Lesson #6

Always have a spare car key.

I don't know how many times I've locked my keys in my car the past couple of years. Sophomore year I had to call people to bail me out like 4 times or something. One of those times I even managed to lock them in while the engine was running.

Thankfully for some reason or another, my grandpa made like 4 copies of my keys before giving me the car. My problem for a long time though was that I just kept all those spares in my desk drawer at home. Dumb.

Now I have one in my back pack and one in my wallet. I should probably tape one to my gas cap hatch thing too, just to cover all my bases. But once I started carrying these extra keys around, my life got so much easier. There have been several times when I've walked back to my car from campus or work and I'm digging through my bag and can't find my keys anywhere. Well, there they are still in the ignition for whatever reason. No problem. Here's my spare. Bam.

Maybe this is a dumb lesson that I've learned. I'm sure not everyone is this ridiculous. But, you never know when you might accidentally lock your keys in the car. Perhaps with your three-year-old son on the hottest day of the summer in Georgia (that's a story to ask my mother one day).

Better safe than sorry, I always say.