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One of the services we offer is lock-outs for people who’ve left their car keys in their ignition/trunk. It’s fairly simple to open a locked car, they make a commercially-available tool kit for popping locks that has about 8 or 9 different bars, slim jims and wedges to finagle open a locked door. They all fit inside a black canvas bag like camping gear, so you can just keep it behind your seat and yank it out in a hurry .
Well, as luck would have it, the other day I had one final call for the day, an unlock of a Jeep Cherokee at a hotel parking lot. I get there and see the guy in the back corner of the lot. I get out my tools, pop the locks open, do the paperwork, and spend a minute or two shootin’ the breeze since unlock customers are almost without exception happy and chatty so they’re always fun.
When I finish up, I go back to the shop and start cleaning out my truck as my shift was up, and, uh oh, I can’t find the unlock kit. I realize I probably left it back at the hotel, I was so wrapped up making small talk I just didn’t pick it up off the ground when I was done, what with juggling my paperwork, clipboard, his credit card, etc etc etc.
So I drive back to the lot, and no luck, the bag isn’t there, maybe the guy I did the unlock for turned it in to the front desk? I’m assuming he was staying there. I talk to the desk clerk, and fortunately, I still remember the guy’s name. Yes, he’s a guest, but he didn’t turn anything in to her, but she can give me his cell phone number. I call him up, and yes, he does have the kit, just as I suspected, I left it on the ground. He put it in his Jeep for safekeeping and was going to bring it by the shop tomorrow morning. I won’t be in, so I offer to meet him somewhere and pick it up. He gives me directions to the factory he’s working at that night and tells me where visitor parking is, says he’ll meet me there in like 20 minutes.
So, with a sense of relief, I drive over to the next town and pull into the gates of his jobsite, and I immediately see him standing next to the Jeep, with a flashlight…. And a coat hanger….
Yep, he locked himself out AGAIN, and this time with my unlock kit INSIDE the Jeep, and has been spending the last 20 minutes trying to get back in….
We had to call for another driver to come by and use his kit to unlock it.
Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
Well, as luck would have it, the other day I had one final call for the day, an unlock of a Jeep Cherokee at a hotel parking lot. I get there and see the guy in the back corner of the lot. I get out my tools, pop the locks open, do the paperwork, and spend a minute or two shootin’ the breeze since unlock customers are almost without exception happy and chatty so they’re always fun.
When I finish up, I go back to the shop and start cleaning out my truck as my shift was up, and, uh oh, I can’t find the unlock kit. I realize I probably left it back at the hotel, I was so wrapped up making small talk I just didn’t pick it up off the ground when I was done, what with juggling my paperwork, clipboard, his credit card, etc etc etc.
So I drive back to the lot, and no luck, the bag isn’t there, maybe the guy I did the unlock for turned it in to the front desk? I’m assuming he was staying there. I talk to the desk clerk, and fortunately, I still remember the guy’s name. Yes, he’s a guest, but he didn’t turn anything in to her, but she can give me his cell phone number. I call him up, and yes, he does have the kit, just as I suspected, I left it on the ground. He put it in his Jeep for safekeeping and was going to bring it by the shop tomorrow morning. I won’t be in, so I offer to meet him somewhere and pick it up. He gives me directions to the factory he’s working at that night and tells me where visitor parking is, says he’ll meet me there in like 20 minutes.
So, with a sense of relief, I drive over to the next town and pull into the gates of his jobsite, and I immediately see him standing next to the Jeep, with a flashlight…. And a coat hanger….
Yep, he locked himself out AGAIN, and this time with my unlock kit INSIDE the Jeep, and has been spending the last 20 minutes trying to get back in….
We had to call for another driver to come by and use his kit to unlock it.
Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
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