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Since Tony paid a garage bill, it must be asked ...

posted 10 years ago by kevin-bergin
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... don't he put his car key together with the flat key on a chain?

[–] ppllkk 10 years ago

kevin-bergin wrote:

.. don't he put his car key together with the flat key on a chain?

You think that he would have done that because that is what you would've done?People handle keys differently. To the best of my knowledge, there is no universal standard.

[–] Altho73 10 years ago

Some cars did not even have ignition keys back then, they just had a starter button that you pressed.

[–] jbwphoto1 10 years ago

And I know into the 1990s, my father often parked his vehicles with the keys in them over the sunvisor. He said if someone stole the vehicle, he didn't want to add repairing the steering column to the list of things he would have to get done when/if it was returned.

[–] kevin-bergin 10 years ago

Dad sounds like a calculating SOB.
Good thought though.

[–] bctelecom 9 years ago

I just think it's funny that all the characters are carrying around loose keys.

[–] steely3000 9 years ago

Actually, not strange at all. I grew up in the 60s, and our apartment keys were not on a keychain, just loose keys. We didn't have a car, so there was no need for a key chain.

In these characters' cases, they each only had keys to their respective apartments, so why have a chain? As for the car, if it was kept in a GAR-age, the key would be in the ignition or glove box or wherever.

[–] bctelecom 9 years ago

I also grew up in the 60s and had just one key, the key to our back door, which was rarely locked. But I guess my parents were better off than yours, they gave me a key tag to put my key on.

[–] den_quixote 7 years ago

I have always been told to never keep your home key on your key chain because an unscrupulous person to whom you may have given your car key (a valet parking attendant perhaps) might just make a copy of it and make use of it later as in Thief Of Hearts.