True story....Ever had one of those days where everything that could go wrong went wrong?
Just bought my new Dodge pickup a few years back. Hooked up the boat and headed to Beaufort for the weekend. Backed the boat down the ramp , off the trailer, tied it up, got in the truck and pulled the trailer out and parked it in the parking lot. grabbed all my crap out of the back, towels, fold up chairs, cooler, sunscreen and all the crap wife was hauling on the ride and locked the doors. Got down to the boat and stepped off the dock into the boat...one leg in the boat, one leg on the dock, arms full of crap.....boat rocks, I lose balance, truck keys leave my fingers and hit the water.
I swear it was like slow-motion. It seemed like it took the keys 15 seconds to fall that 3 feet and hit the water, and another minute to sink out of sight, and all I could do was stand there and watch.
Couldn't get the boat out of the water - no truck keys. Couldn't leave - no truck keys. The bilge plug for the boat was laying on the console in the truck (doors locked) so the boat was filling up with water. I had to run over to where folks stored their boats and steal one outta somebody's boat for a few hours. There was a nice guy there with one of them strong magnets on a rope. He trawled back and forth for 20 minutes or so but the current was strong in the ICW. Keys were probably 5 miles up the ICW by now.
Darned glad I had AAA. I had to sit around for about 3 hours, but they sent a locksmith from an hour away on sunday evening. He unlocked the truck in about 2 minutes and cut me a key, didn't cost me a cent. A sunday evening call to come all the way from Jacksonville woulda probably cost me five hundred bucks.
Went to the locksmith to see about getting a replacement fob that week. He couldn't do it, sent me to dealership. They told me if I had one already they could "clone" it for a few bucks. But if I didn't have one to clone they had to reprogram the computer on the truck and put that code into a new fob and it would be about $500. Since the only fob I had was at the bottom of the Neuse river somewhere, I opened my truck doors with the key for the next five years.
Lessons learned.
First thing I did when I got my new F150 in December was go to the dealership and have the fob cloned and put it up somewhere safe for emergencies. So now I got three fobs! LOL I won't be caught fobless again!