For many years I've made several extra keys for the new (new to me, I'd never buy a new car.) Then I hide one where I can get at it from the outside of the car. It can be tied somewhere under the car with heavy cord. Just don't forget where it is. I now tape them under one of the hub caps. I won't say which one. Burglars don't have time to pry off all four to see if they can find the key. I don't often lock my keys in the car, but my wife does it regularly. So when she calls home to say " I locked the keys in the car" I say "find a willing grunt to pry off the hub cap". That saves me a trip. Then she's paranoid that the grunt knows where we keep the key. Big deal. I just put it back under a different wheel. We lose some keys, but we've never lost a car. Be prepared! Carl Meyer Assoc. PTG Santa Clara, California cmpiano@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bdshull@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Lemonade > Mark, > > If it makes your day even brighter, a few months ago I pulled the > keys-locked-in-car thing, and had no wire with me. So I called campus > safety, and they succeeded in fully separating the door linkage with their > gizmo. Then my assistant showed up and we got in with some piano wire. > > Had to take the door apart to re-connect the linkage. No biggie, campus > safety had succeeded in popping off the locking device for the linkage, but > nothing actually broke. But what a nuisance. Moral of the story: don't > lock your k..... No, can't fix that one. More like, things could be worse, > and don't let campus safety help you tempt fate? > > Bill Shull, RPT > La Sierra University, CSUSB (no longer Univ of Redlands!) > > In a message dated 9/5/01 2:04:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > mstory@mail.ewu.edu writes: > > << Yesterday was one of those days. Equipment problems, string breakage, > ad-nauseum. I did manage to salvage one thing, though. After I had locked > the keys in the truck, when leaving, I used a length of the broken string to > break back into the truck. "When life gives you lemons ..." > > > Mark Story. RPT > Eastern Washington University > Cheney, Washington > >>
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