Nina's Blog - Friday 16th May 2025

Lucky you spotted it before anyone else did!

I hope your model of car is safe from the gangs who steal cars by eavesdropping on electronic keys.


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Reminds me of a horribly a narrow escape many years ago, with my first car.

I had driven to London, which I would never do now, for one day, to visit an exhibition, and found a parking space close the hall.

Emerging a few hours later... could not find my keys!

Only when I turned to go back to the hall to ask if any had been handed, I found them.... hanging from the driver's door lock!

Had the car gone, apart from that loss (uninsured as I'd left the keys with it, albeit accidentally) I'd been in a right mess:

- Well over a hundred miles from home.

- No credit or debit card as far as I can remember. I obtained cash over the bank counters, but was paid in cash at work at the time, so had probably saved for the trip directly from my wages.

- Probably enough money on me to buy fuel on the way home but not enough for the rail fare. I might have had my cheque-book so could have used that at the railway-station, another payment option now lost to keep the bean-counters happy.....
)Do the London railway termini still have ticket-offices? Many stations don't; another purchasing option lost to the B-Cs.)

- No 'phone as portable telephones had not yet been invented, or if they had they were rare, costly luxuries for the wealthy - such as over-paid types who'd nowadays be called 'Chief Bean-Counting Officers'.
(This happened in the 1970s)

- I doubt my remaining cash in my wallet would have paid for phone-calls home from a public telephone....