Since the 16 year old now has her license and is driving a bit, it would be helpful if she had keys to the cars. The old junker cars, I mean.<\/p>\n
So I took her to Ace Hardware with both the keys to the old truck and the old camry to make copies so she wouldn’t have to constantly ask her brother if she could use the keys. It went less than smoothly. First of all, the guy couldn’t FIND the key to use for the ’88 Camry. Yes, I said ’88. I know some of you weren’t even alive in ’88, but that’s the year of this car. Finally the girl who was working there (who we happen to know) came over to help him find the right key, and then he worked on making a copy. He managed to copy the key for the ’90 Nissan truck ok, but that Camry key was giving him trouble. He finally turned the job over to the girl. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, my daughter and I had roamed Ace Hardware looking at paint colors, looking at seeds, looking at plants, and they STILL didn’t have it done. I went to go pick up my other daughter from her friend’s house, and came back.<\/p>\n
“Is she done with that key, yet?” I asked.
\n“DANG,’ said the clerk, and threw another key into the trash.
\nIt wasn’t going well, as the key was slightly bent.<\/p>\n
“You know,” I said, “it’s a really old car, and it probably doesn’t have to be exact to start it. Why don’t you just give us one of those that you messed up on, and we’ll try it.”
\nGlad to be rid of us, she gave us one of the failure keys. <\/p>\n
Turns out, it’s good enough. It seems to work in the car.<\/p>\n
But whey my daughter took the truck today, she says her key turns the car ON, but the radio, and windsheild wipers don’t work with her key. <\/p>\n
What? We’ll have to look into that.<\/p>\n
So, in honor of old cars everywhere (and specifically one old Camry)…<\/p>\n