Why Are Locksmiths So "Rough around the edges" ?

Stick a spare key in your purse, or tape it to the back of your cell phone ...

IMO, its BECAUSE AAA will NOT pay a 'decent' pay rate FOR the locksmiths.. in MY area, the daytime unlock rate is $25, and that gets you within like a 5 mile circle, then its plus milage.. AAA wont pay that.. so-you get (sorry to say) the desperate for business locksmiths --Shiva--

If your BM allows the vehicle to be locked whilst the keys are in the ignition you should be yelling at BM. Doesn't BM supply a spare key, that is credit card size, which you can keep in your purse? Failing that employ a chauffeur

Brainless twits with BMW's should call Daddy first.

I'm assuming you are a fair, decent person that has had some bad experiences and not someone looking to tick off locksmiths here for sport.

To make the assumption you did (and post it here the way you did) based on a small number of events is wrong, both logically and statistically.

I've seen my share of 'rough' <fill in the blank> (painters, plumbers, handymen, policemen, etc.) but I've also seen clean, polite, decent ones who do a great job. Same with locksmiths... some are as you say and some are not.

Have you contacted AAA about their problem? I say it is their problem because they are hiring these oafs. If you can document to them what you said here, they might offer you a refund or discount on your AAA coverage.

You (and AAA) get what you pay for. I own my own business and can assure you I'm neither ignorant, smelly, or slimy. I'm quite the opposite. And, I'm sure, are many of the locksmiths all over this country.

Ted, she is BS'ing you and the rest of the groups (I am reading this in alt.os.windows-xp)...

I have a BMW 760i and it's IMPOSSIBLE to lock the keys in the car, in the ignition. You can push the door lock buttons all you like but it will not work. Now, if she leaves them on the console or seat, that's a different matter. Also, I don't know how AAA is involved? Maybe it's a geographic thing, but I have called BMW once to fix a flat and I didn't get AAA, I got some local guy who was extremely polite to the point that I gave him a very nice tip, took his card and have referred business his way because of his professionalism.

Sounds like a twisted person to me.

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Corrine MacDermott wrote: <snip troll>

You locksmiths are being trolled by a From address 'entity' or persona which has no posting history and with a crosspost to disparate groups from a free news.aioe.org newsserver which provides no nntp posting host or X-authentication line in the headers.

Such crossposting trolls to those other newsgroups and from that newsserver are common, and some people filter them out on the basis of the newsserver posting host and the crossposting alone.

People who yell at their BMs would be kind of odd. Most people just flush them.

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funny :-) guess ya get what you and AAA pays for ...

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Sounds good to me.

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|>Ted, she is BS'ing you and the rest of the groups (I am reading this in |>alt.os.windows-xp)...

|>I have a BMW 760i and it's IMPOSSIBLE to lock the keys in the car, in the |>ignition. |>You can push the door lock buttons all you like but it will not work. |>Now, if she leaves them on the console or seat, that's a different matter.

My Mazda does this as well, Push down on the lock and it pops back up if the keys are in the ignition. Had me entertained... I played for a awhile trying to lock it until I figured out what was going on :)

|>Also, I don't know how AAA is involved?

I lock'd my keys in my CRX, called the dealership I bought the car from (a block away) dude show'd up with a long piece of sheet metal slip'd it between the door and frame jerk'd up and it open'd - it opens any car.

I think they should take away her toys until she learns how to play nicely...laptop, cellphone, purse, luggage bag, everything else. Geesh - she doesn't need a chauffeur, she needs a bellhop.

I can visualize "old man" looking in anger at the bowl, yelling "what took you so long???"

I would think that anyone with at least 1/2 a brain would carry a spare set of keys on them! This would be far cheaper, and a lot less of a waste of time to wait around for the locksmith. Also, carrying a spare key would get rid of the problems in dealing with these characters.