Blow wheels!

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Meeeee oh my. Some of you might have a car or truck that sports a little keypad on the outside of the driver's-side door. Key or pad in the code and the door clicks open. I think that's a mighty cool thing. My mother-in-law's Ford Exploder has one, and when we borrowed it to drive to Seattle last summer, I made her dig up the code for the thing, JIC I locked the keys in the thing. I didn't, but I always used the keypad to open the door, even though the key fob-clicker would do it for me. I'm just that kinda guy.

So I pull into the Albertson's car park the other day and some yutz is pullin' in who's driving a Ford Exploder that sports the same little keypad pulls in near me. We're walking through the lot together so I ask him if he minded me askin' him a question. It's fun to do this to people, esp. in LA, because everyone here's SOOOOO important and hates to be bothered. I love bothering. He says, "sure," so I say, "yr little door keypad, you use it?" "Sometimes," he says. "You leave a car key hidden in yr car to be on the safe side? You lose yr keys or some such, you know you can key or pad in and retrieve yr hidden key. I had one of them keypads, I'd sure leave a key hidden in the Jeep."

He said, "no." I repeated that I sure would. He said, "somebody could break in and drive away." I thought about that for a second. "Hmmm," I said, and left it at that. I didn't see the need to remind him that the key would be hidden and known only to him. They broke in, they'd drive the fucker away the old-fashioned way: Hotwire. I doubt they'd break in, say to themselves, "dudes drivin' theses rigs with keypads usually leave a carkey hidden within: Let's find it and joyride!" No.

Tonight - Argus Lounge.



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