Finding your keys, Eastie style
By adamg - 11/3/08 - 10:59 am
Fabulously Out There reports what happened when the local beat cop managed to drop his keys into a storm sewer under her roommate's car:
... The police officer and our local Italians, who hang out in the front door then decided to PICK UP roommate's Saturn and move it about 8 feet back.
I am NOT KIDDING YOU.
While they are doing this Neighbor A watched and witness Neighbor B hanging out the window screaming "What the fuck are you doing, that's ROOMMATE'S car." ...
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Old cars that were rear
Old cars that were rear wheel drive were easy to move because all you had to do was lift the back and roll the car. With the back weighing much less then the front, and the front tires being "unlocked". Now that many cars are front wheel drive its much harder to do it that way. I can only assume these guys must have picked the whole car up off the ground and moved it, which in itself isnt that uncommon but it sure is a great way to throw out ones back especially if one of your buddies drops his share before you get the chance to.
Why didn't he just bend down
Why didn't he just bend down and pick up the keys? Keys don't exactly roll around under a car. Something's not kosher with this story.
According to sources (neighbors...)
...the keys had fallen into the gutter..or whatever the thing is called with the grates....sorry, not a native speaker. You know what I mean?
Of course I am merely relaying what I was told through roommate and neighbors (although neighbor confirmed said story at Halloween Party this weekend).
I tend to be kosher with my stories. ;) Reliable sources only, and the car was moved 8 feet when we got home.
Ah, changed gutter to storm sewer in my post
When I saw "gutter," I thought he just dropped his keys under her car (with "gutter" being the generic term for the space where the curb meets the sidewalk), as opposed to down a storm sewer.
Ha
I better change that too! :)
Its simple the cop was next
Its simple the cop was next to the car, dropped the keys which fell into the old grates that East Boston still has. Im assuming it was dark out and hard to see, plus you would have a hard time laying down and getting a good reach with a car in the way so you move the problem. Not that unbelievable really.
Thanks...
...thanks Shadymilkman! That's what apparently happened. They weren't just under the car, because, clearly ,we can all figure out a way to get a set of keys from under the car..they dropped into the grates and whatever they did once they moved the car to get the keys out, I don't know. But apparently the keys were recovered. ;)
Geez, Shadymilkman. It's a
Geez, Shadymilkman. It's a perfectly nice slice-of-life story and entertaining and we obviously both read the whole thing--so why do you have to go and pull it to pieces and "meh--no big deal" all over the place. If it's no big deal and you think it's not that cool--then just skip it and move on to the next thing. Leave it alone. I have never seen anyone move a car to get their keys--seems interesting and unusual enough to me!
Geez Beaver I was responding
Geez Beaver I was responding to the person who was saying the story seemed fishy, and the blogger commented back to me in an appreciative manner.