Stolen cell phone

[Tom Hannon]

During our recent 4 day Lifestyle Program, we were given a golf cart as part of the rental program. During our stay, I did all the driving. On the last day, I wanted Carol (my wife) to get the feel of a golf cart. She drove to the local pool andwe spent ten minutes chatting with a few people before we headed back to our place. Halfway down the block she realized someone had stolen her cell phone. (Not a good first impression, especially when we just bought a house the day earlier).
She cried out, "Someone stole my cell phone. Rather than wait for her to turn around, I jumped out of the cart and dashed back to the pool with my cell phone in hand and ready to dial her number, figuring to catch the thief as I'd hear the cell phone ringing.

As I got into the parking lot, I saw another cart looking just like ours. A cart that had a cell phone just like Carols in the same place Carol had put it. Yes, my friends, Carol drove away with the wrong cart.

[ajbrown]

You are just pulling my leg right? :a20:

[KathieI]

I can tell, Carol and I are going to get along very well. I hope you bought near me, we are going to be friends...
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[ajbrown]

I should not be too quick to judge, as I once spent 90 seconds trying to understand why my key would open my car in a mall parking lot :doh:. Lucky there was no alarm system....

[cherylncliff]

A gal after my own heart. I hope we're neighbors in Buttonwood - she sounds like someone I can identify with! :1rotfl:

[jblum8156]

I once drove my mother in her car to visit a friend. When we returned to the parking lot, I walked to her car only to see that the drivers side door was all smashed in like somebody had backed into it. Frantically trying to think how to tell her - she was way behind me - I suddenly realized that it wasn't her car but one just like it. What a relief!

[Tom Hannon]

AJ Brown asked ---"You are just pulling my leg right?"


No AJ. True story.

[Tom Hannon]

We are on Kincord Court- Facing The Redfish Run Golf Couse.

[k2at]

My experience was that as I approached my car I pushed the keypad to unlock my door which it did, but I also discovered it unlocked the car door next to my car. I tried it a few times and sure enough it activated the door on my car and the other one each time. What are the odds of that happening. NO! I have not won the lottery.

[mak44070]

When you eventually buy your own golf car, it might be advisable to have Carol's name in BIG print! :1rotfl:

p.s. I did it, too.

[Boudicca]

Hubby performed the same "wrong cart" trip on OUR LSV. However, we had previoulsly had a loooong and sarcastic conversation about "how stupid are people that they require their address to be printed on the cart's steering column". Next day, I received a phone call from the sales office "How are you, is everything ok" "Yes, I replied, its a lovely day in the Villages"... The salesperson responded "where is your cart?" of course I replied "In the garage"... There was a delicate intake of breath from the caller, and "Unfortunately, you have someone ELSES' cart and your's is being delivered back to your rental unit"..... Ooops. Who is STUPID now?.....

[pooh]

When you eventually buy your own golf car, it might be advisable to have Carol's name in BIG print! :1rotfl:

p.s. I did it, too.
:a20::a20::a20:

I understand completely! MANY years ago in the grocery store parking lot, I couldn't understand why the car door on my little yellow Honda wouldn't open, heck I had the key in the door lock and nothing was happening! Looking up, I saw it, MY little yellow Honda and not the one I had been trying to get into. Oh well... ;)

[Tom Hannon]

It looks like because all the golf carts in The Villages Lifetime Preview plan have the same key, this must happen a lot. If nothing else, the embarrasement will wear off but the laughter will grow.

[Julie]

Well now that is TOO funny!!!

One time when my son was about 4 years old he and I were walking out to our car in a strip mall parking lot. When I located "our car" I couldn't get the key to unlock it and was quite perplexed. That is when my son said "Mommy, I don't think this is our car." Lo and behold, the car I was trying to break into wasn't even the same make and model as ours (just for the record, it was the same color). We were parked two spaces away.

Ever since that time my cars have always had antenna balls so I can easily identify them in a parking lot.

[Russ_Boston]

Great story Tom.

When we were there two weeks ago on an LSV our first cart lost the lights and turn signal the first day. They came right over and gave us a new cart. That night on the way home from SS in the dark the same exact thing happened (what are the odd of that?). Limped home, with everyone yelling at us to turn on our lights. Next day we finally got a good one.

Weird but true!

[2BNTV]

I remember one time in a parking lot trying to open my car with my key and it wouldn't.

Same color, make and model. Wrong car!!!!!

Definitely, a Senior moment.

Will have my name put on my golf cart when I finally get there.

[tkret]

Recently, we took our cart to the Savannah Center to enjoy a performance. It was raining so we had the enclosure all the way down and around the vehicle. Following the performance and after spending a little time speaking with friends before saying "good night", it had stopped raining and we returned to the cart just in time to find a gentleman rolling up and securing the enclosure. Very nice of him and it saved me from doing it. I thanked him and as he walked away I could hear him murmur "Now I have to roll my own cover up now".

[rjm1cc]

Thanks for posting. Glade you figured it out before your wife became an golf cart fugitive.
I read one post where a person was relocating to another city. Visited the city and bought a home. When he returned to move in he tried to get into the house next door.

[Hancle704]

Just wait until you move in and go grocery shopping. You will learn as many of us have, that someone moves your car to a different section of the parking lot while you are in the store.:shrug:

[Chi-Town]

In May '09 during an LSP someone had driven off with my beige cart leaving their red one. This happened at the pool at Creekside Landing. Flagged down a Community Watch person who didn't seem too interested in my plight. I then called the sales office who said that this happens quite frequently and would send another cart out. No further questions. I was most impressed.

[The Great Fumar]

Hey you've really got to be careful around here as there are so many duplications........

I remember when I was a kid , We had two cows they were the same breed, same weight , same height, (12 hands) same markings , sounded the same. I swear that if one hadn't been black and the other one white , we never would have been able to tell them apart........

puzzled fumar.........:shrug:

[herbaru]

Tom,
Very funny but I noticed how you said "Carol" drove away with the wrong cart, you got in it too!


During our recent 4 day Lifestyle Program, we were given a golf cart as part of the rental program. During our stay, I did all the driving. On the last day, I wanted Carol (my wife) to get the feel of a golf cart. She drove to the local pool andwe spent ten minutes chatting with a few people before we headed back to our place. Halfway down the block she realized someone had stolen her cell phone. (Not a good first impression, especially when we just bought a house the day earlier).
She cried out, "Someone stole my cell phone. Rather than wait for her to turn around, I jumped out of the cart and dashed back to the pool with my cell phone in hand and ready to dial her number, figuring to catch the thief as I'd hear the cell phone ringing.

As I got into the parking lot, I saw another cart looking just like ours. A cart that had a cell phone just like Carols in the same place Carol had put it. Yes, my friends, Carol drove away with the wrong cart.

[handyman]

I have been to that pool ,was there a bottle of wine involved? lol

[EdV]

A big problem is that a lot of these carts use the same key for all their vehicles. I’m sure it has to do with maintaining these vehicles on a golf course. Individual keys would be a nightmare.

I’m sure you can have a unique lock put in to your cart but I don’t know where.

Anyone ?

[downeaster]

Anybody try to open a gate with their garage door opener? I did.

[Mikeod]

Yeah, but did it work??

We closed on our home in April, but didn't move here until October. After closing, I put the gate passes in a drawer in the new house so I wouldn't lose them in CA. When we pulled up to the gate to our village in October, I kept waving my Villages ID at the sensor and was upset it wouldn't open. Finally, the attendant at the gate opened it for me. My wife and I figured we were where we belonged. :a040:

[downeaster]

Yeah, but did it work??



Nope.

[Pturner]

Moral of the story: What would a senior's community be without Senior Moments!
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[pooh]

Moral of the story: What would a senior's community be without Senior Moments!
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Such an astute statement, bravo!...:BigApplause:

[logdog]

A big problem is that a lot of these carts use the same key for all their vehicles. I’m sure it has to do with maintaining these vehicles on a golf course. Individual keys would be a nightmare.

I’m sure you can have a unique lock put in to your cart but I don’t know where.

Anyone ?

You're right about golf course vehicles being keyed alike. Same logic probably applies to rental and Lifestyle carts. Thanks to reading posts on TOTV, I knew enough to ask when I bought my cart if I had a unique key. The Villages cart folks assured me that mine was. Good thing to ask if buying elsewhere.

[Boudicca]

The "borrowed" cart we drove home and safely garaged, was collected discreetly the following morning by a Community Watch driver, who left our original cart in its place. All done with a cheery, if ironic, smile and wave "Have a nice day!" :a040:

[graciegirl]

Moral of the story: What would a senior's community be without Senior Moments!
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Honestly for a good while, I thought it was your beauty.