Using an Auto Locksmith

Once, a group of friends and I were using our car as a base of operations. We had all our supplies in there, everything from food and drinks to jackets, you name it. We had parked outside of a parade route near a friend's house, and all we had to do was walk a couple of blocks to the parade. We had already been back and forth once or twice.

We were back at our friend's house eating some pizza from a nearby restaurant, and it was delicious. It was just what we needed after hours of standing in the sun, yelling for beads. After we finished, we went back outside to grab some more drinks and put our now-unneeded jackets back in the car.

Suddenly, I heard an anguished cry from across the street, coming from the direction of the car. As I whipped my head around to check what it was, I realized it was the boys. They were throwing their hands up in the air in exasperation, shaking their heads. I walked over there and asked them what was wrong.

They turned to me and told me that they accidentally locked the keys into the car and of course, the car holds everything that we need. And who is going to be able to get to us in the middle of a parade? Out of desperation, we called an auto locksmith. He told us over the phone that it would be about thirty minutes until he got there and would cost us about forty dollars. So, we said yes and sat around and waited.

As he promised, it only took about thirty minutes for the auto locksmith to show up. He got to work immediately. Using tools that only an auto locksmith has, he popped the car open. All in all, it took about a minute to get the car open. The auto locksmith turned to us and we gratefully gave him the money we owed him. He took it and told us to enjoy the rest of the parade.

After he left, we opened up the car again and grabbed everything that we needed and we were good to go. We walked back to the parade route victorious. Of course, on the way, I told the boys to be much more careful in the future.

Thankfully, there were no other mishaps for the rest of the trip. We continued to use our trusty car as our base, while we went to other parades, coming back to it periodically to recharge.