Locked Out!!!

[Linda_Wells]

Who else has done this? I took a cat to a friend of mine who lives in Chesterfield. (delivery run as she doesn't have a car.)
I went down to see some new - 2 day old -kittens at a friend's house, came back, picked up the cat carrier, put it in the boot, slammed down the boot lid... Guess where the car keys were??? What to do
Went to garage opposite, they tried all the keys they had - none worked. Called the police who offered to come and break a window (thanks, I could do that on my own!) I am insured through a company who has links to a motoring organisation - the RAC. All the papers, phone number etc, were - yes, in my bag in the car! (So were my cigarettes, but that's another story) Anyway, I called the RAC who gave me the number for the insurance co, who called the RAC who came out in about a half hour. I didn't even know whereabouts I was to tell them to come!
How embarassing (I like smileys too!)

[Ann]

You're not alone! My experience wasn't as drastic as yours, but it was certainly very embarrassing!

I was in Sainsbury's carpark in a snowstorm. I got the engine running, got out of the car to clean the snow off the windscreen and somehow the car door swung shut. I was locked out of the car with the engine running! Luckily the door was in that half and half state where, although I couldn't open it, it hadn't completely shut either. A Sainsbury's security man got it open by inserting part of a wire coat hanger into the door and clicking the lock back without damaging the car/paintwork. He said it happened all the time.

Ann

[topaz]

That reminds me of an incident many years ago in the south of France when, on returning to our car after a day on a very long beach, our keys were found to be missing. NO SPARE and very far from home. Our chances had to be close to nil. When all seemed lost, my 5 year old sister, with something of a reputation as an eagle-eye spotted a tiny glint in the sun and we were saved.
However, that didn't stop the gearbox failing soon after, and we had to endure a long hot journey home in first and second gear. HAPPY DAYS!

[Maria]

My shame:-
Car breaks down on the way to an engagement party 300-ish miles away. AA tow us to garage near a guesthouse where we are staying overnight. (Middle of nowhere). Next morning we go to the garage. Turns out it'll take at least a week for them to fix the car and get necessary parts..we had to return home that day....so much persuasion gets the AA relay Service to come and collect the car and take it (and us) back home. Huge AA pick-up truck turns up and parks on the tiny forecourt of this little village garage, and the garage guy is getting stroppy as it's in the way....AA man asks us for car keys as he needs them. I search madly then...ooops. The AA man points out that they are still in the ignition...doors to car thoroughly locked. Had to wait 3 hours for another AA van with equipment to open the car up, while the big truck had to wait as well, to tow us back home. Garage guy gets even more stroppy and my family who were there all disowned us and disappeared to the pub. Sigh. Still, the AA bloke was a very nice man!
This was several years ago, but even now, my family don't let me forget it.
Maria