Generally Embarrassed

My husband and I asked and received a fire safe for Christmas this year.  My husband has his own business and I thought it would be a good idea to keep his business papers in there, plus any other important papers that we might have.  It is not often that it happens, but people do lose their homes to fires (my dad and his wife lost mostly everything about 12 years ago) and it is better to err on the side of caution rather than try to gather all of those important papers again.

Enter said fire safe, which until today has been sitting in its box in our family room since Christmas:

Who wants to guess what happened?  Yep, you guessed it.... I stuck all of the parts that came with the safe, INSIDE THE SAFE...(a thing that attaches to the safe to operate the combination lock, some batteries and a couple other things that my husband handed me [presumably a key which I'm guessing was inside some little box]).  Anyway, I just closed the door on the safe meaning to come back to it later.  Well, I went to grab the little turny handle and it turned and locked EVERYTHING inside the safe!  I have no way to get to it.  Well, I had thrown the pack of papers that came with it on the desk.  For $10 you can get another key, but here is what you are required to give in order to get the key:  the form, copy of valid driver's license, copy of the receipt showing original purchase, sign the form, get the signature notarized.  (I understand that they have to be cautious about not just giving out keys willy-nilly to non law-abiding citizens)

Who would have thought that the darn thing would lock up quite so easily?  Not me.  Of course, we don't have that receipt showing our original purchase.  Granted, my dad bought it for us but I don't know that he would have the receipt either.  We do still have the big box in the garage...  I sent an e-mail off to the company today and I'm sure I will have a response tomorrow.  Luckily we hadn't actually put any papers inside!

ETA:  I did hear back from the company today and we do not have to supply the receipt...just all of the other requirements.  I am thankful for small things!