All Hail the Hatchback Trunk

Recently I went outside to warm up my car, but when I came back to the car to leave for work, I found a problem—I couldn’t open the door. My engine was running, but the car would not let me use the remote “key fob” (thanks Robby for teaching me that term) to open the door. No problem right, just use the key? Well, the key would not turn; due to the cold the keyhole was kinda frozen.

Now, while I appreciate Ford Motor Company’s concern my safety, and thus making it impossible to use the key fob to open the door while the car is running, such a safeguard is a pain at times like these. I had no time to castigate (GRE WORD!) this safeguard however; and knew of only one way to get into my car—through the trunk.


For some reason (probably the raised rubber that surrounds the key hole) my trunk was able to open using the key. This little tidbit would have done me no good if I didn’t have a hatchback automobile. As you know, a normal sedan’s trunk is enclosed and does not allow access to the car’s cabin, but a hatchback allows full access to the cabin after removing the little roof thing (see attached picture).



So, imagine, a random black guy, crawling through the trunk of a car, and over the backseats. Yeah, even I couldn’t help but laugh. Thank God for my agility, flexibility, and relatively slender body. Soon after navigating the cabin of my car, I was off to work, being very glad that I purchased a hatchback.

Btw, someone told me about an aerosol-type can that is used to defrost keyholes. Does anyone know where I can purchase this—besides Wal-Mart, because, you know, Wal-Mart is evil.