of your everyday life.

  • It doesn’t have to be a house key, either. Maybe it belongs to a drawer, or something else entirely. Perhaps there’s a reason you’ve kept it for years, or a memory attached to it that you’ve never really thought about sharing.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who feels like sharing☺️

  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I bought a skeleton key from the hardware store for a house that was about a hundred years old, to test if the locks in my house worked. It did, and for the next couple of months, I’d prank people by locking the door to their room, or the bathroom. Never locking them in, just out, and then when they wandered off frustrated, I’d open it back up.

    I’ve always pranked people, but them not knowing there was a key to their own bedroom is always gonna be one of the better pranks I did.

    Dunno if that’ll quite fit your goal, but I still have that skeleton key, kept it even when a tooth broke off and it stopped working.

    • 0094@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      19 hours ago

      This is genuinely hilarious, you became the true ruler of the house >:3 I kind of wish someone would prank me like that just so I could experience the frustration myself, especially when I need to use the toilet hahaha. But seriously, a skeleton key is so cool!? Does that mean I could use it to unlock everyone’s front door :3333

      And yes, I really love this adorable story. I hope that key stays by your side for a long, long time. If I were you, I’d be showing it off to all my close friends😼

      • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 hours ago

        This is the key in question, before it lost a notch, and while it does work on most locks from the time, just looking at it tells you how well it’d work on a modern lock, and our front door had been modernized, unfortunately for my schemes.

        Had a ton of fun with it.