Key bored

I know a lot of the new cars come with various ways to keep you from locking your keys in the car, or at least a way to get the damn thing unlocked once you do. There's OnStar and the little keypads and data sensors and all that good stuff, but what about the rest of us. It seems ridiculous that anyone in 2007 has to deal with keys being stuck in a car.

I'm not really in the mood to drop money on upgrading my car with fancy electronics. It just isn't a sound investment at this point. Whatever is made available to the rest of us has to be cheap and low-tech. And if I have my way, it'll run on wood.

I came up with a lot of ridiculous ideas involving straps and such, but really, what I settled on would at least help and makes more sense.

If you can prove you have a parking lot with at least 10 spots, it's legal for you to have a blackjack. You know, one of those cool devices that will unlock all the older cars. I don't know who would enforce this, but this way you don't have to call AAA everytime you do this. If you do at your house, you're screwed. But any place you park would be able to help you out and it would be a way for them to provide nice customer service for cheap. If an establishment got smart, they'd add some safeguards to ensure you couldn't just lie about which car was yours.

This doesn't exactly solve the problem I identified (and may or may not be a problem in reality), but I think it might help, which is all I ever really set out to do anyway.