Breaking Into My Old Car

My very first car was a cute little Toyota Corolla hatchback. It was the first car that I owned. It was the first car that I even drove. And it was the first car that I learned how to break into.

You see, I used to have a serious problem with constantly losing my car keys when I was a teenager. I'd put them down somewhere and forget all about them. Even more often than losing them, I'd lock them inside of the car. The first few times that this happened, I called AAA to come unlock the car for me so I could get them. After awhile, though, I figured that it made a lot more sense to learn how to break into the car than to keep calling them to come rescue me.

The first time that I had to do it was when I was at the drive-in movie theatre with a bunch of friends. We left the car running so that we could hear the movie but we were sitting outside of the car. When it was time to go, we realized that I'd locked my keys in the Corolla yet again. A friend tore off my Toyota antenna and used it jimmy open the window and unlock the door. That antenna was the first of many Toyota Corolla parts that I had to replace over the years but I never had to call AAA about that car again!