Date:         Sat, 22 Sep 2012 03:50:23 -0700
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
Comments: To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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For daily use it's the normal keyring (van key, other van key, motorcycle key, house key, mystery key, etc.) but on trips I stow that and revert to using the "I heart my van" key fob from the PO with the plastic-head OEM key.  There's a spare stashed in case the inevitable occurs, which it has not, yet.  Yet.

When driving for a living years ago I learned to keep a second key in a different pocket in case the inevitable occurred, which DID actually occur back then, which made me start doing that to begin with.

Repeated dumb stuff?  Does leaving it in the driveway umcamped for weeks on end count?

Stephen

--- On Fri, 9/21/12, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, September 21, 2012, 6:04 PM

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 12:43 PM 9/21/2012, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >That didn't help me when I left the gas cap with keys on top of the
> >gas pump just outside Glacier National Park and drove sixty miles
> >before I knew what I had done.  Drove back, and there was the gas
> >cap with keys.  That didn't teach me, I still leave the keys in the
> >gas cap, but usually I place it on the passenger side floor -- not always.
>
> Wasn't it a clue when you noticed you were driving someone else's
> car?  Oh...you don't keep the gas key on the same ring with the
> ignition key.  If you had my memory, you would. ;-)

I keep spare keys in my pocket.