TIFU by dropping my keys...

...down this ~20 foot deep storm drain. It happened simple enough. I was making my way to the nearby OfficeMax for some pens, and no more than three steps out of my car, I drop my keys. I didn't drop them, and kick them into the drain. I didn't drop them, and watch in slow motion as they teetered perilously on the edge before finally falling in. I dropped them right down that hole like I was some sort of professional basketball player swishing a three pointer.

My first thought was "Wow, they took a good two seconds to hit the bottom... that's a deep-ass hole". Then rage washed over me, only to be quickly flushed out by an utter sense of disbelief. I mean, who drops their keys down a storm drain? I've only seen that kind of absurdity happen in sitcoms but there I was, in my own living Seinfeld-esque nightmare. It wasn't hard to determine my options in the parking lot, I only had about two. Fish them out, or tear up my colum and hotwire my poor 1976 El Camino.

So on I went, into the OfficeMax in search of magnets and string. At this point, the absolute silliness of the situation had me laughing at myself, and muttering about living in a sitcom. I'm sure the staff thought I was a bit off. To my surprise, they had a pack of small, disk shaped magnets that looked like they would work perfectly. Also to my surprise, they didn't have any string whatsoever. What they did have, however, was a pack of multicolored pipe cleaners. So after almost walking out without what I came for originally, the pens, I made my way back to my car, and got to work.

With a big, dumb grin still plastered in my face I began twisting the pipe cleaners end to end. After a total of twenty gold, and silver angels I sandwiched the magnets on the end, and put my game face on. With great care I began feeding my line down that deep asshole. Carefully, and with a quiet giggle, I finally reached the bottom of the hole, and began fishing for my keys. Through some amazing feat of skill ^luck I hooked my keys on the first swing. The look on my face had to have been one of pure manic joy as I gingerly hoisted the keys back up, and out of that drain. With great swearing, and cheering I packed up my rescue supplies, cleaned off my keys, and headed home.

TL;DR Dropped my keys down a giant gaping asshole

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