RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

WHO AND HOW?

There must be a rational explanation for it all, but the parties involved, after some weeks of hard thinking, have been unable to find it, and are still wondering how it all happened. Whatever view one takes of such matters, the conclusion that some people are born lucky is inescapable. From the West Coast came a married couple, by car, bound for Christchurch, Lyttelton, Wellington. In Christchurch, they had a meal with friends.

another young married couple. The tourists told their Christchurch friends to use their car during the week-end they were away in Wellington. The Christchurch pair drove their own car to Lyttelton with the West Coasters aboard, and the West Coast man said, on the point of a hurried departure, that here was the key for his car. When the Christchurch people returned from Lyttelton she could not find the key the West

Coast man bad given her. But . . . she did discover, on the floor of her own car, a key which fitted the West Coast man's car. How on earth, she wondered, had his spare key got into her car; it was obviously not the original one, which had a distinctive fitting . . . When the West Coasters returned, the Christchurch woman told them what had happened,, and preferred the key. she had found. The West Coast man had never seen the key in his life . . .