A New Friend

I made a new friend this last summer and it comes with a great story! Well, an expensive story! Our car is acting weird…it locks you out with the key still in it. AND we lost the spare. The logical conclusions are: 1: get it fixed 2: don’t ever leave the key in the car 3: get a spare key. BUT, not one time, but TWICE did I leave the key, in a rush, in the car. At which point, the car decides to do what the car is going to do and lock me out. Once with the car running! As a result, I had to spend half the day getting to town and finding the (extorting) locksmith. He said that I must have “accidentally pressed the lock on my way out the car.” I obviously don’t like my integrity questioned but alas, here we are, TWICE. The second time this happened, I had made the decision to just get a spare key made…which is the cost of having him come out 3 times. Trust when I say neither option (locksmith, spare key, finding summer-time to fix it at the shop) was cheap…which is why we just tried really hard to not ever leave the key in the car.

Getting the spare key ALSO involved half a day and a fist-full of cash. The only ONLY highlight of that trip was meeting the locksmith’s daughter. (Sounds like a book title. Is it?) She was such a joy and crazy smart and had a lot of questions…which I enjoyed answering for once, mainly because they were quite different questions from the norm. I was even able to share some Good news with her. Please remember her with me! Every time you get in your car or lose your keys!

Note: We’ve since taken the car in to get it fixed.

The mechanic’s reply, “Yeah, these cars do that sometimes.”

Patrice hopefully, “So did you fix it?”

Mechanic deadpan, “No.”