I don't keep anything in the hatch. However, I do have a detachable baseboard which covers the spare tire, jack, tarp, etc. You can't see it unless you detach the baseboard. I would be able to tell if it was mine right away due to the license plate and the air freshener.
Woman puts $700 gifts into wrong car trunk
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I don't keep anything in the hatch. However, I do have a detachable baseboard which covers the spare tire, jack, tarp, etc. You can't see it unless you detach the baseboard. I would be able to tell if it was mine right away due to the license plate and the air freshener.
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A few years back, I drove my nephew's silver van to the grocery store because he had my car blocked. At this time, silver vans were everywhere you looked! When I went into the grocery, another silver van, same model and all, parked 2 spaces down from me. I came out of the grocery and just walked over and opened the door. There was man sitting in the driver's seat!
I don't know which one of us had the most shocked expression on our face!
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Many years ago my mom and dad would pick up my daughter from school. Dad sat in the car and mom would wait by the bench. It started to rain and mom hurried back to dad and his car. She got in someone else's car and the driver gave her the funniest look. Mom was a little embarrassed, but we still laugh about it today. My dad who has now passed was at a loss as to what to say to her!!!
Many years ago my mom and dad would pick up my daughter from school. Dad sat in the car and mom would wait by the bench. It started to rain and mom hurried back to dad and his car. She got in someone else's car and the driver gave her the funniest look. Mom was a little embarrassed, but we still laugh about it today. My dad who has now passed was at a loss as to what to say to her!!!
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Crazy story, but why is she buying over $700 in gifts after being laid off? That's a month of rent and groceries where I live, for a single person. How about $100 and explaining that things are going to be tight for a while until Mom finds another job?
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True but she didn't get IN the car. She opened the "trunk" put the gifts in and walked away.
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You don't know her financial situation. She has a family, so odds are that the husband has a job. Or that they have money in savings that would last them for a while. It's not any of our business though.
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And what was she doing spending $700 after she is laid off??
Anyway, I think my vehicles are fairly unique - I have a long wheelbase Jeep Wrangler Unlimited (the two-door lengthened precursor to the 2007 Wrangler Unlimited 4-door and later), of which only a tad over 33,000 were made from 2004-2006. My 2005 is also part of the smallest batch of Unlimited models made in 2004-2006. I wonder of the 7,450 made in my year, how many have my paint scheme? International Harvester Scout II vehicles are not that common in these parts. It's a 1977. There hasn't been a new one made in over 30 years!
Probably some last-minute shopping. Guess being laid off gave her the opportunity to do so. Is it really any of our business to tell her how to spend her money though?
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Bad day for the woman that it happened to. But on the flip side, perhaps someone in a bind got a secret santa now. So maybe it's not as terrible but still terrible! 
I've heard and read that a lot of (older) domestic cars have the problem with keys opening a different car because they are easily replaceable. With a lot of modern imports, they have a transponder radio chip built in the key that reduces the chances of getting the wrong car.
Hence why you go to Home Depot and get a copy of your Ford key made, but not so much luck with a Toyota. I don't know if the times have changed for domestics nowadays.
I've heard and read that a lot of (older) domestic cars have the problem with keys opening a different car because they are easily replaceable. With a lot of modern imports, they have a transponder radio chip built in the key that reduces the chances of getting the wrong car.
Hence why you go to Home Depot and get a copy of your Ford key made, but not so much luck with a Toyota. I don't know if the times have changed for domestics nowadays.
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Oh, yeah! That reminds me of the time when I had an aftermarket alarm installed in my car, in the 90s I think. I was at a bar one night with a sideyard bordered with a chain-link fence. I think what happened was that I think I forgot to set the alarm, so I clicked it and it armed itself. At the same time, it disarmed another car close by as its owner was walking away from it. He armed it again, and I clicked it off. He turned around and went "Whaattt??" Armed it again. By this time, a friend was snickering at this drama, and I clicked it off again. The man was getting mad, wondering who the hell was doing this. He rearmed it and I clicked it off again one more time. Meanwhile, I was standing around minding my own business.
With my vehicles, I don't have that issue. I don't miss hearing the beeps of the alarm on a previous car. I don't have to worry about accidentally forgetting to disarm before opening the door. That car, you couldn't disarm without a sound, so when I had to get inside, everyone in the camping area would hear it. "Wake the hell up, people. It's 3 AM!! What are you doing asleep?!" Why didn't they allow for a stealth disarm/arm cycle? Ooohhh, wait a minute... That's rriiiiiight... People who drive newer CR-Vs in general don't go camping and wouldn't know what to do in the boonies.
The remotes are one reason why it would be a nice thing to be deaf. I don't have to hear alarms going off or being armed/disarmed all night. I'm surprised that as a health hazard from a lack of deep sleep, that someone hasn't initiated a petition for a law requiring that alarms be configured to allow for stealth functioning.
Naisho, I know for my Wrangler, you have to have a key that electronically matches yours for the Key Sentry system to allow it to start the motor. If the code in the keyhead doesn't match, even if the key is the same physically, it won't start (in other words, the dealer forgets to code the key before giving it to you, or you fail to follow the manual on how to program extra keys from the ignition). Of course, it doesn't stop the dedicated thieves from getting around it and stealing it anyway.
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I didn't say it was my business to tell her, BUT there is a real possibility that she did it out of fear - "If I don't do it this year, I may not be able to buy gifts next year if the job market is as bad as it is for my industry." Another angle to this is that she might be in over her head so much that an extra $700 wouldn't matter. I've read of many people during the housing boom doing exactly that when it became personally clear to them that they were losing their homes, their access to the home equity line of credit (HELOC), and the debt run up had become unmanageable. They'd just go out and arrange for that latest trip to the Bahamas or that latest "space ship" car, since they realized that they would not be able to go or have a car like it for a very long time while they rebuilt their credit from the ground up after bankruptcy. In this case, banks end up having to write this debt off because it can't be collected (or take a very long time for it to be settled up). And that will teach the bank who extended that credit to people with clear income limits to the ability to keep juggling debt around like that. Keep giving them more credit even though their income has not gone up and their debt/limit ratio keeps going up.
So maybe that $700 will contribute to the eventual collapse of the banking system as we know it today.
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It's public information, therefore open to comment.
It is not really fair to expect the husband to catch the shortfall in revenue. After a layoff, everyone should tighten their belts until another job is found. That's just (un)common sense.
It is possible that she has savings to last a while, but it is still not a great idea to spend it, because whether she'll find another job in this economy is uncertain.
A more likely scenario is that she is putting it on the credit card. Consumer debt is huge in America and frankly, it's one of the biggest reasons why people were hit so hard in this economy. They can't afford their debt. Adding to it doesn't help at all.
It was just commentary, that's all.
Doesn't matter... this is not about her financial situation. Let's try to not make assumptions here, okay?
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Back off. I said my piece about this and that's that. Run off and manage other people's opinions, not mine.
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True but part of the story is because she just lost her job, so you have to wonder if it is a factor in the story or not.
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I wonder if there is a local news in another town:
"Woman finds $500 worth of gifts in trunk of her car"
"It was like a surprise," said Jane Doe of Dearborn, MI. "Some secret santa found the perfect boots for my daughter."
Although it's entirely possible that there were no gifts to begin with.
Could be a chance a woman was fabricating a story for the news. Not saying this one was, though, but I'm willing to not rule out fake stories happen in order to gain public attention for donations and/or a cause.
"Woman finds $500 worth of gifts in trunk of her car"
"It was like a surprise," said Jane Doe of Dearborn, MI. "Some secret santa found the perfect boots for my daughter."
Although it's entirely possible that there were no gifts to begin with.
Could be a chance a woman was fabricating a story for the news. Not saying this one was, though, but I'm willing to not rule out fake stories happen in order to gain public attention for donations and/or a cause.
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Although it's entirely possible that there were no gifts to begin with.
Yes, given some peoples desire for fame you would think the owner of the other car would come forward, come off as a good Samaritan and get 15 minutes of fame, or as you say there is no other car involved.
Like I said, let's try to not make assumptions here. Try to keep your temper under control, okay?
Yes, given some peoples desire for fame you would think the owner of the other car would come forward, come off as a good Samaritan and get 15 minutes of fame, or as you say there is no other car involved.
It's either that or the driver never checks the trunk.