Probably one of the luckiest times I’ve ever had was in 2007, I was driving around in Colorado for a short vacation. I was living in Kansas at the time and had a three day weekend free. So I was driving south of Denver towards Colorado Springs along the highway, many miles from home.

About halfway through the trip I stopped at a gas station to fill up. When I was done I noticed that I’d locked my keys in the car. I was freaking out because there was only this gas station and a fire station around, nothing else. This was before AAA, before smartphones.

I asked the gas station attendant if they could help in some way. He said I could try the fire station next door.

I went to the fire station to see if they could help. As luck would have it, there was an instructor there showing a group of fireman how to unlock locked cars. So they came over to the gas station to use my car as an example.

This was on a Sunday. I was very lucky.