Saw this at the supermarket yesterday…

[Whoops]

Yes, Pdedse, number three. I speak from experience. Following one of my key-on brain farts, I called my wife to bring some jumper cables (AMA offered to tow my bike to a nearby shop, but not jump start). While I was waiting for my wife, I noticed that I was at the top of a gentle slope. I rolled the bike down the hill and bump-started it. I let it run for a while until my wife appeared, whereby I shut the bike off, kissed and hugged her for coming to my rescue, and pretended to to jump-start my bike.

This reminds me of a situation that occured a while back. My wife and I were shopping at Fashion Island, a posh Newport Beach shopping center. We don't shop there regularly, but it's by the coast, cooler than where we live, so a nice place to hang out in the summer.

While walking along the edge of the parking lot, a Singer Porsche 911 rumbled past. I watched as it inexplicably did not turn toward the "millionaire's row" valet area, but instead headed up an aisle of the regular parking lot. In an absolute Pavlovian response, I immediately drifted away from my wife and followed the car. I noticed that another man had done the exact same thing. Our wives were probably looking at each other, shrugging.

The two of us came upon the Singer, parked between two plebiean regular cars. It was staggeringly beautiful, set up like a '73 RS. While we drooled, we noticed that the window was down, and the key was in the ignition. We looked at each other and said "What should we do... we can't just leave it like this!" Should we reach in, pull the key out, and tuck it under the coco floor mat? How would he know?... Should we just stand guard next to the car? About 15 minutes later, the owner showed up. We told him that he had left the key in it.

"Yeah, I know. I do that with all of my Porsches." Crank... rumble... vroom, and off he went.

Guessing he then turned towards "millionaire's row" valet area.

[Gone in 60]

The valet area was taken over for to-go food pickup during the pandemic. It's become the valet row again. Typically Rolls, Ferraris, McLarens and the like are left at the curb for display, while lesser cars are whisked away to a garage somewhere. There's one car that shows up regularly... a little Fiat Jolly with wicker seats and a fringed surrey top that is always left on display. It's quite a site squeezed between the typical modern Italian hardware.

[Frulk_imp]

Doesn’t appear to be a Dyna. Looks like an Iron 883 Sportster. I’ve left the keys in the ignition a few times on all my bikes. It happens. Last one was on the Road King. About 6 weeks ago after a little over an hour in a restaurant I came out to find I hadn’t turned off the bike and left it on. Used Kill switch. Had to have wife come across town with cables so I could jump start it.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

I usually turn off the key, take off my gloves, and lay them over the key. Sometimes I remember, sometimes not.

[emptysea]

Often forget my key. Not usually worried about it unless I'm going to be leaving the bike for a long time. There's a ratio: Y:X/30
Y= the estimated time I will be spending at the location.
X= the approximate number of steps I am away from my bike when I realize I've left the key in it.
30 = my average number of steps per minute (90) divided by the number of trips back and forth between my bike and my point of remembrance (3).

Alternatively, if I know the time I left the bike, then the ratio is Y:3X where Y is the amount of minutes in the location and X is amount of time it took to get from my bike to the point of remembrance.

If the ratio is greater than 5:1, I will return to retrieve the key.

Also, I most frequently forget the key when using the helmet lock and I can forget it both when locking or unlocking the helmet -- I can't tell you the number of times I've geared up and saddled up only to realize that the key is in the helmet lock.

[Gone in 60]

My worst offense is realizing that there's something in the glovebox of my car that I need. Go to car, turn on map lights, rummage around glove box, retrieve item. Forget to turn off map lights, don't drive car for two weeks. Jumpstart car.

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

#3, always. And, it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. And, maybe the guy left the key in the ignition on purpose and is hoping for an insurance settlement.

[Gone in 60]

So, along the lines of vehicles being stolen, I thought this was fun...
We used to keep a Ford truck parked behind our office for errands. We're in a sketchy part of town, and it was stolen a few times and recovered, and finally stolen for good.
The boss replaced it with his old beat up Honda van, which we gutted to use as a hauler. It fits the neighborhood, but he's concerned about it being stolen as well.

Yesterday, I rigged it with a switch to cut off the fuel pump trigger wire from the ECU. The switch is buried under a particularly soft piece of interior trim, which can be pressed to activate the pump. I told the staff that I'd pay $50 to anyone who can find the switch, but that I'd charge $50 to show them where it is. I can use the $50.