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TIFU by flushing my only car key in the toilet

This happened just a few hours ago. I came home from work and went to the bathroom to take a piss. I flushed the toilet, turned toward the sink to wash my hands, and in that process my car's only key was ejected from my sweater's pocket and landed straight into the toilet as it was at peak flush.

I didn't have enough time to react and grab the key before it went down the drain. I saw it get swallowed and was mortified. I yelled many massive FUCKs and my wife banged on the door wondering if I was critically injured or something.

I desperately stuck my hand into the toilet drain to see if the key was miraculously stuck there. Obviously it wasn't. I live in an apartment building so I talked to the building management to ask if it's realistic to recover it. As I thought, it wasn't. Plus it was in the evening so maintenance staff are gone anyway.

I scrambled to figure out my options. My first instinct was to call my car dealership which is quite close to me, to ask how much it would cost to get a new key. They said it would be $200 but I would need to tow it there within an hour and a half to get it today. Luckily I told one of my best friends about this mishap and he recommended that I call an automotive locksmith instead. I did that, the guy wanted $200, and he came to me instead of getting a tow truck, so I saved at least $150. Plus he made me a spare key so I can have a backup in case I fuck up again in the future.

The other fuck up was that my toddler heard me yell FUCK many times and started to repeat it. Luckily he got over it quickly.

Basically this was a horrible TIFU but also a TIL. I learned that it's better to call an automotive locksmith than pay quite a lot more to tow your car to the dealership in such a shitty situation.

TL;DR - accidentally flushed the only copy of my car's keys down the toilet, my son learned a new curse word, but it ended up working out despite setting me back $200

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