So that's what keys are for

[snopes]

There was a story making the rounds on the Internet a while ago about a young driver who phoned her dad in a panic after locking herself out of her car.

“What happened?” he asked. “Did you lose the keys?”

“I’ve got the keys in my hand,” she cried, “but the remote’s not working — the batteries are dead and the door won’t unlock. What am I going to do?”

“Take the key,” her dad told her, “put it in the slot in the door, and unlock it.”

And for the first time in her young life, she used a car key to open a car door.

Who knew keys were so useful?

Whether the story was true or apocryphal doesn’t much matter since the humour in it works whether we decide it’s just an urban legend, or something that really happened.

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[KirkMcD]

Whether the story was true or apocryphal doesn’t much matter since the humour in it works whether we decide it’s just an urban legend, or something that really happened.

It happened to a girl I used to work with. She was panicing all day until it was pointed out to her to just use the key.

And in the reverse, my ex-wife once called me in a panic from work that she had locked the keys in the car. I was seventy miles away at my job and really couldn't help her at the time. A little while later she called me back after realizing that she never actually locked the car, because she always used the remote to lock it and it was, of course, with the keys.

[Mycroft]

Last week I left something in my SILs car, and she gave me the keys without telling that you either have to open the door by remote, or if you use the key you have to then use the key normally to disable the alarm. For future reference her car alarm is very loud.

[bjohn13]

Originally Posted by KirkMcD

It happened to a girl I used to work with. She was panicing all day until it was pointed out to her to just use the key.

Only to start panicing again when the car wouldn't start.

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