Originally posted by IRingTwyce:
Originally posted by RT and his SE:
It must be tough to be scarred all the time or maybe it's just paranoia.



When I have 3rd degree burns all over my body, I'll let you know if it's tough to be scarred [sic] all the time. In the mean time, 10 seconds to remove a key from a ring is not being scared, it's being prudent.




Maybe TGO, jtthursby, and I are the only ones here that feel this way, but I personally am amazed and baffled by how sorry everyone feels for someone who did something blatantly stupid and then was surprised when something bad came of it. I'll say this again. Yes, it is sad this happened to her, but my level of give-a-sh!t for her is seriously hampered by her lack of any common sense. (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this comment: If the valet had been allowed his way and HAD killed her, I think she should have been nominated for a Darwin Award!)

It takes maybe 15 seconds to remove a key from the ring, it's not what I'd call time consuming. As to the comment that she saw him every day and therefore was comfortable with him...it's laughable. This was not a man that she had spent ANY time with outside of work, or at work for that matter. Her amount of daily interaction appears to have been handing him a car key and taking a numbered slip of paper in return. Regardless of seeing him every day, she still did not know him!

Through my business, I often see the same people on a daily basis. I may know their names, know what they drive, might even interact with them often, but wouldn't give any of them my house keys for 15 minutes, much less the duration of an 8 hour work shift. In the 8 years I've been lettering vehicles for a living, I cannot remember a single instance when a customer left their car/truck with more than the ignition key. Up until this instance, if someone HAD left me their entire key ring, they would be safe in their home at night because I'm not a psychotic lunatic. Now that this has happened to this woman, you can bet I'll be chasing that customer down in the street to give them back all their keys except the one single key I need.

I know I sound like a broken record here, but it is just PLAIN COMMON SENSE we're talking about here!!!! :deep breath: [/soapbox]



And without a level of trust from your customers you wouldn't have a business.

Everybody, everyday at some point has to trust another human being. There are any number of ways that this could blow up in your face. The person making you burger, the guy who used the restroom before you,(maybe the same person )did the mechanic who fixed your brakes do the job right, when the cable guy shows up is he gonna bend you over the credenza and install something other than HBO? You might as well blackout all the widows in the house and start buying cats!
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