Spencer, john's cousin through his keys on his car seat so they wouldn't get lost while camping. Not realizing that once he closed the door his car would automatically lock it for him. REalizing he had not way in, the boys started to problem solve. They pried open the door just enough to get a few sticks down there to try and hit the unlock key. After many failed attempts they "borrowed" some steel wire from the forest service fence and used that. After many unsuccessful attempts and having three twigs, wire, a pry bar they decided let's put the sticks on the inside of the door handle and try and open it. We could see the lock starting to come up but the door was not budging and mocking them the entire time. Finally the door couldn't take it anymore and they thought they popped the lock when in reality they just pried the door open. The car is fine Megan (spencer's wife) just fine. No real damage done. I don't hear that loud creak and pop as the door opens. I am sure after some WD40 it will be like new. needless to say when it was time to cut down the tree~ spencer being the smart fellow he is, moved his car out of the trees path.
Moral of the story: don't buy a car that is smarter then you are.
Surveying the situation..... if we could only hit the unlcock button or get the stick behind the door handle and pull forward.
The weather stripping. It was just torn a little bit. Looks good considering all it went through. Megan (spencer's wife) it looks worse then what really happened (wink wink)
Wood chips and broken pieces of bark that were in his car.
Surveying the situation..... if we could only hit the unlcock button or get the stick behind the door handle and pull forward. 
The weather stripping. It was just torn a little bit. Looks good considering all it went through. Megan (spencer's wife) it looks worse then what really happened (wink wink)
At least they were having a good time in a frustrating situation!
ReplyDeleteI must common on this one. Betina, we were in Old Mexico down at Rocky Point. A big family affair. Mother, Kathy, her son Brett, John, Gretchen, Heidi Ann, john dillinger, Harley Rose, Hemi Jade was in the basket and me. Gretchen had heard of a place down there was Rocky Points answer to Sea World. (Another funny story). Well my daughter in all her wisdom talked my son in law to take a short cut to Rocky Point's Sea World. When we took the short cut it started out as a minor trial at best!! Instead of backing up Gretchen talked John into forging ahead. There was the Nobles trail blazing a new trial. Brett and his Jeep and mother and Muffy driving mom's car. Oh yeah, Muffy came too. As we pioneered a new short cut to Rockey Points' Sea World...John hits a sand pit that when he hit it, he sunk that hugh van where the other two cars could only see the top half! Muff, Brett, John, Gretchen tried digging it out the sand toys. Shovels and buckets we brought to play in the beach. Brett found a string to tie his car to and their van. My mother, my sweet mother, says to me "What are they doing"... I don't know mom, it looks like they have decided to play "let's fill up the van with sand" Wanta play? Thru all that mid morning "fun" there was not one cruel word, yelling, John was smiling and even all was laughing thru the misery of the car being buried. We got the Van unburied (is that a word?) and we were about to get on track to go to Rockey Points' version of Sea World when Muff backed her car into the sand pit. Shorter version, her car was much lighter so everybody just more or less picked it up and put it back on track. THEN....after several hours of great playing in sand, dirt and cars, we were a few minutes from Sea World --Rocky Points...version.
ReplyDeleteThat too was a great experience. Sea World Rocky Point Style... ask Grettcy...
We did have a great time! It just goes to show if your innovative enough even plastic beach toys and do the job of shovels and rakes. Just gotta work a little harder. And the mexican sea world was AWESOME. remember the fish that almost jumped out and bite your nose off. Only in Rocky Point. We need to do that again. minus getting our car stuck.
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