 January 8, 2011 - 6:00pm | Wife goes out to the car unlocks it and starts it, leaving her purse inside and somehow locks the door while she cleans the snow off. Why she didn't put the kids in first so they wouldn't be standing around in the cold, I dont know. Oh yeah those were the only set of keys. Give you three guess who's wrong and the first two don't count. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 8, 2011 - 7:10pm | You stupid @&&**@! Why don't you have more than one set of keys so I don't do dumb stuff like that! Gee honey, with the new chipped keys, they're $125 each to have made, so I try to be careful. Now you're cheap and inconsiderate! Why did I marry you??? --------------------------- Am I close? You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
 January 8, 2011 - 7:10pm | Pick up a skill in lock picking. Or was that... wife picking? I don't member now.   |
 January 8, 2011 - 8:08pm | have a Dralasite sneak a psuedopod through the crack in the door and hit the unlock button on the inside |
 January 8, 2011 - 9:42pm | Actually, it was always my dad who ended up locking his keys in his pickup, and my mom would have to take off work, drive 20 miles from Fort Valley to Robins, unlock the pickup with her spare set of pickup keys, and have my dad meet her at the guard shack to his building so she could give him his keys back. If he didn't lock his keys in the pickup when on base, it was almost always somewhere way the hell out in BFE where he locked them, like the time he and I were in downtown Macon, trying to find an obscure component for one of his electronic doodads. Guess who had to drive all the way from her work in Fort Valley, through Macon rush-hour traffic, risk the myriad hazards of the I-75/I-16 split(coming in is worse than going out), and plow through traffic on heavily-trafficked Spring Street, down the just as equally heavily-trafficked Riverside Drive to the shop where we were at on Seventh Street(in the old industrial section of town)? Naturally, Dad claimed it was my fault.... (Not to mention that my dad, who claimed to know Macon like the back of his hand, got us lost, before I finally told him to pull into the Waffle House on Riverside Drive and I would ask for directions. None of the patrons knew where to go, but the business was in the book, thank God) Nor is this a one-gender phenomenon. Some years after my dad died, my mom had just clocked in at work(Bibb Company/Dan River Products)and realized "oh, s*, I locked my keys in my car!" and called me just as I had gotten home from work(in particular, half of second shift and all of third shift at the old Waffle House in Byron, or from 5p to 7a that morning). Sooo, I end up making the 20-minute drive to the outskirts of Fort Valley(+5 mins for the damn train on the tracks across Highway 49, how I miss those short trains)literally in my sleep, in my work uniform, and stinking to high heaven of grease and cigarettes, just to unlock her door with my spare set of her car keys, cool my heels in the plant's outer office, and wait on the receptionist to call the drunkard plant superintendent, so he could get a hold of the supervisor for the sample room, so he could get a hold of the lead person for the sample room, so Marie can get my mom(who's way the hell on the other freakin' side of the plant getting a sample window treatment set off the novelty packing line), so I can hand her her keys. And, yes, Mom blamed me for getting herself locked out in the first place.... " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 8, 2011 - 9:55pm | You stupid @&&**@! Why don't you have more than one set of keys so I don't do dumb stuff like that! Gee honey, with the new chipped keys, they're $125 each to have made, so I try to be careful. Now you're cheap and inconsiderate! Why did I marry you??? --------------------------- Am I close? With two parents(and two older siblings) who were forgetful in that fashion, not to mention a myriad of exes and their parents who also like locking their keys in their vehicles while out the middle of BFE, I've accumulated quite the collection of spare car keys.... And, locksmiths in two states have accumulated quite the collection of my hard-earned cash.... " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
 January 9, 2011 - 3:33am | POP QUIZ: You get into your car and drop the keys while closing the door. There you are: locked inside your own vehicle, keys laying on the ground outside, with nothing but a but a baseball bat. How do you get out? (seriously, pop that one on your co-workers and see how many of them answer it wrong) |
January 9, 2011 - 5:37am | You stupid @&&**@! Why don't you have more than one set of keys so I don't do dumb stuff like that! Gee honey, with the new chipped keys, they're $125 each to have made, so I try to be careful. Now you're cheap and inconsiderate! Why did I marry you??? --------------------------- Am I close? With two parents(and two older siblings) who were forgetful in that fashion, not to mention a myriad of exes and their parents who also like locking their keys in their vehicles while out the middle of BFE, I've accumulated quite the collection of spare car keys.... And, locksmiths in two states have accumulated quite the collection of my hard-earned cash.... I've a friend who's wife has said, nearly verbatim, what I posted. When he told me, I thought he was kidding, and laughed my butt off. Then, I saw he was serious. =/ Granted, I felt bad for him, but, it was still funny. =) You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
January 9, 2011 - 9:57am | POP QUIZ: You get into your car and drop the keys while closing the door. There you are: locked inside your own vehicle, keys laying on the ground outside, with nothing but a but a baseball bat. How do you get out? (seriously, pop that one on your co-workers and see how many of them answer it wrong) Derr, a derr, gee George, if you're in your car, could you, um, like, unlock the door from the inside and get out?! " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 9, 2011 - 10:02am | You stupid @&&**@! Why don't you have more than one set of keys so I don't do dumb stuff like that! Gee honey, with the new chipped keys, they're $125 each to have made, so I try to be careful. Now you're cheap and inconsiderate! Why did I marry you??? --------------------------- Am I close? With two parents(and two older siblings) who were forgetful in that fashion, not to mention a myriad of exes and their parents who also like locking their keys in their vehicles while out the middle of BFE, I've accumulated quite the collection of spare car keys.... And, locksmiths in two states have accumulated quite the collection of my hard-earned cash.... I've a friend who's wife has said, nearly verbatim, what I posted. When he told me, I thought he was kidding, and laughed my butt off. Then, I saw he was serious. =/ Granted, I felt bad for him, but, it was still funny. =) It is funny. Thank all the holy gods that I don't have a newer-model vehicle(so no new-fangled keys), that I have spare keys hidden in the wheel well(in one of those hide-a-key thingies, and yes, my van's about as worth stealing as ex-Mets' pitcher Anthony Young's rookie card), and I don't have to answer any more late-night calls to drive to BFE to unlock other people's vehicles. Incidentally, those new chipped keys are pain in the rectum. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
 January 9, 2011 - 10:48am | My car came with 3 keys and they're all chipped. And then there was the spare plastic key (a 4th key) for openning the door just in case that slides into the wallet. Locking myself out of the car is an impossiblity for me as I wear one extra key around my neck. Sorry no matter what your Mrs. is wrong in this scenario on all counts. Just a regular key to unlock doors around your neck is all you need for this situation. BTW I drive a 2005 Toyota RAV4 In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
January 9, 2011 - 2:19pm | Those proximity fobs are a lock out waiting to happen, unless you actually happen to have mechanical key back ups with them. My folks once had a new car with fob only entry/starting. Within six months of buying said brand new car, dad's fob battery died. Calls mom, who drives all the way out with her fob: guess what? Her battery is dead too! Not a single keyhole on the car, no way to get in short of smashing a window, and even then no way starting it short of hot wiring (assuming it will still function as such minus a fob recognition). Off to the dealership they go, and then they're told that it will take 2-3 months to get a replacement battery. After much hemming and hawing, they were able to get a battery from the fob from one of the other new cars on the lot. They traded that car in for one with keyholes. Granted, it behooves someone to track down batteries before the fact. But it still begs the question: if said batteries last less than six months, how long will they last outside of the fob? Added to that, can you keep spare batteries on you at all times? After all, you can't keep them in the glove box --- if your fob batteries die, spares in the glove box are as useful as not having spares at all (since you can't get in without the fob). Let's not forget, I can cut a back up mechanical key for less than the cost of back up batteries, and I don't have to cut one every six months or less. Ain't technology grand? LOL |
January 9, 2011 - 10:28pm | What gets me in this is that she had the kids in dress shoes standing in the snow in the cold and didm't think putting them in the car was a priority. Because both could have openned the doors from inside. No she needed to scrape the ice and snow off the wind shield first and the fragging kids can just wait. But not giving any thought to the kids is nothing new. As for duplicate keys- yeah the cost more and the last set for a previous car ran me something in the neighborhood of $150. When we bought this car she insisted that her name was on it and afterward told me that since her name was on it I had to let the stepson drive, same stepson that had previously told me that when his mother gave him copies of the keys to my car that he was going to take it anytime he wanted. So I've been all kinds of not motivated to get extra keys made even with the stepson in the army and on an all expense paid vacation to Japan courtesy of Uncle Sam. Oh yeah I learned to not lose my keys years ago after looking for my keys for 20 minutes and ended up late for a date with a really hot chick that was probably out of my league. I always know where my keys are unless my wife has the car keys and I never give out my main key ring. sad truth is that the wife and I just dont see I to I and why should she bother working on the relationship, she got her green card and has reverted to treating her son like the Prince of All Creation, our children are baggage, and the husband like crap. oopps Mr Bitter just ranted sorry guys I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 January 10, 2011 - 10:10am | I've discovered my '06 car is smarter than I am. I left the keys in the ignition after turning off the engine (got distracted or something), turned to get out of the car and tried to hit the auto-lock button. It wouldn't lock! I tried again, and it still wouldn't lock. That's when I recognized that I didn't have the keys in my pocket, they were still hanging off the steering column. This is the car that came from the used-car dealer with one set of keys, that only worked in the ignition-- the door only responded to the remote buttons. I replaced that with a working key promptly. |
January 10, 2011 - 3:08pm | same stepson that had previously told me that when his mother gave him copies of the keys to my car that he was going to take it anytime he wanted. FWIW, even though both names are on the car, if the stepson's name is not on it and he uses it without permission --- it's still considered stealing. Check with your local laws to see how this is handled in your jurisdiction, but here you can report the car stolen and if caught the kid will end up in juvie and no impound fees accrued: the car goes to the adjacent juvie lot and you can pick one or the other or both up at your leisure. |
January 10, 2011 - 4:46pm | What gets me in this is that she had the kids in dress shoes standing in the snow in the cold and didm't think putting them in the car was a priority. Because both could have openned the doors from inside. No she needed to scrape the ice and snow off the wind shield first and the fragging kids can just wait. But not giving any thought to the kids is nothing new. As for duplicate keys- yeah the cost more and the last set for a previous car ran me something in the neighborhood of $150. When we bought this car she insisted that her name was on it and afterward told me that since her name was on it I had to let the stepson drive, same stepson that had previously told me that when his mother gave him copies of the keys to my car that he was going to take it anytime he wanted. So I've been all kinds of not motivated to get extra keys made even with the stepson in the army and on an all expense paid vacation to Japan courtesy of Uncle Sam. Oh yeah I learned to not lose my keys years ago after looking for my keys for 20 minutes and ended up late for a date with a really hot chick that was probably out of my league. I always know where my keys are unless my wife has the car keys and I never give out my main key ring. sad truth is that the wife and I just dont see I to I and why should she bother working on the relationship, she got her green card and has reverted to treating her son like the Prince of All Creation, our children are baggage, and the husband like crap. oopps Mr Bitter just ranted sorry guys Okay, now for the $64,000 question. Why were the kids even outside at all. Most people with kids start the car, jack up the heater, scrape off the ice and snow, and have their kids wait inside the house until the vehicle is warmed up. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 10, 2011 - 4:48pm | I've discovered my '06 car is smarter than I am. I left the keys in the ignition after turning off the engine (got distracted or something), turned to get out of the car and tried to hit the auto-lock button. It wouldn't lock! I tried again, and it still wouldn't lock. That's when I recognized that I didn't have the keys in my pocket, they were still hanging off the steering column. This is the car that came from the used-car dealer with one set of keys, that only worked in the ignition-- the door only responded to the remote buttons. I replaced that with a working key promptly. Absolutely. I also have zero use for cars with no keyholes in the doors. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 10, 2011 - 4:58pm | same stepson that had previously told me that when his mother gave him copies of the keys to my car that he was going to take it anytime he wanted. FWIW, even though both names are on the car, if the stepson's name is not on it and he uses it without permission --- it's still considered stealing. Check with your local laws to see how this is handled in your jurisdiction, but here you can report the car stolen and if caught the kid will end up in juvie and no impound fees accrued: the car goes to the adjacent juvie lot and you can pick one or the other or both up at your leisure. Also, if the insurance is in your name, you don't have to list him as an authorized driver for your vehicle, even if he does live with you and is of age. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
 January 10, 2011 - 5:29pm | 1) The wife? (Doesn't count.) 2) The kids? (Don't count) 3) The husband is always wrong! Why the hell don't you have another set of keys???  View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
January 10, 2011 - 7:49pm | As my dad would have said, "It's time for some wall-to-wall counseling." You reap what you sow. If a child tried to lord over me, the child would learn his place, with a quickness. If you think you're ready, froggie.....jump. People in this day and age have forgotten what a good ass-whipping can do to screw your head on straight. You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
January 11, 2011 - 6:22pm | But, but, but, that's ch-ch-child abuse. Even if he's an adult now. You beat him, and we'll sic Child and Adult Protective Services on you, honest Ifshnit. In a related vein, boys and drals, read this: a link from my former hometown paper which makes me wonder what, in the name of God, is this world coming to.... " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 11, 2011 - 7:18pm | Feh, spare the rod, spoil the child. They want to get Child Services on you, let them. Living in the shelters will make them BEG to come home. I used to do computer services in a CS shelter, it was not a happy place to be. You can't argue with the invincibly ignorant. - William F. Buckley |
January 11, 2011 - 9:39pm | Parents who are too busy being everything else but parents does contribute alot to the problem. I see a lot of kids in the Phoenix-metroplex that are causing way too much trouble because they have almost no supervision outside of school. The parents are way to busy playing video games, having cell phone or relationship drama, intoxicated, or having to work too many jobs to be present for the parenting. |
January 12, 2011 - 3:05pm | That one made it all the way down to our papers...I have no problem with guns, but letting a ten year old keep a few in his room?! |
January 12, 2011 - 4:28pm | Feh, spare the rod, spoil the child. They want to get Child Services on you, let them. Living in the shelters will make them BEG to come home. I used to do computer services in a CS shelter, it was not a happy place to be. Agreed. Droid, agreed, on all counts. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 12, 2011 - 4:33pm | Parents who are too busy being everything else but parents does contribute alot to the problem. I see a lot of kids in the Phoenix-metroplex that are causing way too much trouble because they have almost no supervision outside of school. The parents are way to busy playing video games, having cell phone or relationship drama, intoxicated, or having to work too many jobs to be present for the parenting. I can understand the having too many jobs; it beats the crap out sittting on one's rear end waiting for my tax money to come to them every month. The other reasons are just plain inexcusable. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 12, 2011 - 4:39pm | That one made it all the way down to our papers...I have no problem with guns, but letting a ten year old keep a few in his room?! Yeah, that had me asking "WTF?!" as well. As in WTF went through granpa's pointed head, when he decided to give his ten-year old grandson guns for Xmas, especially given his documented history of violence against others. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 12, 2011 - 4:57pm | AND they let him keep his LOADED guns in his bedroom? That's the bit that bothers me. |
January 12, 2011 - 5:02pm | That's the bit that should bother anyone. Except, maybe the radicalized nutcases purporting to represent the whole of the gun lobby. " 'Beware the Beast, Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death." |
January 12, 2011 - 11:19pm | Well I wrote a short novel here with my social commentary but I realized that it was starting to digress too much from the theme of this site and community. |
January 13, 2011 - 3:21pm | As a card carrying member of the NRA, I can assure you there is nothing in their literature (which, pertaining to kids and guns, can fill chapters if not books) that says it's okay for a kid to keep guns in his/her room. In short, they advocate safety devices like trigger guards, bore locks (a cable lock that goes through the open chamber and barrel), locked cases, and safes for the "family environment"...with no keys/combinations issued to the children. Simple fact is most (if not all) states have minimum age requirements to purchase firearms and ammunition (typically 18 or 21). It's that age that the NRA says is okay for a kid to "keep a gun in his/her room"...meaning when the kid comes of age. |
