I'd keep the keys attached to a belt or wrists or something. If I lived there long enough, I'd even steal the lid and replace it with something finer...
I hate drain holes that appear to go all the way down to bedrock where you can feel heat coming from the earth below. Like it's the first chapter of Journey to the Center of the Earth.
At least where i live your regular home locks are secure enough that non-destructive entry requires specialized tools and close to LPL level skill. In my country there was once a serial burglar that could do that and for a long time police didnt even believe the that there even was any burglary.
Seeing all these “just get a giant key chain” comments reminds me that Lemmy’s core user base is the software engineer who stores a giant keychain in his cargo shorts, along side a multitool and the world’s thickest wallet.
Look... If you had... one shot... or one opportunity...
To open every door you ever wanted... one moment...
Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?
Yo
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to drops bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
what he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his hands but the keys won't come out
He's chokin, how? Everybody's jokin now
The clock's run out, time's up, over - BLAOW!
There isn’t a specific phobia for this situation, however the only one I could think of is trypophobia, which is the fear of clusters of small holes or bumps, and a fear of losing something valuable or important
If you had a basement that lead up to that drain you could put some mesh angled down, busy a hole into the the drain from your basement and if some stranger tries to grab your keys you can drop them inside.
if some stranger tries to grab your keys you can drop them inside.
When it finally happens
"HA, I've been waiting 49 years for this exact situation! they all said I crazy."
Old man shouts at sky "I told you Grettle that I'd have a use for that hole someday!!!"
A few moments later
"Now, how do I get to the basment with no key"