October 18, 2019
Good morning crew,
It's been a while since I locked myself out of my own house. The last time I did it was back in the condo days. Believe it or not, I had to climb up three balconies in the middle of the night like Batman in order to let myself in through my balcony door. The neighbor on the second floor called the police because there was a maniac in a long black coat hanging off of her balcony railing. I wish I were making that up.
Since then I've made it a point to always keep a spare set of keys in the garage. I leave them hanging on the pegboard above the workbench I built the year we moved into the house (
you can read about that little adventure here if you're interested). This frustrates the wife to no end because in her mind any scofflaw or malefactor who happens to be walking past the garage when the door is open might see the keys hanging from the pegboard from a distance of 60 feet away and deduce that they are house keys and come back in the middle of the day and use them to sneak into the house.
But I think I have found a solution to that little problem in a new product we recently picked up. It is a
Secret Safe designed to look exactly like a can of general purpose lubricant.
It looks like a can of spray that might be sitting on any garage shelf or underneath any kitchen sink. It feels like a can of lubricant and it weighs like a can of lubricant, but by twisting open the top you'll find a a secret storage compartment. It's just big enough to hide a roll of emergency cash, valuable jewelry, maybe an important document, or a spare set of keys you don't want anybody else to find.
It's like Edgar Allan Poe hypothesised; the best place to hide something is in plain sight.
So with this little gadget sitting in the garage nobody is ever going to find those keys. I only hope I don't forget where I put them or I'll never find those keys again either.
Click here if you'd like some more details on the Secret Safe or to order one yourself.
Laugh it up,
Joe
joe@gophercentral.com
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Two fellows stopped into an English pub for a drink. They called the proprietor over and asked him to settle an argument.
"Are there two pints in a quart or four?" asked one.
"There be two pints in a quart," confirmed the proprietor.
They moved back along the bar and soon the barmaid asked for their order.
"Two pints please, miss, and the bartender offered to buy them for us."
The barmaid doubted that her boss would be so generous, so one of the fellows called out to the proprietor at the other end of the bar, "You did say two pints, didn't you?"
"That's right," he called back, "two pints."
Guaranteed to Roll Your Eyes
It was time for the final and the student depending upon getting at least one right answer on the chemistry test.
The question was "If H2O if water, what is H2O4?"
This was a quick question for most, but it took the student some thinking time.
Finally, he wrote down his answer: For drinking, washing, and cleaning.
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