Security / Obscurity

In my ongoing quest to add more easter eggs to my physical environment, I have a new planter set up outside my house.

You may think: Matt, what a weird rock collection you have there!

And if you look closely and choose a rock, you see. Oh. It’s fake. It’s one of those key-hider rocks, meant to blend in with your landscaping, and keep a house key available for emergencies.

But which rock holds the key? Well…

I bought…. every kind of key hiding rock I could find on Amazon. (A few duplicates, yes, but they all had different brand names and different sellers.)

And I also bought a collection of house keys. You can buy old keys by the pound.

So: every one of these rocks is holding a key.

None of them are the keys to my house.

My wife, who is supportive of my many quirks, does not get this. She doesn’t object, she just would like the record to show that she does not understand why this is delightful to me.

I still think it’s great.