Nowhere did it say “based on a true story”

It’s an issue for real keys, where someone can get a key cut to match a photo, but this is a skeleton key, it’s not keyed to anyone’s lock in particular and is freely available to purchase. Anyone with vintage locks that work with this key should just consider their door unlocked for security purposes, and either replace or supplement it with a modern lock.

So yeah if you want one you can get them at most hardware stores, it was like 6$, and came in a pack of two. (I lost one like a day after I got it, so I only ever really had the one).

This is the key in question, before it lost a notch, and while it does work on most locks from the time, just looking at it tells you how well it’d work on a modern lock, and our front door had been modernized, unfortunately for my schemes.

Had a ton of fun with it.

I bought a skeleton key from the hardware store for a house that was about a hundred years old, to test if the locks in my house worked. It did, and for the next couple of months, I’d prank people by locking the door to their room, or the bathroom. Never locking them in, just out, and then when they wandered off frustrated, I’d open it back up.

I’ve always pranked people, but them not knowing there was a key to their own bedroom is always gonna be one of the better pranks I did.

Dunno if that’ll quite fit your goal, but I still have that skeleton key, kept it even when a tooth broke off and it stopped working.

And good for the credit union, they did.

Now she’s unemployed.