Locked up

[ewx]

Lately my procedure for locking my bike up has been:

1. Fish keys out of pocket
2. Unlock padlock
3. Return keys to pocket
4. Unloop chain from handlebars (it's not locked to the handlebars in any sense, but unlocking it makes it a little easier).
5. Lock padlock
6. Fish keys out of pocket
7. Unlock padlock
8. Return keys to pocket
9. Loop chain around bike and stand
10. Lock padlock

As it happens I think I've mostly broken out of this, but it was annoying while it lasted.

How do you break this kind of antipattern?

Comments

[stephdairy.livejournal.com]

I let myself be amused rather than annoyed and let the problem sort itself out over time.

(S)

[armb.livejournal.com]

U-lock which you leave attached to the bike rack and not the bike.
(Though it only fixes the problem at one location.)

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

wear something without pockets?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Where would I put my keys?

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

down your bra or socks? tie them to your hair bobble? in your handbag? looped over a bike brake? clenched in your teeth? on a string round your neck? on one of those once-fashionable springy keyrings on your belt?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

In order: impossible, uncomfortable, impossible, impossible, a good way to lose them, another good way to lose them, annoying, annoying.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

The thing I'm currently having problems with is the one where I remember something I'm supposed to be doing only when I'm not in a position to do it.

[k425.livejournal.com]

How? Tincture of time. Best friend came and moved all my bedroom furniture two weeks ago. I will be walking to the wrong corner for my clothes for some time yet, I feel.