The same keys
Over ten years ago, I went on a cruise in Russia from Moscow to St. Petersburg on a riverboat. There were a couple of hundred passengers, the majority of them retired older ladies. They were buying lots of gifts and locking them in their cabins. When we boarded the purser had said that we could trust the workers on the ship; they wouldn't risk losing their jobs over a problem.
Anyway, about a week into the trip, I got sick. I attended a lecture in the morning with my mother and then returned to my cabin to sleep. I didn't leave again till the afternoon. And that is when we discovered that I had my parent's key, and they had mine. And they worked! So everyone on the ship had the same key to their cabin. They just didn't know it, and we left it that way. It would have ruined their trip to know that their rooms weren't really locked!
So now we all know and can deal with it as we please. My DH will probably want to have unique keys. We'll check with a locksmith.
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