Oops, I Did It Again

So I worked on this short film today. My friend's partner is co-producing and I volunteered my time to help out since I'm currently not working. Well, one of my resposibilities was to move cars on the street (since they decided not to use a local parking garage), as there was only two hour parking until 6pm. Our call time was 7am.

So this one time, I had to move two Fords -- one a Ford Taurus, the other a Ford Bronco. I move the Bronco, but it didn't look close enough to the curb. So I pulled out the car keys from my pocket again that said "Ford" on them, stuck it into the ignition and turned. SNAP! The key broke in half! I had stuck the Ford Taurus key into the Ford Bronco's ignition and it broke the key!!! Just my fucking luck, people!

So we have a Bronco with a broken key in its ignition and a Taurus without an ignition key. I told my friend the producer what happened and immediately called 911, er, AAA. They could extract the broken key for $115 (against my membership premium). I wanted to use tweezers to remove the broken key, but my friend wanted to use AAA. Okey-dokey. And how stupid and embarrassed do I feel? OMG. However, another person parked their car over a pedestrian walkway and received a $300+ ticket from the Beverly Hills parking authority. Somehow, I don't feel so bad.

So AAA comes, removes the broken key and said the Broncos broken ignition actually snipped the key in two. So it really wasn't my fault, aside from the fact I inserted the wrong Ford key! Whew!! I was able to get a copy of the broken key that worked in the Ford Taurus ignition. Thank God!!! Drama ovah!!

Did I mention my bad luck with cars since I moved to LA? Lets see, there was my windshield shattered by a pine cone; I not only scraped my car against my parking garage (and I wasn't even drunk!), but I also scraped my former boss' car against their brick wall in their driveway ($700+ later!); and now this!!!

Really, I'm not a bad driver. I just have bad luck. Apparently.