Lemonade

David Ilvedson ilvey@sbcglobal.net
Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:58:58 -0700


That's "mine" even though I probably could use a mind also while I'm at
it...;-]

David

>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
>>>   >>





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