Lemonade

[David Ilvedson]

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.

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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
>>   >>