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Mary-Go-Round: Car keys find barefaced hiding spots
My friend and I left the swimming pool, went to the car and tried to unlock the car.
No response.
We tried to open the doors.
No response.
I reached in the gym bag and discovered another set of keys that worked perfectly and then realized I had Art?s keys, which we had been looking for over the past five days.
Duh!
Then my friend told me she and her husband had spent an hour looking for his car keys ...
MARY OVROM
Sep. 30, 2018 10:14 pm
My friend and I left the swimming pool, went to the car and tried to unlock the car.
No response.
We tried to open the doors.
No response.
I reached in the gym bag and discovered another set of keys that worked perfectly and then realized I had Art?s keys, which we had been looking for over the past five days.
Duh!
Then my friend told me she and her husband had spent an hour looking for his car keys to no avail.
?I?ve looked everywhere for those keys except on the visor,? he told her.
?Well,? she said, ?That?s where you always put them.?
Sure enough, there they were.
Duh, again.
Then another friend in the pool said she had misplaced her car keys, looked everywhere and finally gave up.
One day she got out her sewing box and there were those keys, nestled in with the spools of thread, needles and pins.
Duh III.
???
Someone at a Fairfield grocery store must have been having a major senior moment when a woman ordered a birthday cake for her husband Jim.
?Put ?Happy Birthday? on it,? she said, adding that Jim would pick it up.
When Jim went to the store to get the cake, he was surprised to see it said in frosting, ?Happy Birthday. Jim will pick it up.?

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