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Subject:Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:56:04 -0400

At 12:23 PM 9/21/2012, Gregg Carlen wrote:
>My confession: I leave my keys in the locking gas cap so I can't
>drive off without putting the gas cap back on. My dumb thing is to
>leave the keys and the gas cap together sitting on top of the pump
>and don't realize it until I've climbed in to the drivers seat.

That's not dumb.  It simply shows how smart you were (c'mon, Greg,
it's a lot of extra work to take the key out of that cap and put it
back in, unless your cap is completely different from the three I've
had experience with). ;-)  Which is why I went to a lot of effort to
get a locking cap for my present beast which didn't have one.  On the
pump it sits.  Even I'm not unconscious enough to drive off with the
cap hanging from my keychain.

Yrs,
d