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[pigtin]

Went down to the pub yesterday, in the A7 Special, for lunch. Afterwards I called in home on the way to the hospital for a blood test. Parked in the drive, went in through the front door, had a pee and checked the mail. Went back to the car and the keys could not be found.

Have searched everywhere and I mean everywhere! Excluding the possibility of my having flushed them down the loo, or some little scroat having snuck up the drive and stolen them, I am at a loss...

Read in the 'Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy' that ballpoint pens have found a worm-hole in the space-time continum and that's where they go.
Do you think it's the same with keys?

[Rick]

My problem is usually not finding things where I left them, eg I might leave a pully on the back of a chair downstairs, yet somehow it finds its way into a drawer in the bedroom, and even more amazingly folds itself en route. Same with magazines, I might leave one on the coffee table for future reading, yet it often vanishes, only to re-materialise on top of a pile of similar publications in the room here. Yet if I leave an oily rag on a shelf in the garage, it will still be there in a month's time. I just can't explain it!

RJ
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[old gto]

a worm-hole in the space-time continum
Yes....pens, keys, and socks.
But socks NEVER travel in pairs, they leave one at a time!
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[Roverron]

A parallel universe exists. In this other world people visit our world and take things away to show their friends, they then fetch them back. This is the cause of small tools et cetera reappearing in places that you have already searched.
I leave the keys 'in the slot' and then I know were they are, usually.
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[Peter_L]

I bought a key fob from a guy in a pub.

It has some amazing gizmo's. Firstly it has a receiver that can be contacted via a telephone. It will give out an audible signal and also "talk back" with it's GPS bearings. It will also react to a voice command if with earshot and gives out an audible and visual signal. The fob contains sufficient bouancy foam as to allow it to float, but if immersed in water, it will give out an alarm and can itself contact a cell phone, land line and e-mail address.
The inbuilt shock sensor and accelerometer also triggers the outgoing signals, firstly with the audio/visual alarms but if not cancelled within 30 seconds it will transmit to a cell phone, land line and e-mail address.

The fob is part of an immobilzer system which is attached to the vehicle, once an alarm has been triggered, the immobilzer has to be reset with a 16 digit code before it will work again.


I was so impressed that I asked the guy if I could buy several of them. "Alas no" he said.. "it is the only one I have".

"But where did you get it ?" I asked, to which he replied "I found it in the street last week"

[Greeney in France]

I bought one of those bleeping keyfobs about 15yrs ago that bleep if you whistle, it lasted about 1hr as I went to see ALIEN at the cinema after buying it, every time the little girl squealed it bleeped annoyingly loud so I stamped on it
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[Scotty]

After the winter break I went to ease the Chevy back into life - however I couldn't find the keys. Now normally being the anally retentive person I am the first thing I did when we bought the car 11 years ago was to get a key blank from the US to ensure we always had a spare.

This plan worked well until for some reason best known to heavens only knows who I had decided to hide the keys safely over the winter ......... and hide them I did, but the flaw in that plan was to remember where 5 months later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So you'll be saying to yourself "but he had a spare made", and you're quite right, except the donkey (me!) didn't remember to get a different blank for the locking petrol cap, so it never got cut. Has anybody here ever tried to drill out a lock barrel from a petrol cap, I can tell you on American caps they must make the things out of ultra-strong Titanium.

The only good part to this story was old gto came to my rescue and air-mailed spare blanks for the ignition key.

And as a sort pf "PS" - the lost keys eventually turned up months later safely tucked inside a little box of spare parts I'd ordered - and the box was where? 9 inches from my nose sitting on my desk - DUH! Anybody need a useless gas cap key?