Pick a lock

So I lost my mailbox key. Well, my roommate did. And he/we didn't want to spend $35 to get it drilled out and replaced. That's when I decided to pick up lock-picking as a hobby. http://www.wikihow.com/Pick-a-Lock is a great guide and it actually worked for me! Not on the mailbox though, but I can now pick one of my golden locks 10 times in 20 minutes, no kidding. And just with a pen-cap-clip and a straighted out zebra-pin.