# Tip of the Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 15, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383 "2002-10-15T19:58:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/1 "2002-10-15T19:58:54Z")

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Ex-Lax and sleeping pills are a fairly messy combination.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/2 "2002-10-16T00:21:52Z")

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True.

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**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/3 "2002-10-16T04:23:37Z")

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eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww

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**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/4 "2002-10-16T04:28:52Z")

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**Lieu** , No! NO! Bad! Why didn’t anybody smack you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper!! Bad **lieu**!! 🙂

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**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/5 "2002-10-16T04:30:27Z")

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umm. . .okay. . .AOL smiley=SD smiley is not true. . .sorry. . .I’ll sit over here in the corner and think about what I did

🙂 See? I’m not completely retarded.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tip-of-the-day/132383/6 "2002-10-16T13:28:06Z")

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Dang, this is the only message board I know of that has so much trouble maintaining posts. Sometimes the OP gets sucked into the void, sometimes a post gets put in 3 times. I thought smart people were supposed to run this thing.

Anyway, what I originally said was that this thread is for purposes of warning folks out there against making costly mistakes due to oversights.

In my case, I couldn’t start my truck the other day. Got a jump, got the starter tapped, and my lights, dash and radio all worked with no problem. Finally had to get it towed to a garage for them to look at.

Turns out I had pulled out the security key with my foot the last time I got out of the truck. So, if you’ve bought any new vehicle within the past several years, remember that it has a security key you can take out to prevent theft. If it’s like mine, it’s located under the dash above the accelerator pedal. Apparently I had lifted my foot too high and it pulled the key out enough to make the vehicle inoperable. Cost me $105 to discover that.