CSAA has a plastic credit card key you can order if you're a member...the key is pressed out of the card when in need. I still haven't gone in to get mind yet... David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/5/01 at 4:15 PM Carl Meyer wrote: >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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