For daily use it's the normal keyring (van key, other van key, motorcycle key, house key, mystery key, etc.) but on trips I stow that and revert to using the "I heart my van" key fob from the PO with the plastic-head OEM key.� There's a spare stashed in case the inevitable occurs, which it has not, yet.� Yet.

When driving for a living years ago I learned to keep a second key in a different pocket in case the inevitable occurred, which DID actually occur back then, which made me start doing that to begin with.

Repeated dumb stuff?� Does leaving it in the driveway umcamped for weeks on end count?

Stephen

--- On Fri, 9/21/12, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: What dumb thing do you repeatedly do with your Vanagon?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, September 21, 2012, 6:04 PM

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 12:43 PM 9/21/2012, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >That didn't help me when I left the gas cap with keys on top of the
> >gas pump just outside Glacier National Park and drove sixty miles
> >before I knew what I had done.� Drove back, and there was the gas
> >cap with keys.� That didn't teach me, I still leave the keys in the
> >gas cap, but usually I place it on the passenger side floor -- not always.
>
> Wasn't it a clue when you noticed you were driving someone else's
> car?� Oh...you don't keep the gas key on the same ring with the
> ignition key.� If you had my memory, you would. ;-)

I keep spare keys in my pocket.�