# Auto Follies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-follies/117021>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-follies/117021 "2002-07-02T13:55:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-follies/117021/1 "2002-07-02T13:55:13Z")

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As I type, I am in my office, waiting for Pop-a-Lock to arrive to unlock my truck for me. I have not only locked the keys in, but they’re in the ignition, with the engine running. In the pouring rain, of course. This happens to me from time to time: when it rains, I leave the keys in the ignition while I gather up my stuff, then open the door and make a run for it. Usually, it’s at home, so when I reflexively lock the door as I shut it, keys in the ignition and all, there’s someone inside who has another key to unlock the door and fix the mistake. Not so at work, though.

:smack:

On top of this (or this on top of) yesterday, on my ride into work, about 4 or 5 miles from home, I notice a guy in a white truck pull up beside me, and point to the left rear of my truck. Not sure what he’s trying to communicate, I take up the space in front of me, to let him in behind. He stays in his lane, though. A few minutes later in the crawling traffic, he does it again, and I get paranoid: maybe its my tire…I haven’t checked them in a while, and I have been on some rough roads lately. Sure enough, I begin to feel a slight list in the handling as I panic mildly, looking for a place to pull over that’s not a mud pit from the rain the night before. I find a wide shoulder, and work my way over to it, all the while feeling the tire sink. I hop out, and turn quickly to my left to inspect the tire. Before I even get to the wheel well, I realize why the man in the white truck was pointing where he did: my lunch, in a brown paper bag, was still sitting on the edge of the tonneau cover against the cab where I had put it while I put other stuff in my truck before I left…

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-follies/117021/2 "2002-07-02T19:15:54Z")

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visulize this: A “Hide-a-Key” 😃

oh, sorry! I didn’t look at your username first! 😉

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It’s okay, you can kill 'em! This is Texas!

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auto-follies/117021/3 "2002-07-03T17:57:09Z")

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I keep an extra key in my wallet. I used to lock the hide-a-key in the car after using it.