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Locked Out

Today when I locked my keys in my car in a grocery store parking lot, I frantically tried to see if I could pick the lock myself before the locksmith came by jabbing a ballpoint pen into the keyhole. This was right after I had also stuffed a rusty shish kabob skewer in there, snapping it in half.

People everywhere wouldn't stop staring at me suspiciously, but my thinking was that if I could successfully pick the lock and drive off, I would save myself 55 dollars and avoid the locksmith that I had called to come help me.

The locksmith finally arrived and saw my handiwork to the keyhole, with all of its fresh scratches, and he said, "What the heck did you do here?"

"I tried picking it with a ballpoint pen."

Examining the keyhole oozing with ink, he said, "I can see that. But why would you do that?"

"Because my pinkie finger didn't work, man. That, and I didn't have a Philips screwdriver."

Friday, August 26, 2005

8 Comments

#1 Nic

Where the hell did you find a shishkabob skewer?

August 26, 2005 12:13 PM
#2 Larry

Why didnt you use your weiner im sure its small enough to fit. you could think of michael jordan im sure that would make it hard enough.

August 26, 2005 09:04 PM
#3 Frank

I think there is free locksmithing...but you have to be on campus. One of the parking meter maid people did it for me.

August 26, 2005 10:55 PM
#4 Shaunna

Couldn't you have also called the police to do it? I see them do it all the time.

August 27, 2005 12:11 PM
#5 Mark

The campus police do it here for free if you're on campus, but only if your locks are manual. I have no idea why, unless power locks can be easily screwed up and they don't want the liability.

August 27, 2005 01:08 PM
#6 BMF

larry... hahaha!

August 30, 2005 04:35 AM
#7 Baron

Don't you know how to get into a locked car? Towel around your elbow, smash the window, pop the lock and you're in. And then you gotta fix the ignition...but we'll leave that for another time

=P

September 3, 2005 05:56 PM
#8 chad

The world's thinnest ballpoint pens are available at JetPens!

October 20, 2005 09:18 PM