Talking to my dad tonight, was reminded of something that happened long ago.
True story… I had been sent to take an old catscan out of the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.
One morning I took a break around 9:30am. I intended to sit on a ledge by the main entrance and have a smoke. It was still winter but the sun was out and the building faced south.
As I crossed the main lobby, I met 2 guys pushing an elderly lady in a wheel chair into the building.
A few minutes later they came back out with an empty wheel chair. They were parked in a No Parking Zone by the curb, a big ole Delta 88 no less.
They collapsed the chair, put it in the trunk but for some reason the trunk lid wouldn’t shut. They kept looking at the latch, moved the chair around repeatedly, no go!
Finally, one guy decided he would get in the trunk to see why the latch wasn’t working.
Of course, that time the latch worked (as if on que)
I was already laughing at this point…
I could hear the muffled voice of the guy in the trunk yelling “Let me out! Let me out!”
The guy on the outside of the trunk was yelling back “You have the keys! You have the keys!”
I was laughing so hard I was having trouble breathing!

The only tool the outside guy had was finger nail clippers but he kept trying to pry the trunk open to no avail. This went on for 10 minutes.
I was beyond breathing now, I literally had tears streaming down my cheeks. This was the greatest show on earth!


I noticed people walking into the hospital were looking at me funny… One nice lady patted me on the shoulder and said “I’m sorry for your loss” … These people thought I had lost a loved one in the hospital… I think I blew snot at this point… This couldn’t possibly get any funnier!



About this time a good Samaritan (who wasn’t about to collapse from laughter) loaned them a screw driver. Outside guy manage to pry the top of the back seat out just enough for the inside guy to stick the keys through the gap.
The inside guy was finally free… and the best part… the latch stopped working again. They drove off with the trunk lid bouncing.
The next day my ribs were actually sore from laughing so hard.