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Old 24-November-2008, 04:30 PM
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Yep; I did a strange one too.
When I was married, I needed to pick up my wife's car for some reason. I went there and she was out for lunch. I ended up locking my keys in the car somewhere along the wait.
I called triple-A, and it took a while for them to get there, and some more for them to get in.
Afterward, I went back up to her office to swap keys. I reached in my pocket and pulled out my keys, along with the spare set that I had in my pocket to give her.
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I've never locked myself out of my car.


...that said, I lock myself out of my house all the time. Okay, so just twice. Fortunately our small kitchen window is always unlocked. Theft risk? I guess (I don't have anything much to steal anyway). I bet the neighbors love seeing me barely able to squeeze my round upper body through that thing though. It's quite a feat.
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There once was a BMW 3 series which had a broken trunk lock. The key and the remote could not unlock it. The gentleman was unhappy with being unable to use his trunk. So we (where I was working at the time) decided to open it from the inside. We removed the rear seat and found that there was a solid steel bulkhead in the way. I noted in the center a kind of 'punch out' spot for where a ski portal might go if it was equipped. We used a drill to take the spot welds out and knocked the portal out. It was exactly 9" x 13" square.

To this day I'll never get over the fact that my entire body fit through that hole.
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There once was a BMW 3 series which had a broken trunk lock. The key and the remote could not unlock it. The gentleman was unhappy with being unable to use his trunk. So we (where I was working at the time) decided to open it from the inside. We removed the rear seat and found that there was a solid steel bulkhead in the way. I noted in the center a kind of 'punch out' spot for where a ski portal might go if it was equipped. We used a drill to take the spot welds out and knocked the portal out. It was exactly 9" x 13" square.

To this day I'll never get over the fact that my entire body fit through that hole.
thanks for the nice story lotusexcelle I got amusement when someone told me that a cell phone can also do lock and unlock the "car lock". the car lock is dangerous particularly in the river flood, because if the car locked then how we can overcome the situation, tool box can't do anything. (if the big hammer is available then its ok) to break the glass of the car and one can come and rescue himself in a better way.

But was the tool box "unlocked" or locked !!, further information wanted now.
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I thought that was for males, not for females. If there is any gender-based difference, that is.
Pretty sure you are correct; that males on average score higher on visual/spatial skills.
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You know you might really like a girl when her father greets you at the door with a pre-bent coat-hanger because the last two times you dropped her off, you locked the keys in the car...
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You know you might really like a girl when her father greets you at the door with a pre-bent coat-hanger because the last two times you dropped her off, you locked the keys in the car...

About one person: the tool box remain on the car bonnet. to keep the tool box in the car the car keys were in the car itself, and then that fellow started running to his home later and reached with a lot of perspiration and took the second key of the car and again ran towards car and started to open the car lock, but what happened that second keys was his refredgerator's keys, later he beat on his head by his own palm.
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