It looked like my car

It looked like my car?!

 

A Cornwall, Ontario, woman came out of Walmart and left the parking lot with the black Nissan rental car she had just picked up. Two weeks later, when she returned to the rental agency, she complained about the car’s messy condition and the set of golf clubs left in it. The rental manger checked and told her the car she had rented was a Nissan Sentra, but the car she returned was an Infiniti.

The Infiniti owner had reported his car stolen from the Walmart parking lot, and when the woman and the rental manager returned to the lot, the Sentra was still parked there. The Infiniti owner got his car back. The police urged citizens to “not leave your key fobs in your vehicle when not being operated.”

 

 

One rainy evening my husband, Carey and I emerged from a restaurant only to find we had locked the keys in the car. He insisted he could open it with a wire coat hanger. He went back to the restaurant to get one, but there were none to be found. Then he ran into a department store a quarter-mile away and returned with a hanger. After a few attempts, he got the door open and we climbed in. As we sat there cold and soaked, Carey stuck to hanger under seat with a smug grin he said, “If this happens again, I’ll have one.”

 

As a dispatcher for a tow truck company, I got a call from a woman who had gotten her wheel stuck in an open manhole. “Will it be long before you get here”, she asked. “Is it an emergency,” I asked.  “Well,” she sheepishly replied, “there is a man down there and he can’t get out.”

 

After registering for her high school classes my daughter burst into the house, filled with excitement. “Dad,” she announced in one breath, “I got all the classes I wanted. But I have to have my school supplies by tomorrow. I need a protractor and a compass for geometry, a dictionary for English, a dissecting kit for biology and a car for Drivers Ed.”