Lemonade

[Carl Meyer]

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
>   >>