THE VANISHED KEYS

Stephanie said she was going to a family dinner, borrowed her boyfriend's car, and came home a day later with no keys, no car, and a story about strangers from a nightclub.

"I am 33," the poster wrote in a post that began with a simple living arrangement and ended with a full breakup. He owned a downtown Vancouver condo outright, having bought it with an inheritance at 24. Stephanie, 28, had lived there rent-free for almost two years, "Probably closer to 20 months," he later clarified, and he said he covered pretty much everything else because he made much more.

Then came the Saturday that blew it up.

About a month ago, Stephanie said she was heading to her parents' place for a family dinner about an hour away. The poster said he had been to family dinner with her 30 to 40 times over the course of their three-year relationship, but this time he was not invited. She explained that the family was having a meeting about her grandmother, who was showing signs of dementia, and said her brother and an aunt from out of town would be there. She borrowed his car and left.

That night, she texted around 10 p.m. that she had "a few glasses of wine with my mom" and would stay over. By the next morning, she still wasn't home and wasn't answering calls or texts. The poster called her mother.

"There was no family dinner......."

According to the mother, Stephanie wasn't there at all.

Around noon, Stephanie finally buzzed herself into the building. She had lost her keys, the building FOB, the apartment key, and the car key, and she didn't even know where the car was. The explanation that followed was not about dinner, family, or dementia. It was clubbing.

The poster said Stephanie had gone out with a friend, met three guys, and gone home with them. She was drunk, and one of the three men ended up driving the poster's car. When they arrived at one of the guys' places, the car was left in a no-parking area, later towed, and eventually found at a bus stop in downtown Vancouver.

Stephanie insisted she had done nothing wrong because she hadn't parked the car herself. She said she did not have sex with any of the guys, only her friend did, and claimed she was only there to make sure her friend was safe. She also said she had no choice but to lie because the poster doesn't like going to clubs.

He asked the internet, "Was I wrong for evicting her?" His answer in later edits was blunt: "YES she was also dumped, not just evicted."

The fallout kept going. The FOB was deactivated, the apartment lock was replaced for free by the building, and the car was recovered through police and the towing company. He later said, "Yes I got the car back obviously." Stephanie paid for the tow, he paid the parking ticket, and she agreed to pay for the car rekeying. "That is why it has not been done yet, as it is very expensive," he wrote.

By the end, she was out of the condo, out of the relationship, and still on the hook for the car. "I have 3 FOBs now instead of 4," he added.