So I get home from work yesterday and want to mow the lawn. I get the keys and go out to the shed.
Unlock the shed, can't get the key out, so I jiggle it a little like I normally have to, the keychain falls apart, and as I'm looking down I see the key to the lawnmower take one hop and right between he wood slats that make up the ramp to the shed.
No effing way.
I look over the situation, decide we must have a spare key. WRONG
Go back out and look again. I decide to get a crowbar. Back to the garage get crowbar.
Go back to the shed, the guy that lived here before me was a hack, so I figured this would be easy, pry off the slat, get key, pound slat back on. WRONG. The one thing he did right, screwed it in. I was able to pry it up just enough to see the key and swear it was laughing at me. Swear at it again.
Back to the garage, to find a needle-nose pliers. I also grabbed a snake magnet and a tin snips. Why the tin snips? I don't know, it was long and thin.
Back to the shed. Pry it open enough to get the snake magnet in there, and it grabs the key. Pull it out slowly but the opening isn't big enough and the key pops off. Back in with the magnet, this time the key turns, but doesn't fall off...... SUCCESS!!!!!
Get the mower out and drive it around front, but notice it's not turning very easily. I inspect the mower and find I have a flat tire. Decide to take tire off and go get it filled, only taking the tire off would be a PITA so I decide to run to Home Depot and buy a compressor.
Get home fill tire.
Fire up the mower, and get about a 1/4 of the way done and run out of gas. I forgot I ran it really low last time planning for winter.
Head to gas station, fill gas can, get back home, fill tank up a little bit and finally finish mowing the lawn. A 2 1/2 hour job that normally takes me about an hour or so,