Thursday, July 31, 2008

Off to a Good Start

I have locked my keys in my car many, many times.  I have locked my keys in my running car a couple of times.  This morning, I found a new and exciting way to trap my keys that I hadn’t even considered.  As I shut the truck door with the hand that held my keys, they got caught on the closing mechanism and became trapped between the door and the body.  I couldn’t reach them, the door handle was rendered useless by their position and nothing I had handy was thin enough to fit in the gap to pry the keys out.  I spent several minutes trying to figure out who one calls when one has rendered the door useless, when it occured to me to try the inside handle.  I let myself in the passenger side with the spare key that I always have on hand these days (I have easily spent $400 on locksmiths in the last few years.  I’m a slow learner), crawled over to the interior handle and it popped right open.  I don’t take this as a good sign that the rest of my day is going to go smoothly.