Where are my papers! (long)

[It shouldn't]

I've just remembered another one with and Alsheimerisch undertone from 1/2 a year ago.

Background:
Older lady (OL) comes into the shop. Seems her husband had taken the lock of the back door and installed a new one. They've locked the door and taken the key and went out shopping and got home to find they can't get the new lock to unlock.

I set up a service call for our tech to meet them at their house in about 1/2 hr.

Tech goes and does his thing, turns out the key they had with them, was not even for that lock. He made keys for the lock and never did figure out what the other ones went to. He did say that these people seem to be hoarders, as there was stuff stacked to the celling all throughout their house with just little walkways in between.

Approx 1 hr goes by and the old lady is back at my shop.

OL= Old (batty) lady
Me =

Me: How can I help you?
OL: <high pitched shrill voice> WHERE ARE MY PAPERS?
Me: ???.......... I'm sorry?
OL: HE TOOK AAALLLLL MY PAPERS! WHAT DID HE DO WITH THEM?
Me: Who???
OL: THE GUY!!! I WANT YOU TO GIVE ME BACK MY PAPERS!
Me: What papers and who??? Do you mean our service guy?
OL: YES, THE GUY. HE TOOK AAAALLLLL MY PAPERS AND I WANT THEM BACK!
Me: What kind of papers?
OL: AAAALLLLLL OF THEM. HE TOOK THEM AAALLLL!
Me: What kind of papers, mam?
OL: AAALLLL OF THEM <rant, rant about aaalllll of her papers and she needs aaalll of them back>
Me: Mam, calm down. Please describe to me what kind of papers you are missing and I will contact the service guy and find out if maybe he moved them by accident.
OL: AAALLLLL OF THEM! I KNOW HE TOOK THEM! MAKE HIM GIVE THEM BACK!

~~ I called the tech, who denied even touching anything that might have looked like paper at her house. Yet she kept insisting he must have taken aalllll of her papers. She would not leave. She just stood there and kept screaming about all her papers, which we supposedly stole. Customers came, had keys made and went and and she still stood there demanding all her papers. When pressed for a description she just kept saying " AAAALLLLL of them"

Finally in a last ditch effort I called the local police dept.
Officer came.
Officer got screamed at about aaallllll her papers.
Officer never did get an answer on what kind of papers, either.
Officer finally told her to leave and figure out exactly what kind of papers.
Officer watched her get in the dented up car out front with her even older husband at the wheel
Officer watched them back into a tree
Officer watched them side swipe one of those yellow waist high poles in front of the sign.
Officer watched them pull right out into traffic without stopping or watching for cars on the main road.
Officer heard many breaks screeching and many horns
Officer ran to his cruiser, jump in and tore after them with sirens blaring.

I never did figure out what kind of papers.

..................about 4 hours later I get a call from a lady about her elderly neighbors, who are locked out of their house. Same address as OL
They propably took the wrong key with them again. Tech remembered the cuts on the key and I told the neighbor for HER to come and pick up a spare at our shop. NOT OL, but HER.

Neighbor told me that she has been trying to get social services to pay a visit for almost a year now.

[sixums]

I wish we had a smiley for digging your palms into your eyes and then dragging them down your face in PAIN. Because that's exactly what I did. GAH.

I'm sorry. I don't have that much patience. Maybe next time you should mark the keys with paint or tape so they can try to remember which one it was?

[Bliss]

I wish we had a smiley for digging your palms into your eyes and then dragging them down your face in PAIN.

I know they're called that because the original smileys (I know the story, I'm a geek) where used for smiles... but there is something horribly perverse about calling THAT action a "smiley"

[Chromatix]

The more general term is "Emoticon".

[Evil Queen]

I know they're called that because the original smileys (I know the story, I'm a geek) where used for smiles... but there is something horribly perverse about calling THAT action a "smiley"

Sorry, I ed.

I put tape on my keys that tell me which ones are which. Yes.

[Retail Associate]

...I put tape on my keys that tell me which ones are which. Yes.

Ah...me, too! I have so many keys here that I don't know what they go to. So, for the ones I DO know, I identify them.

I never throw away keys. You never know when you may need one of them, even if you have no idea what they're for. I'll bet I still have the key to the old breezeway door that was replaced 17 years ago.

[rerant]

This is why I get those decorated keys with the pictures on them.
That and they're more fun.

[sixums]

I know they're called that because the original smileys (I know the story, I'm a geek) where used for smiles... but there is something horribly perverse about calling THAT action a "smiley"

! I'm sorry!!! I'm so used to calling them that, I rarely even notice things like that!

My parents and our neighbors share a driveway, so we're always watching each other's cats when one goes away. They have SO many freaking keys on their key ring we just took to putting different colored tape on each to keep them straight.

[PhiSigGirl1988]

I never did figure out what kind of papers.

After all that, my guess is tickets and/or accident reports.

[eltf177]

After all that, my guess is tickets and/or accident reports.

I got the impression it was her newspapers for some reason.