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Decennial Key Ring Cleaning
I cleaned off my key ring the other day. I hadn't done it in at least 10 years.
My key ring is one of those things that I don't normally think about. I take it out of my pocket, select the appropriate key and unlock whatever lock I need to unlock.
However, last week, I took the keys out of my pocket and actually looked at them. I studied them for the first time in a long time. I realized that of the thirteen keys dangling from the ring, I used three. Unfortunately, of the 10 remaining keys I could only identify a couple.
One was to my old truck that I got rid of 4 years ago. I'm really not sure why I never took it off. Perhaps, I thought I might recognize my old S-15 in a parking lot somewhere and take it for a spin, just for old times sake.
Don't think I wouldn't know my old truck if I did happen upon it. It has some distinctive features such as the bulge in the back wall of the bed from when I moved an old Honda motorcycle that was a little too large for the 6-foot length. And then there is a golf-ball-sized dimple on the all steel chrome bumper from where someone hit it. Even if the current owner has painted it, it's not likely that either of those problems have been fixed.
Another key on my ring is to the front door of the building Concord Printing Services occupied for a few decades on Broadway. CPS is part of the company that also owns my employer, the Southeast Missourian.
I've had that particular key since about 1993. Even though that lock was changed a few years ago when the CPS operations were consolidated into the same building as the newspaper, I deliberately kept that key on my ring. It was big and heavy, the perfect tool for opening up boxes.
I also found hiding on my ring a key to one of those luggage locks that people often used when flying before the terrorist attack on nine-eleven. I can't even remember the last time I used one of those locks. Anymore it seems pointless to lock your checked bags at the airport with all the security.
As far as the other keys, I'm just not sure what they unlock. One may be to my parent's house. And I think another may be to The Club I bought for my old truck years ago. That's one of those security devices that clamps across your steering wheel to keep it from being turned, but I haven't felt the need to use mine in years.
Perhaps, if that key does belong to my Club I will put the set -- the key and the Club -- in my new truck and keep looking for my old S-15.
I'm sure the new owner will be completely baffled when they come out from whatever store they've been in to find the security device lying in the passenger seat and the S-15 parked in a different spot from where they left it.
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