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It would be so cool if this was just a case of someone regularly mistaking your aunt’s car for their own. “Huh, my key’s not working, oh well, I know a trick to

It would be so cool if this was just a case of someone regularly mistaking your aunt’s car for their own. “Huh, my key’s not working, oh well, I know a trick to get ‘er started”

mhh__ 4y ago
Some old cars can basically be opened with a spoon so it could even be that the key did work
- cheese_van 4y ago
  Happened to me. The key for one car worked on another car of the same model. Nice elderly lady at work asks us to take out her car at lunch to diagnose a noise. We found her '73 Buick Skylark in the multi-story car-park and went to lunch. Ran great. Afterwards I asked, "I thought you were Baptist? Why did you have a St Chris statue on the dash?" Of course she didn't. We had found the "wrong" car on a lower deck of the car-park but when we got back from lunch parked it on the uppermost deck, unaware it belonged to someone else. When we discovered our error, we imagined what the owner might go through when the car was discovered missing but we kept our mouths shut, fearing some sort of liability. I bought that old lady's Skylark. Ran like a dang tank.
freemanofthewan 4y ago
Plot twist: Someone posts in this thread how THEIR uncle who worked nights' car was "borrowed" regularly through the daytime and always returned empty. (waiting for that free fill-up of course)
- xattt 4y ago
  This scenario is neatly summarized in the children’s book, This Moose Belongs to Me. (1) https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&tn=THis%20moose%20belongs%20to%20me https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=S...
  - yarg 4y ago
    Douglas Adams' biscuit story: http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sTUFF/Entries/2007/11/27_cookies.html http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sT....
    - rkuykendall-com 4y ago
      Bluey - Turtleboy https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Turtleboy https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Turtleboy
macNchz 4y ago
Certain 80s/90s Toyotas had something funny about their keys, where they were widely interchangeable between different cars. A friend of mine tells a story about how there were a few students at his high school with identical looking blue Camrys, which caused major confusion when they learned–by getting in the wrong car and driving home–that their keys worked in each other's cars.
treeman79 4y ago
My 90s Toyota truck got moved from one side of the street to the other one day. Turned out friends dad noticed it was street sweeping day so moved it for me. His Toyota keys from a different year / model truck fit it just fine.
grecy 4y ago
Even easier, someone has the same car and their keys just work. When I was learning to drive in a 1990 Ford I locked the keys in. Dad just asked a random person in the parking lot with the same car to borrow their keys. It opened the door and started the engine no problem.

It would be so cool if this was just a case of someone regularly mistaking your aunt’s car for their own. “Huh, my key’s not working, oh well, I know a trick to get ‘er started”

mhh__ 4y ago

Some old cars can basically be opened with a spoon so it could even be that the key did work

cheese_van 4y ago
Happened to me. The key for one car worked on another car of the same model. Nice elderly lady at work asks us to take out her car at lunch to diagnose a noise. We found her '73 Buick Skylark in the multi-story car-park and went to lunch. Ran great. Afterwards I asked, "I thought you were Baptist? Why did you have a St Chris statue on the dash?" Of course she didn't. We had found the "wrong" car on a lower deck of the car-park but when we got back from lunch parked it on the uppermost deck, unaware it belonged to someone else. When we discovered our error, we imagined what the owner might go through when the car was discovered missing but we kept our mouths shut, fearing some sort of liability. I bought that old lady's Skylark. Ran like a dang tank.

freemanofthewan 4y ago

Plot twist: Someone posts in this thread how THEIR uncle who worked nights' car was "borrowed" regularly through the daytime and always returned empty. (waiting for that free fill-up of course)

xattt 4y ago
This scenario is neatly summarized in the children’s book, This Moose Belongs to Me. (1) https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&tn=THis%20moose%20belongs%20to%20me https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=S...
- yarg 4y ago
  Douglas Adams' biscuit story: http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sTUFF/Entries/2007/11/27_cookies.html http://www.math.toronto.edu/beni/bERNARDO_nOT_fOUND/fUNNY_sT....
  - rkuykendall-com 4y ago
    Bluey - Turtleboy https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Turtleboy https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Turtleboy

macNchz 4y ago

Certain 80s/90s Toyotas had something funny about their keys, where they were widely interchangeable between different cars. A friend of mine tells a story about how there were a few students at his high school with identical looking blue Camrys, which caused major confusion when they learned–by getting in the wrong car and driving home–that their keys worked in each other's cars.

treeman79 4y ago

My 90s Toyota truck got moved from one side of the street to the other one day. Turned out friends dad noticed it was street sweeping day so moved it for me. His Toyota keys from a different year / model truck fit it just fine.

grecy 4y ago

Even easier, someone has the same car and their keys just work. When I was learning to drive in a 1990 Ford I locked the keys in. Dad just asked a random person in the parking lot with the same car to borrow their keys. It opened the door and started the engine no problem.