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TIFU by forgetting my car key at my in-laws over the holidays

So basically my wife is from California I’m from Indiana. We were going to go visit her family but wanted the cheapest tickets possible so I drove to Saint Louis and fly to Vegas and connect to San Diego. The trip there was stressful to say the least with my 5 month old baby and wife that is over tired and stressed about seeing her family. They haven’t seen us since the baby was born.

I’m California we were happy that we got there with semi minimal complications and enjoyed our time eating good food. Well the day we are supposed to leave comes and we are packed and ready to go. But our first connecting flight got canceled due to Covid, no big deal let’s just take a bus to Vegas it’s only a couple hour drive and only sets us back 130$. We’ll the bus was late over an hour then took almost 8 hours of driving to get to Vegas.

Once we arrive we get a picture from her mom of my car key. Left in the room when we left in a hurry. So I start calling locksmiths to see if I can have a copy made. I set an appointment and I meet him at my car at the airport. He hands me the paper and said that will be 320$ I was taken back because on the phone he made it sound like it was going to be more like 150 but didn’t give me a number so I guess it is my fault. So now I’m in over 450 dollars extra on top of the 100$ parking and 80$ gas there and 80 back. So lesson learned. Pay the extra 200$ for direct flights.

TL:DR Forgot my key in California for my car and now I’m broke trying to fix my mistake.

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