Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 02, 2013

Awesome team.

Don’t panic ladies! More than likely, the station has a “Slim Jim” (a thin metal strip used for opening car doors), for just such circumstances.

Why’d they use a contraction for “why did”? (Sorry Mr. Foggerty must of rubbed off on me today, ewww!)

This looks like job for Frank DeGroot, Master of the hanger!

Keeping with a small world theory either Zane or Gunther will pull into this same gas station. I’d say Puddles but he only has a dog license and a drivers’ permit.

Are there really people who leave the car keys in the car, leaves the car unlocked, and goes into the mart to buy something?

Perhaps you’d rather that someone got into your car and drove off with it while you and your passenger were off doing whatever? THAT’S why we lock the doors! :-P

OMG! Bernice STOLE towels from the ladies room. I’m shocked. She has burst my bubble.

Whoops. Boy am I embarrassed. It was Delta that stole the towels.

@Q Werty…..that was a ludicrous comment to make on a comic site which is read by kiddoes. What gives?

I’m still shocked, just not as much.

Hold your phone up to the keyhole and have someone at home click your spare set.

::sigh:: Bernice, you’re in the wrong here. DON’T LEAVE THE KEYS.

@Crystal Guardian…yes….they usually come out of the store to see their car driven away.

Bernice and Delta are not in the habit of going on extended car trips. Obviously, this is the first time they’ve made this mistake..a learning experience , wouldn’t you say? After this, Bernice will most likely carry a second set of keys in her purse….or under the car somewhere in a magnetic box ….which crooks probably know about anyways.

Hoo-Boy.

The LEFT Hand doesn’t KNOW what the RIGHT Hand is Doing.

Fine Couple of “Counselors” THESE two Babes are gonna make!

One more thing: Paper towels from a Service Station Rest Room for Napkins???

NOT at MY Picnic….,

That’s why I carry 2 sets of keys.

Is it time for Dirk the Creepy Superhero to show up?

I can’t tell you how much I love seeing these two acting like dorks. They’re always trying to show Luann up, be more mature, more diligent, more everything… welcome to life, Ladies.

Trouble in paradise …

I don’t have automatic locks, so I want others to lock the doors. Why did Bernice lock her door?

I guess they don’t know a company called Pop A Lock(if it still in business).

One car we had we did that so many times, but it was so easy to break in, I just wrapped a piece of coathanger under the bumper and we’d use that.

The last time it happened, I just broke out a window and went and replaced it with a used one a couple days later.

Something tells me it’s not going to be that easy for these two.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the car’s doors are actually UNLOCKED — I remember having a Hyundai in 1986 (then-current-year model) where the two ways you could lock either of the front doors were:

closing the door while raising the outside handle (if you simply shut it, it would then unlock)turning it with the key (and no, I didn’t have power locks)

I’m on Delta’s side. At least the car’s still there.

Read my post from yesterday. You can’t lock all the doors from the passenger side. This can’t happen unless Bernice made the same Mistake as well. Bad Bernice.

+ As said from yesterday why didn’tan alarm go off in the car? Is it that old a car not to have 1 & It is wise not to have everyone leave the car at once so not to be stolen form unattendence.

There are places out there, where folks feel that they can…. not necessarily the big cities in the U.S., but in some smaller communities around them… maybe also in some places outside the U.S….. I’ve seen some people at suburban shopping areas set their personal effects down for a few seconds, because they’re used to it….

What we have here is a string of random events:• Bernice got out to pump gas, leaving keys in car. Delta’s in it, no worries.• Bernice goes inside to pay, thinking Delta is still in car.• Delta goes to bathroom, and automatically locks doors since it will be left by itself for a minute or two. She doesn’t think to check for the keys before she does it.

Who’s to blame? They both are, though perhaps Bernice is the most. Never, ever leave keys in car. When you get out, so do the keys.

So…Bernice walked away from the car assuming it was unlocked while the keys were still in it?

@EdwardWhite – My 2006 Ford Expedition allows you to lock all of the doors from the front passenger seat.

Kinda Laverne and Shirley, this time…. ironic that they’re such a good team, but didn’t communicate….. that’s the central thing here, it seems…. it seems they’re going to learn a lot about each other… a lot….

I shoulda made one of the commercials “Miss Understanding’s something or other”….

Most cars won’t lock if the key is in the ignition. Luann to the rescue.

I’m from New Orleans. We lock everything.

Of all the things that could go wrong with two girls out on a roadtrip THIS is what Greg came up with? Let Rob Zombie write the strip for a while.

Coathanger time . . .

Terrific example of a Chicks road trip Greg!!!!

Now THAT"S Just NAS-TY!!!

Hmmmm, wonder if they call Luann to help them out?

That’s why on Monday I posted one of the “sponsors” as a “chick flick road movie where there’s laughs, drama and learning on the way”….. just seemed like it was going to go that way on Monday.

Pop a lock is all over the country in most states

AND did Bernice drop the drinks???

You’re at a gas station. I’m sure the attendant has something to unlock the doors. Relax. Go inside and ask for help.

Nope;, No Drama on this trip!

To Delta and Bern: Neiner, neiner, neiner! Poetic justice at last!

I got to say it’s really not as dangerous as you all seem to imply to leave the doors unlocked. Even in the worst neighborhoods (which I don’t think they would have stopped in anyway) only a small percentage of the population are criminals.So the chances of a criminal randomly walking up, discovering the car is unlocked, which by the way is pretty suspicious activity, remember the car is in broad daylight and fuel stations are always set up for so the attendant can see the pumps, which they do watch, the criminal must also realize that the keys are in the ignition, impossible to tell from the drivers side, and drive off with the car.Remember of course that the amount of time a person will be in the station will generally be less than 5 minutes which is not a very good window and loitering around a gas station waiting for this perfect opportunity will most certainly illicit the attention of local law enforcement. Criminals prefer easy targets meaning ones that a person will be gone for a long time, more time to get away before police are called, poorly lit areas, and better cars than the one B is probably driving.

I’m still counting on some handsome guy coming to their rescue.

When traveling with a companion or group I give a spare key to another. Partly for just this sort of emergency. Partly because its possible I could lose my key a long distance from home. Partly because others may need to return to my car and shouldn’t have to hunt me down.

@ Edward White. You certainly CAN lock all the doors from the passenger side. I do it every day!

It wouldn’t help to have an extra set of keys in your purse if you lock that in the car. Rather embarrassed to admit I did that once.

Or maybe in the process of rescue during the course of conversation, somebody knows somebody, etc, and the result: another job lead or some other unexpected suprise comes about…..

This one’s on Bernice. When is it better to leave your keys in the ignition when you go inside a store than to lock the car doors? At least when Delta locked the doors, she made it a little tougher for potential carjackers. Bernice’s action all but invited them to swipe her car…it only takes a few seconds.

Crystal: the ones who leave the car running unlocked with a child inside are due to make the news? Thats why they call them convenience stores?

“Well, this is ANOTHER fine mess….”

A handsome garage attendant and a slim jim and they’ll be good to go.

Looks like someone needed LuAnn along. ;)

You shouldn’t leave keys unattended.

I would think that Bernice, being the Type A person she is, would belong to an auto club.

so many questions…..

As William Bendix always said on the 1950’s sitcom “The Life of Riley”, “What a revoltin’ development this is”.

Calm down ladies and just call AAA! : )

You should always lock your car when you leave. Even if “it’s just for a moment” or “I’ll be able to see it from in there”. So this is totally Bernice’s fault.

That’s right, Leviticus, whatever they do they shouldn’t call Luann — because she thinks they’re her friends, so she’ll try to help them. If Luann had locked her keys in the car and called one your obsession for help, Bernice would just lecture her about how stupid she is. If Luann called Delta, she would get another lecture about how she sholdn’t have wasted time driving a car to do something for herself, when she should have been doing something for others.

With friends like these, I hope Luann spends more time with her future sister in law.

how about embed a rfid chip in your body to unlock/lock, start the car, etc….? that way, no more keys

I work for Honda and you can’t lock the driver’s side door from the passenger side on those cars and they definitely won’t lock if the key is in the ignition

KenHam… I agree with you on this one…. the DRIVER should be the one who decides to lock or NOT lock the doors of a vehicle. The passenger should not presume to do that for the driver. Same thing with the radio IMHO…. the drive gets to decide the music/station/volume etc…. unless he/she decides to give that role over to a passenger.

Only the driver should lock the door, unless someone else has a key. Totally Delta’s fault.

Nooo waaay! (No offense to Mr. D.W., I just don’t wish to outdo anyone for length of comment or frequency, don’t wish for that notoriety, that’s just not my thing.)-—————My actual regular comments are not like that, it’s just that a few days ago, I just started doing “parody sponsors” on here, and “parody commercials” (which would sometimes make them long, like today’s…). It’s just that Luann’s comment board is almost as entertaining as the strip itself is, and informative (most other strip’s boards are like a PBS pledgeathon compared to here) and with so many varieties of us as commenters at different times of day, it just reminds me of a tv station here…and I try to make them tied in to whatever is going on in the day’s strip, of course… That, and I just have an affinity for puns and parodies….

Tune in for tomorrow’s thrill – packed episode, “Gee, I Smell Gas” or “Highway Roulette…” Creative!

A great team, indeed.Ladies and Gentlemen… Meet Laverne and Shirley 2.0!!!

“Any chance that this car has two different keys? One for the ignition and one for the doors? Tomorrow does Bermice realize she has the door key? Tune in tomorrow for the answer to these and other exciting questions!”

Still laughing!

Luann or no Luann…you two have created your OWN drama. ; p

Call the police and have them slim jim the car for free.

On a first date with a particular woman I locked the keys in the car. Talk about embarrassing! The local police came with their unlocker and many forms disclaiming them from any damage done by the unlocking. :(

Where do you live that you DON’T lock your car? Nothing of value inside? If it was stolen, unlocked with the keys in the ignition, it should invalidate your insurance coverage, in my opinion.

“Local UFO expert and TV repairman, Leon Stoop, told this reporter, “It was a death ray… I know it was. I kept tellin’ folks it was gonna happen sooner or later.”

Thanks for the breaking news… That was… (suppressing laughter)… informative… and… (<0)

OK, Luann, prove you are a big girl by taking your spare key out of your purse and get on your way.

All these comments about “most cars” and “modern cars” are entirely off base. Even brand new those features exist on some cars, not most. Bernice is driving a teenager car. That means it is early 90s at best. She said the radio is broken, which means it was never loaded enough to have a CD player. Any features it did have are as likely as not to be broken anyway.

The last time I locked my keys in the car I walked up to the police station, where they told me they could not legally do anything for me. They gave me the phone number for a local church where someone had a slim jim. They told me not to mention them because they also couldn’t legally admit that they knew he illegally had the tool and was illegally helping people with it.

I don’t have this problem with my car. It has an innovation that my alma mater put in its dorms about 50 years ago. You lock the door from the inside, then close the door, and the lock disengages. Kept a lot of us from locking ourselves out of our rooms. Same thing happens with my car, you close the door and the door unlocks (unless you hold the latch open as you close the door. It got me into the habit of locking the door from the outside, that way my keys are in my hand when the door locks.

IMHO, women travelling alone should always lock their vehicle at a gas station when leaving to go into the building to pay etc. in many locations it would be a simple matter for a person intent on crime to hide in the back of the car until the owner put it in motion and happened to stop in a more secluded location…I.e underground parking. Seniors refuelling motorhomes are also vulnerable. One such couple in Alberta was kidnapped right outside a very busy service station fuelling their motorhome and someone killed them both. Their bodies have never been found.

Before reentering their car at a service station etc. …even if it has been locked…people should walk around the vehicle and check the back seat and perhaps the lock on the trunk. Just because the police don’t approve the use of a slim jim, thieves don’t worry about their opinions.

Never insult your girlfriend, mom, grandmother because they are overly cautious and lock their car at every rest stop. Better safe than sorry was always my motto.

I’m on Delta’s side. At least the car’s still there.

Delta has a point.