<VV> SAVE YOUR OLD KEYS !! slightly off topic

[J R Read_HML]

I had a buddy who traveled, used lots of rental cars and always parked in 
malls (for his job).  He was there until closing and the exit would often be 
other than the one where he entered.  He took to always ordering a red car. 
That helped but did not fully solve the problem.  So, he started tying a 
balloon to the antenna in order to help him locate his red rental at the end 
of the day.  This was, of course, in the days before the profusion of 
retractable antennae.  I've not seen him in at least 20 years.  Hopefully, 
he is happily retired and no longer has that problem.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Sethracer at aol.com>
To: <ddpleau at msn.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> SAVE YOUR OLD KEYS !!


>
> In a message dated 1/12/2008 6:55:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> ddpleau at msn.com writes:
>
> In 1987,  my boss and I were sent to Albuquerque to help start up a
> semiconductor  factory.  We found Hertz T-birds were the best car we could 
> rent under
> our expense accounts, so we were both driving them.  One morning he left 
> the
> hotel to go to work and got in the wrong T-bird and the keys worked.   He 
> was
> pulled over in the afternoon for driving a stolen car.  After a  lot of
> talking, the cops drove him back to the hotel and he found his rental  and 
> it was
> unlocked and started with the same keys as the one he was arrested  for
> stealing.  They let him off the hook.
>
>
>
>
> It hurts if you are driving a common car as well. I was leaving Orchard
> Supply one Sunday afternoon, some years ago. I walked out to my "pewter" 
> colored
> Taurus SHO. I walked up and punched my Unlock button - No go. Then I 
> wondered
> how a car seat got in the passengers seat. I was parked three spaces 
> further
> down - Worse, across the space another Pewter SHO was parked there.  Three
> identical cars within 60 feet. (Yeah, okay - it was a Taurus) Then 
> yesterday, I
> exited Fry's in Sunnyvale and walked up to my Pewter colored  Avalanche.
> Again the locks didn't pop and no light flash. I was parked a few  more 
> spaces
> down. This one was really identical Z71 off road decals and all. Man  - I 
> am
> getting old. Thank goodness I never checked to see if the key would fit, 
> but I
> was about to! - At least with Corvairs, this could only happen at the 
> National
> Convention! It would be interesting to take a well worn Corvair  key and 
> walk
> down the line-up see how many ignition switches it would operate  (same 
> year,
> etc.) - Seth
>
>
>
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