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Lockpicker to the Resque

Today I have quite a story. I was driving Gintare her sister’s car to pick Gintare up from the center. Gintare met with Doville who had my business cards. So they were waiting in the center on the side of the road. I parked and jumped out the car, and started to chat. And that is when the trouble started. I always let my car keys on the car when I am just standing next to it. And I am not used driving this car. This Ford Focus closes automatically after 2 minutes. So the car keys got locked in the car. Good thing there are such things as spare keys. The only problem was that Gintare’s sister had the spare keys, and she is now in Rome….

On rear window of the car was a security label with a telephone number. Gintare called that number and we had to call back in 10 minutes. So we called again and the man on the phone would arrange something. He called us back and told that he sent someone who’ll be there in 20 minutes. And 20 minutes later a silver, dirty, BMW without any prints stopped and came to the resque. He took a fine piece of flexible metal bar out of the trunk and asked us kindly to step away from the car and not to look at him. Only 20 seconds later the door was open. This guy was good! It did cost us 100LTL which is around 30 euros. But if we’d call him directly it would’ve been 50LTL, that’s only 15euros… The funny thing is that he did not check if we were the owners of the car. In the end all was good. It only took about 45 minutes from getting the keys locked in the car to driving off to the center.