# Fucking keys are locked in my god damned car! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706 "2007-01-12T15:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/1 "2007-01-12T15:21:05Z")
And I’m a fucking idiot to boot. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/2 "2007-01-12T15:22:24Z")
Bloody annoying for you. Spare set? Got a coat hanger? Roadside recovery service? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/3 "2007-01-12T15:24:11Z")
Well, at least the Google ads are trying to be helpful. I did that a couple of times, in my younger days. Then I wised up and started carrying a spare key in my wallet, which of course I’ve never needed to use. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/4 "2007-01-12T15:29:33Z")
I’m sure it will come as some consolation when I say that it is physically impossible to do this with my car. No? Didn’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/5 "2007-01-12T15:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’m sure it will come as some consolation when I say that it is physically impossible to do this with my car. No? Didn’t think so. [/QUOTE] It is impossible to lock your keys in your car? Do you have keypad entry? Or is it impossible to lock your car at all? If you can lock your car, how does it know whether the keys are inside? ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/6 "2007-01-12T15:35:00Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] Bloody annoying for you. Spare set? Got a coat hanger? Roadside recovery service? [/QUOTE] Eh, called Pop-A-Lock. 50 bucks down the drain, if they can find me. The Univeristy campus I work for is a construction zone on top of a retired military base. Pizza guys get lost on a regular basis and our parking lot is in gang territory. (I _wish_ I was joking.) The weather is bad too. Below zero (F) icy and snowy. This doesn’t help the I-hate-my-job-turning-30-next-month-damn-antidepresents blues. :mad: Since this is the Pit: Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/7 "2007-01-12T15:37:38Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] It is impossible to lock your keys in your car? Do you have keypad entry? Or is it impossible to lock your car at all? If you can lock your car, how does it know whether the keys are inside? [/QUOTE] You can only lock the car with the key, and it won’t lock unless all the doors are shut. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/8 "2007-01-12T15:38:33Z")
Well, I hope that Pop-a-Lock crew (cool name for a business!) move their arses and get down there t’ help you out pronto, **Mouse\_Maven**. Just turnin’ 30, huh? Sorry things are a tad shitty for you. Make plans now for surviving the turnin’-40 blues. They’re a doozy, I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/9 "2007-01-12T15:40:49Z")
My membership in AAA has paid for itself many times over because of just this sort of thing. I feel for you. If it helps, I once locked my keys in the car…at a self-serve carwash…with the motor running! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/10 "2007-01-12T15:42:05Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I’m sure it will come as some consolation when I say that it is physically impossible to do this with my car. [/QUOTE] It’s impossible for me to lock the keys in _if_ they’re in the ignition. It is however, perfectly possible for me to toss the keys on the passenger seat while I need both hands to get something out of the glove box. The only time I’ve needed the spare key in _my_ wallet. **Mouse\_Maven** , join AAA. It’s about $50 a year - which I get my money’s worth just from maps - and they would open it for you for free, plus the other benefits. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/11 "2007-01-12T15:42:34Z")
During one of the worst days of my life, I locked myself out of my car _twice_, once at school and then again at the mall. I called the same company both times because they were very close, but thankfully the same guy didn’t show up twice. That’s the kind of stupidity you have to earn. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/12 "2007-01-12T15:43:21Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] Well, I hope that Pop-a-Lock crew (cool name for a business!) move their arses and get down there t’ help you out pronto, **Mouse\_Maven**. Just turnin’ 30, huh? Sorry things are a tad shitty for you. Make plans now for surviving the turnin’-40 blues. They’re a doozy, I tell ya. [/QUOTE] I just read your location. 🙂 Yep, we sepo’s have some interesting business name: Pop-A-Lock, Roto-Rooter, Piggly-Wiggly, Wal-Mart of Borg. As for things being shitty, I’m just whiny. Mouse\_Spouse is pissed because this happened a couple of months ago and no one is in the lab yet, so I’m venting. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/13 "2007-01-12T15:44:19Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] You can only lock the car with the key, and it won’t lock unless all the doors are shut. [/QUOTE] Ahh. Got it. What kind of car is it? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/14 "2007-01-12T15:45:35Z")
Citroen Xsara Picasso - a giant egg on wheels. I’m changing it soon. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/15 "2007-01-12T15:46:31Z")
Well, I’m glad things aren’t all doom-an’-gloom then, mate. 🙂 Still a piss-off having to sort out keys in the car, though. Righteous rant indeed. Particularly in cold weather! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/16 "2007-01-12T15:46:34Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Then I wised up and started carrying a spare key in my wallet, which of course I’ve never needed to use. My dad is just like you–except for the never needing to use it part. At some point last year, he took his car in to be worked on, and handed over the spare key from his wallet, rather than the keychain with the house key, etc. So far so good. Sees key that used to be in wallet from time to time, keeps thinking “I ought to put that back in my wallet”. Does otherstuff. And then one day, the following events take place. My mother and I had been out of town, and she used her cell phone to call him to let him know that we were twenty minutes from home. He didn’t answer, so she then called his cell phone. Either he answered then, or he called back five minutes later (having arrived in a parking space in the meantime). They talked briefly, hang up. Phone rings again–Dad, again? Yep, while sitting in his car talking to Mom, Dad had taken his car keys out of the ignition and dropped them on the seat next to him. He then hung up, got out of the car, pushed the door lock, shut the door, and looked in the window and saw his keys. Checked his wallet for the spare–knowing full well it wasn’t there-- and picked the cell phone back up to call Mom to ask her to come rescue him. I turn onto a side street, while Mom checks her purse. (Our route had just taken us by Dad and his car–in fact we’d joked about stopping in the parking lot to see if he was there before she called him). Nope, no key to Dad’s car there. I return to the main road and drive the rest of the way home. Mom gets key to Dad’s car and key to her car and drives off to rescue him. I stay home and unload my car–just beating the rainstorm, which catches my parents. Dad puts his spare key back into his wallet as soon as he gets home. I carry a spare key in my wallet, too. I’ve only needed it once. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/17 "2007-01-12T15:49:12Z")
If you really want to screw up, make sure the engine is running, _then_ lock the doors. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/18 "2007-01-12T15:50:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Citroen Xsara Picasso - a giant egg on wheels. I’m changing it soon. [/QUOTE] I googled it and found the website. What the heck does this mean? > [@](#): > > The Xsara Picasso rides and handles like a saloon, accommodates people like a multi purpose vehicle and swallows luggage like an estate. Specifically, the ‘saloon’ part? ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/19 "2007-01-12T15:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] **Mouse\_Maven** , join AAA. It’s about $50 a year - which I get my money’s worth just from maps - and they would open it for you for free, plus the other benefits. [/QUOTE] My husband and I discussed this a time or two. Tonight I’ll talk to him. “Honey, you married a moron. Let’s join AAA.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706/20 "2007-01-12T16:00:07Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] What the heck does this mean?..Specifically, the ‘saloon’ part? [/QUOTE] UK terminology: ‘Estate’ cars are something like station wagons (except smaller, but that’s generally true of most vehicles anyway) ‘Hatchback’ are more or less normal-shaped cars where the rear end opens all as one, including the rear window ‘Saloon’ cars are normal cars with a smaller opening into the boot(trunk) that opens independently of the window. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-keys-are-locked-in-my-god-damned-car/387706.md?page=2)