"Omaha John" and I went in a small town Kentucky pool room to get some action. Back then they didn't even hesitate and agreed to play both of us.
We went out to get our cues and discovered that John had accidently locked the keys in the car. We went back in and said "can someone call a locksmith, we locked our keys in the car".
Six guys jumped up at the same time and said "I'll get it open for ya," pulling slim-jims out of their pockets. One of them got to the door first and preceded to get our car open as fast with his slim-jim as we could with the key.
We didn't waste a minute and won a couple thousand in 4-5 hours.* Later that year we saw the front page of a newspaper said "ONE OF THE BIGGEST CAR THEFT RINGS IN THE COUNTRY BUSTED IN CORBIN KENTUCKY"........The article said they all hung out at a local pool room across from the original Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Suddenly it all made sense.....John and I joked about that for several days!
We went out to get our cues and discovered that John had accidently locked the keys in the car. We went back in and said "can someone call a locksmith, we locked our keys in the car".
Six guys jumped up at the same time and said "I'll get it open for ya," pulling slim-jims out of their pockets. One of them got to the door first and preceded to get our car open as fast with his slim-jim as we could with the key.
We didn't waste a minute and won a couple thousand in 4-5 hours.* Later that year we saw the front page of a newspaper said "ONE OF THE BIGGEST CAR THEFT RINGS IN THE COUNTRY BUSTED IN CORBIN KENTUCKY"........The article said they all hung out at a local pool room across from the original Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Suddenly it all made sense.....John and I joked about that for several days!