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Sorry About Locking Your Keys in the Trunk

by Chris Hagerbaumer Goodbye, trusty old Toyota Tercel. Built in 1991, purchased by me in 1996, you served me well for 18 years. I had made it to my thirties without owning a car, but—ironically—when I landed my job as a transportation reform advocate for Oregon Environmental Council, I needed you to ferry me back and forth between Salem and the office and all across the state, at least till OEC got a company car a few years later. Sorry about locking the keys in your trunk on a Forest Service road. We may have had to bond with Sasquatch had we not figured out how to jimmy the back seat enough to reach into the trunk. Sorry about leaving the ...