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Lost my car keys
Well I’d just finished frosting up a window today in the centre of town and on a red route and in the congestion area. Had about ten minutes left to get back to my parking bay to discover I’ve lost my keys!
Talk about panic! I couldn’t seem to work my mobile phone I was in such a state. There are cameras everywhere which take registration numbers and violaters of time allowed.Phoned my mate who ransacked my house to find the spare set. He set off in a taxi and I was hoping he had in his possession the right keys!
I’m having to stand by car so that I can explain the wardens (they can be merciless).
I had all my sign equipment on the pavement waiting to load up. After about twenty minutes these guys came up to me and said to me: "Have you lost a set of Keys mate?" Sure enough they had the keys! I just couldn’t believe it. They obviously saw me there with all the equipment on the pavement and guessed right.
Then my mate turned 10 minutes later with the spare set
Had he turned up earlier I wouldn’t have got my originals from those guys
One of the car keys has a chip and it cost me over £100 to get a spareAll in all what I thought was a disastrous day didn’t turn out that bad after all
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Its really annoying when you lose keys, particularly when you’re in a rush! I usually always eventually find them right under my nose so to speak, and I could kick myself! I left my keys in the front door this evening, with four sets of car keys (I’m not rich! I’m doing up 2 classic minis!), house keys, numerous work keys and who knows what else! If it wasn’t for the milkman coming for payment, I’d probably have lost my car, and been burgled while we were out!
Adam
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John, I bet somebody asked you the stupidest question ever when you lose something,
‘WHERE HAD YOU THEM, LAST?Arrrrrghhhhhhh! (hot) (hot)
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i lost mine on the beach the other night, this is normally absolutely fatal cos when fishing, you’ll walk up n down the beach and bury them,
luckily i lost them right on the edge of the beach, at the end of the night and my lad found them, they now have reflective strips all over them just incase i ever do it again !
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Hi John its realy annoying ,i lost mine once in parking and whoever found my keys pass it to parking security office and i asked them by chance and they gave it to me.Did you asked them ?
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quote :John, I bet somebody asked you the stupidest question ever when you lose something,
‘WHERE HAD YOU THEM, LAST?Yep! you’re dead right they did? 🙄
"Where did you put them last?" The shopkeeper said 🙄
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adam, what mini’s have you got?
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quote peter hardwicki:adam, what mini’s have you got?If they are pre 70ish, it wouldnt matter if you lost the keys any FS with a bit of a wiggle would work!!
Peter
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quote Peter Normington:If they are pre 70ish, it wouldnt matter if you lost the keys any FS with a bit of a wiggle would work!!yep…i used to be able to open mini’s with a house yale key 😀
nik
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was that in your miss spent youth Nik 😕
Lynn
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oooops……….no i worded that wrong on my friends car and mine 😀
nik
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i had a 1964 mini cooper 997-not 998cc all original-blue with a black roof, it was my first car at 17-i wish i still had it, after that i got a 1971 cooper s 1275, lovely but not original-full length sunroof-minilites-mayfair glass-corbeau seats wood and pickett dash…nice car
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I used to have a 1967 morris mini deluxe. I t had alloy wheels and bucket seats. I painted it black with a tin of Dulux and added gold pinstripes from Halfords. I was only 18 at the time and the police were always stopping me to check if I had a licence insurance and MOT. The sunstrip also had Phill & Alison across it.
I caught someone trying to steal it once. The culprits ended up in court where Alison and I had to appear as witnesses. One pleaded guilty but the other got off with it as he claimed not to have known that the car was being stolen, merely that he had been offered a lift home by his mate that was stealing the car.
As Nik said – you could start it with any old key 😕
Happy days 😀
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I had a new Golf in ’79 and I parked in the city one night with my mates and went to the movies. Got out late at night and couldn’t find my keys, to find I had locked them in the car.
While I was pondering the situation, another Golf owner walked up an ask me what was the problem. Told him about my key, and he suggested he should try his.
Just as I was about to say ‘don’t be stupid’ he was in the car and retrieving my keys from the ignition.
Spoke to VW about it the next day and they said it was not unheard of, but rare all the same. Apparently the amount of lock combinations they had back then were pretty insignificant, and I happened to meet another bloke with the same combination at midnight in a big city. Would love to know the odds of that.
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in 92 i sold my first 1976 capri (first car) to a pal, but soon found out that my new capri (1984 model) keys would work in it too, same situation really, he’d locked the keys in it, and couldnt find any of the black plastic packing straps as was the norm with any old ford !
oh the fun i used to have, later at night i would get in the car, and park it a few spaces away from where he’d left it, he only lived a little way up the road, so it was great fun to watch him scratch his head when i did it !
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My first car was a yellow mini cooper early 1960 ‘ish
Twin carbs
lower spax suspension (set to hard: Felt like a little go kart going around roundabouts)
Racing steering wheel and seat
Wide wheelsHad gear box problems though – couldn’t get it into fourth!!! 🙄
Driving around the built up areas in London you didn’t need fourth
But you certainly missed it when you took it on the open roadSilly little key to open door and ignition :lol1:
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quote Harry Cleary:John, I bet somebody asked you the stupidest question ever when you lose something,
‘WHERE HAD YOU THEM, LAST?Arrrrrghhhhhhh! (hot) (hot)
….Harry theres worse than that …"where did you lose them "? (hot) (hot)
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😛 😛 😛 I’ve been asked it, I’ve been asked it! just did’nt think youse would believe me! there nowt stranger than folk! 😛 😛
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quote Harry Cleary:😛 😛 😛 I’ve been asked it, I’ve been asked it! just did’nt think youse would believe me! there nowt stranger than folk! 😛 😛
😀 😀 😀
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quote John Singh:My first car was a yellow mini cooper early 1960 ‘ish
Twin carbs
lower spax suspension (set to hard: Felt like a little go kart going around roundabouts)
Racing steering wheel and seat
Wide wheels:lol1:
John, you are the type of bloke my dad wouldn’t let me party with when I was younger 😉
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my first was a vauxhall viva 😳 😳 ….the embaresment
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Mine was a Meschersmitt cost me sick squid.
Peter 😀
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we talking plane …or three wheeler peter
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I have a 1985 Ritz 998, a 1990 Mayfair 998 and a 1996 Cooper 1275. Nothing really old, but they’re just as fun! I’d love a really old Mini, but can’t afford one! Plus I need to finish at least one before I start another! I’ve been offered two late Mini Pickups…..just umming and arring about it now! I have no space!!!
Not been here in almost a week! Been busy at work. 🙁
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quote Brian Little:my first was a vauxhall viva 😳 😳 ….the embaresment
Bet I was more embarased than you Brian, me and me mate lost a brand new one on Blackpool beach when the tide came in. (1967)
Messerschmitt was the 3 wheeler (BTW the car and the plane both had 3)
Peter
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