I’ve managed to lock my car keys inside the car enough times to know how frustrating it is. Fortunately, with more modern cars, it seems to be less likely to happen.
Locked Car Door
A woman was at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left her work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication. She got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys in the car.
She didn’t know what to do, so she called home and told the baby sitter what had happened. The baby-sitter told her that the fever was getting worse. She said, “You might find a coat hanger and use that to open the door.”
The woman looked around and found an old rusty coat hanger that had been thrown down on the ground, possibly by someone else who at some time or other had locked their keys in their car. Then she looked at the hanger and said, “I don’t know how to use this.”
So she bowed her head and asked God to send her some help. Within five minutes an old rusty car pulled up, with a dirty, greasy, bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag on his head. The woman thought, “This is what you sent to help me?” But, she was desperate, so she was also very thankful.
The man got out of his car and asked her if he could help. She said, “Yes, my daughter is very sick. I stopped to get her some medication and I locked my keys in my car. I must get home to her. Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my car?”
He said, “Sure”. He walked over to the car, and in less than a minute the car was opened. She hugged the man and through her tears she said, “Thank You So Much! You are a very nice man.”
The man replied, “Lady, I am not a nice man. I just got out of prison today. I was in prison for car theft and have only been out for about an hour.”
The woman hugged the man again and with sobbing tears cried out loud, “Oh, Thank you God! You even sent me a Professional!”
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When I was working at Reading Prison a few years ago both FR Jim the RC chaplain and I both forgot our utility keys to get to the safe, communion wine, vessels etc the same day. We gatched a bit of a wheeze. He sent someone back to the centre for the real key, and I appealed to the congregation to, er, improvise. The member of the congregation got into the safe and two masses set up before the other was back with a PO2.
Probably an official secret, that nugget of information…
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It sounds as though you had an army of professionals to call upon that particular day. I imagine they thoroughly enjoyed the experience too.
I won’t tell anyone your secret if you don’t.
I had a similar experience in Leeds some years back. Locked out of my car, I knew that a coat hanger would help but did not know how. After struggling for 10 minutes or so two young lads who had been watching as they sat on a wall came offer and offered to show me, they were in in 30 seconds!
Wisdom is accumulated in a variety of places!
A warm welcome to the blog Mark.
It does make you realize just how vulnerable your car can be, when something like that happens. I think things are better with modern cars, but anything more than a few years old is probably quite easy pickings.
If those two young lads were anything like some of the lads I’ve known, they would have probably enjoyed showing you how easy it is too.
I like that one!
Glad you enjoyed it Sam.