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Broken Key Story

I was leaving Pittsburgh after a conference where @jessitron stood up and talked in front of a couple hundred people. (Coincidentally, I learned that Pittsburgh has a street named Kerr Rd.)

Everything was going quite nicely, beautiful weather, very few other drivers on the road, and me riding our little black motorcycle.

But motorcycles aren't very comfortable, especially when big people are on small motorcycles. I stopped at a gas station to stretch my legs and fill the gas.

But I was clumsy and broke the key in the gas tank lock :(.

So I called a couple of people who could help with making a new key. None of them could help with motorcycle keys!

Thankfully, one of them knew the right person to help. So I called Pop-A-Lock in Pittsburgh and within 30 min, a very nice man arrived to help.

He worked like a surgeon with pliers and tweezers to pull the broken key out of my lock. Then he looked at the shape of the key and made one that was exactly the same, but not broken!

And I drove home safely to my partner and little feline children.

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