Driving down the road the other day I heard my keys clunk against the steering column.
In the old days my key fob had only one key on it. It worked for both the ignition and the truck door locks. There was no key for the house; we trusted our neighbours and left all the doors unlocked (in fact my current key ring has three keys just for the house). I didn’t carry separate keys for the padlocks for my trailer hitches, gates and the assortment of various locks within the house.
I remember that I always kept my trailer door key in the trailer on a hook ’cause I never needed to lock it anyway. And, we didn’t need a post office key for the mail box at the corner of the block because our mail was delivered by nice people right to our door.
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In the old days, I used to chuck my trusty old 30-30 into the rifle rack that was mounted against the truck back window with no need for trigger locks.
Nowadays you’d get pulled over and suspected of wanting to do some serious damage to something other than the tin cans at the rural city dump.
And no one nowadays, absolutely no one, displays their grandpa’s old blunderbuss over the fireplace mantle. It seems it’s an unspoken sin to be a gun owner or something. Strange…
And, in the old days, we didn’t have a selection of little plastic refund tabs stuck on our key rings. We did business with folks that charged us just the right amount, and we knew it. I guess you could say that a key ring nowadays is testament to the changes we see in our society. Too bad. I like the idea of the fob with one key on it a lot better.
T. Wainwright
@SalmonArm
newsroom@saobserver.net
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