LOL The other "wrong key" story for me was in 2018 or 2019, when I ended up driving to a motel along old Route 66 and got room "6", took a shower, and collapsed in bed exhausted. A couple of hours later I was woken up by someone who ALSO had the key to room "6" and it ended up I had actually checked into "Room 9" but the key also worked for "Room 6". We just traded keys (not that we needed to, LOL).
@ai6yr When visiting Xian in 2010, the hotel randomly gave us an absurdly large suite, rather than a regular room. Later that evening, as I was in the shower, someone just walked into the room, saw that I was there and walked away without saying anything. Then we got a call to tell us that the room was needed and we had to move to a different one.
Moral of the story: there are not such things as “keys” in China.
@rustoleumlove@vpermar I haven't been in Xi'an in forever, but when I was there I remember they were still treating the floors of the hotel with some nasty pesticide granules that is probably banned nowadays, I believe for killing roaches or something. And that was in the "public pit toilet" era 🤢
@ai6yr my sister lost the key to my 1978 Toyota Corona while dancing in a club. But my roommate had a copy of a key for a similar vintage Toyota Corolla which also worked for my car with just a little jiggling
@ai6yr Many years ago we had a fancy lockable mailbox that someone took a crowbar to and destroyed the lock. The mailbox was otherwise in fine shape so we managed to fabricate anti-crowbar reinforcements and replaced the lock with a new one I got from the local ace hardware.
Some years later a truck ran over the mailbox, and we got a new one. The old key for the ace hardware cabinet lock worked in the new mailbox. I'm still astonished about it.
@ai6yr I am guessing that 1986 Honda Civics were similar. As a new driver I once got into and sat inside another gray Civic, then I looked around and realized I was not in my car.
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in the 1970s, i discovered that the keys to my parents' Chevy station wagon would open the door to the travel-trailer that it towed on vacation. (I suspect the trailer's lock used fewer pins while using same keyway/blank, but not sure.) This was sometimes useful.
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well, most locks are "tamper-evident" not "tamper-proof", for purposes of discouraging amateur theft (and demonstrating actual loss because damage, not mere insurance-fraud or stupidity).
@n1vux@ai6yr yeah a friend had hand made stickers for the soft sides of his Suzuki Sierra which read "please don't cut, the doors aren't locked, the stereo is garbage".
@n1vux@nickzoic LOL I know some folks who started leaving their doors unlocked with signs in the windows at trailheads saying "DOORS ARE UNLOCKED, NOTHING WORTH ANYTHING IN HERE" because they kept getting windows broken, and replacing the window cost way more than anything anyone would steal from the car (aside from the car itself)
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