What does one do when you forget your locker key?
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What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby rolandp » Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:57 pm
Walked around the office with a pair of shorts, cycling shoes and a work shirt.
I'll get a spare key cut tomorrow.
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby casual_cyclist » Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:40 am
I leave a shirt, trousers, toilet bag and shoes in my locker. I figure no one would want that stuff so I don't lock it. I don't wear fancy clothes so it's not much of a risk and cheap to replace. In 2 years, nothing has gone missingrolandp wrote:Happened to me today. Small emergency at work, and needed to get in early. In the confusion, forgot to pack the locker key, so wasn't able to get into my locker which includes work trousers, shoes, towel etc.
Walked around the office with a pair of shorts, cycling shoes and a work shirt.
I'll get a spare key cut tomorrow.
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Postby m@ » Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:43 am
I used to work over the road from a shopping mall, one day I got a lift home so didn't have my suit trousers at work and forgot to bring them the next day - just walked over the road and bought a pair of jeans.
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby eucryphia » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:09 pm
I have my locker key, usb dongle and others attached to my security pass, which I have to wear all the time at work.
When not wearing my pass, I keep it on a clip provided inside my pannier / briefcase.
If I forget my pass, I have a spare locker key in my desk drawer.
I did have to wear a mates spare pair of pants about 6 years ago, he was one size smaller than me.
I've loaned out my backup shirt once.
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Postby CommuRider » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:18 pm
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Postby CommuRider » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:22 pm
You're at the bleeding edge of summer fashion. Saw a female wearing a belted tight canvas shorts with a pin-striped short-sleeved shirt and a nice pair of flat shoes. The combo looked good.rolandp wrote: Walked around the office with a pair of shorts, cycling shoes and a work shirt.
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Postby Aushiker » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:55 am
I normally leave a week's worth of clothes at work, but got in one morning and found I had no pants. Had to ride home and back again ... took a good 2.5 hours. If I leave my office key at home, FMO lend me a spare for the day.
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Postby Kalgrm » Sun Oct 10, 2010 4:05 pm
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby Fletcher » Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:16 am
Forgot my shirt a couple of times, hung around the mall until shops opened. Leaving the locker key at home would be a righteous pita.Kalgrm wrote:Go shopping for new clothes and shoes ...
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Postby casual_cyclist » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:02 am
Done it.Kalgrm wrote:Go shopping for new clothes and shoes ...
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby Baalzamon » Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:52 pm
Packed my pannier bags lastnight and forgot shirt. Wouldn't have been an issue if I didn't have to go out onsite to see a customer
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Postby AUbicycles » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:42 am
That is so simple, it could be genius.Kalgrm wrote:Go shopping for new clothes and shoes ...
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby casual_cyclist » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:26 pm
Done it. I actually had to push my hand past my trousers (in my locker) to reach my shoes and went shopping in all my lycra clad splendour.AUbicycles wrote:That is so simple, it could be genius.Kalgrm wrote:Go shopping for new clothes and shoes ...
After my shower tried to put on the jeans I just bought. Went back to my locker and realised I already had trousers so wore those
Returned the jeans at lunch time but kept the t-shirt and wore that with my trousers. Got told I looked like a rock star
Ahh, the joys of senility setting in.
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Postby just4tehhalibut » Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:27 pm
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby ThatOtherGuy » Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:12 pm
Ride back home and call in sick. Helps when your locker/bikerack and workplace are at two different locations so no one has seen you come and go.
My locker key, access cards, office keys etc are all on one key ring and lanyard so normally I do not forget them but if I do I am totally screwed and so resort to the above remedy.
paraphrasing Edmund Burke [1729-1797]
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Postby m@ » Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:48 pm
Ditto.rolandp wrote:We used to have to wait until someone dies before we can get a spare locker.
Worst thing about the facilities at my current work is that the showers and lockers are in the basement with the aircon condensers and no ventilation. Even in midwinter when it's -5 outside, the basement is like a sauna. I've found it's actually better to shower before the ride, grab my clothes and get changed in the toilets on the floor my desk is on than try to shower at work - end up more sweaty than when I arrived.
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby just4tehhalibut » Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:42 pm
P.S just found out, carrying your keys on a carabiner is not good. Unless it is a locking carabiner and all sticky taped up just to be sure, something I'll do next time, after I get new keys cut.
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Re: What does one do when you forget your locker key?
Postby CommuRider » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:48 am
Our security people gave us a grilling first before they'd give us a bike locker ie if you'll use it every day etc. The keypad access also allows them to monitor our "movements" ie if we're using the bike facility every day as we said we would. The good thing though is the head security is a bike fanatic so he understands the needs of us commutersjust4tehhalibut wrote: If I'd asked 18 months before I could have had his locker way back. Got a few other spare lockers that way, got a few people happy. Worth asking sometimes.
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