The woes of locking your keys in your truck....

[Chrispbrown36]

So the daughter and I headed north to go visit my Mom. The truck handled well on the interstate, first time on the interstate since I bought it. She cruised along at 70 with no shaking or anything....I was pretty happy with that.
Around 4 pm we decided to go grab something to eat. I went over and locked the truck up and as I shut the door I realized I had left the keys in the ignition. No big deal I thought......my uncle is the cop in town and surely they have a slim jim.....I will just give him a call later and have him swing by. We got back about 7 pm and I sent him a text and he tells me they don't carry them anymore. So I call up the motor club and they say they will send someone over....2 hours later. So I wait. The guy gets here and falls all over himself talking about how nice my truck is....I say thank you...now please be careful. He brings out a wire tool of some sort that was way too thick and was NOT designed for manual locks. I asked hi if he had a slim jim and after some digging around he finally finds one. For some reason neither one of us could get the thing to slide down between the trim piece and the glass.....now time for plan c. I go in and get a coat hanger. He messes around....whines about his hands hurting..smokes half a pack of cigarettes. Finally I grab the hanger and I just do it myself......So, for a solid hour this jackwagon messed around and in 5 minutes I pop it open....with a coat hanger I already had. Why did I call the motor club? Well I assumed that they would have some sort of tool that would do it without any paint scratching or anything.....wrong! Between him messing around with the slim jim and the coat hanger being jerked around the paint on the inside of the door and the door jam took a bit of a beating but nothing too awful bad.....that door needed some work anyway and somewhere down the road a paint job will be needed for the truck. Lesson learned and spare key (which was resting safely in the ashtray) is now tucked safely in my billfold. On the plus side....that truck isn't simple to break into!