You are finishing up a days fishing alone, get back to your car and realize you locked your keys in it (expletive deleted). The nearest locksmith is twenty miles away and will never figure how to find you anyhow. You don't want to break the window. What next? You remember the cell phone in the waterproof bag in the vest you are wearing. You call your wife (thank heavens she's home!) and tell her to get the extra set of keys to your car. Tell her next to push the "open lock" button on the key device as you hold the cell phone by the windshield. PRESTO! The door unlocks! Mercy!
I tried this. IT WORKS!
Three requirements: An accessable cell phone, an extra key with unlock device at home, a wife (or other loveable person) at home with a phone.
Possible problem: Keeping wife locked in house for duration of your fishing trip creates immediate default. May be avoided if wife is away but has own cell phone number and keeps your extra key in her purse. This will work even if you are a thousand miles from home! Merely electronic magic. Try it! It may make your day sometime in the future.
Bad Bob (Have I ever lied to you?)
Great idea! Read this!
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A different approach
I like Bob's idea, but I don't think my wife will hang around the house while I'm fishing, in the event I lock the keys in the car. My solution to this is: Don't lock the keys in the car, and here's how I do it.
My fishing buddy and I agreed on this system years ago (after he locked his keys in his car). When we park along a river to fish, we put the car keys on the roof of the car, in plain sight, while we pull on our waders and rig up our fly rods. Then, one of us puts the keys in a pocket (usually the pocket in the front of my waders, which zips shut) before we close the doors and lock the car. The alternative is to leave the keys atop one of the tires or tucked high in a wheel well. THat has come in handy when we wander up or down different parts of a stream, one of us falls in and has to head back to the car to peel off the wet clothes. If the keys are somewhere near the car, then either of us can get in, even if the other guy hasn't come back. So there. Although I do like Bob's high-tech solution.
My fishing buddy and I agreed on this system years ago (after he locked his keys in his car). When we park along a river to fish, we put the car keys on the roof of the car, in plain sight, while we pull on our waders and rig up our fly rods. Then, one of us puts the keys in a pocket (usually the pocket in the front of my waders, which zips shut) before we close the doors and lock the car. The alternative is to leave the keys atop one of the tires or tucked high in a wheel well. THat has come in handy when we wander up or down different parts of a stream, one of us falls in and has to head back to the car to peel off the wet clothes. If the keys are somewhere near the car, then either of us can get in, even if the other guy hasn't come back. So there. Although I do like Bob's high-tech solution.
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This only has to work once in your lifetime for for me to be your hero. If nothing else, try it just to entertain yourself if bored someday.
I have had to break a window once to get to my key.
My billfold had an extra key in it. Recently when I went to a restaurant with valet parking, my car was still at the front door when I left. Valet key wouldn't work (Glad I hadn't counted on it in the boonies!) Valet was not a happy camper.
Have had my wallet get soaked after falling in the creek. Carry only my license now.
The local scurvy characters in Tennessee know all the hiding places for keys. First place they look is on top of tires. Second is under tire wells and bumpers for magnets. Third is under nearby rocks. They may be scurvy but they are desperate. Had tires slashed once while fishing because they couldn't figure how to get to my battery (which was not in engine compartment).
Another good reason to carry cell phone is old coots like me are sooner or later gonna do something stupid like break something other than a fly rod.
My next advice will be of even less value.
Bad Bob (PS- I am working on another book. Still have time for this foolishness. Just don't waste it by going somewhere to work everyday)
I have had to break a window once to get to my key.
My billfold had an extra key in it. Recently when I went to a restaurant with valet parking, my car was still at the front door when I left. Valet key wouldn't work (Glad I hadn't counted on it in the boonies!) Valet was not a happy camper.
Have had my wallet get soaked after falling in the creek. Carry only my license now.
The local scurvy characters in Tennessee know all the hiding places for keys. First place they look is on top of tires. Second is under tire wells and bumpers for magnets. Third is under nearby rocks. They may be scurvy but they are desperate. Had tires slashed once while fishing because they couldn't figure how to get to my battery (which was not in engine compartment).
Another good reason to carry cell phone is old coots like me are sooner or later gonna do something stupid like break something other than a fly rod.
My next advice will be of even less value.
Bad Bob (PS- I am working on another book. Still have time for this foolishness. Just don't waste it by going somewhere to work everyday)