I have finally calmed down enough to write about this.

Yesterday I went for my weekly grocery trip at Wal-Mart.  Everything was going very nicely until I loaded all my groceries into the car.  I had started the car to cool it off while I was loading the groceries.  I closed the door and low and behold one of the bags fell against the door lock and there I was; car running, groceries and purse in the car AND MY KEYS WERE LOCKED IN THERE ALSO.  Ah _ _ _ _!

Okay, I was calm, hey I was at Wal-Mart that has Customer Service and an Auto Department it should be a breeze to get my car open. 

I went to Customer Service and was referred to the Auto Department.  When I informed them I had locked my keys in the car and needed help they looked at me like I was from Mars.  They said they couldn’t help me I would have to call a locksmith.  I had just spent all my money on groceries as I just grabbed my small purse to run to the store.  I asked the Garden Department for a rock to break the window and a rude clerk said “how do I know it is your car?”  I felt like decking her right then and there as my temper was building rapidly.  Who in the world in their right mind would ask someone to help them break a window on someone else’s car, REALLY.  I asked her to call the police if she thought that.  She didn’t but I did thinking they would

help me but again I was told there was nothing they could do unless I had locked my child or a pet in the car.  What do we pay them for anyway…….I thought it was to SERVE AND PROTECT.  I was a 5′2″ 60 year old woman with groceries in the car and I told them my circumstances but they said to call a locksmith.  I went back to Customer Service and an extremely nice Hispanic woman dialed the company phone so I could make a call to try to reach my brother before he went to work as my cellphone was locked in the car.  Thank goodness he was at home.  By the way, it was so easy for him to get my door unlocked it was astonishing……he took a wire coathanger, ran it down the side of the glass and unlocked the car in less than 5 minutes.  I was standing there with my mouth wide open thinking how utterly easy it was to unlock a car.

 I realize everyone should be careful but I was not aware people were afraid of a petite woman saying her keys were locked in the car. 

The moral of this story I guess is to keep a wire coathanger taped under the fender of your car.  After what I saw my brother do a 6 year old could pop a locked car open in nothing flat.  Oh, by the way it is a new car with an alarm system  and how the door locked with the key in the ignition is beyond me.  I didn’t think they did that.