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What do you mean, cutting keys and installing

locks? I was a locked car specialist.

Can't you just use a coat hanger for that?

Yeah, you can.

But only if the car was built before 1982.

Some of these new lock systems are so complicated

I had to take a special training course.

They have all these tools,

like the swan key. It's like a bird.

That's a pretty strange job

for a girl, isn't it?

Actually, it's mostly women that do it.

I mean, the company likes to hire women

because they don't panic the way men do.

They can handle the pressure.

What pressure?

Think about it. No,

usually there's nobody in the car.

But sometimes people get locked

in their cars,

And people get really freaked out

when they're locked in a small space.

Okay, but can't you just

open the lock from the inside?

Well, what about a dog?

Can a dog unlock a door?

One time I had to get

this poodle out of a Mercedes.

And it was during this heat

wave a couple years ago.

And this woman kept screaming

at me that Winston was gonna die.

The dog's name was Winston Churchill.

It was a really tricky lock,

and I was working on it.

And she - She kept grabbing on to

my arm and telling me to hurry up.

I wanted to punch her.

One time... I arrived

at this car early in the morning,

And there was a man trapped inside-

An old man.

He'd been in there all night.

He had Alzheimer's.

He thought it was Chicago

and it was 1932. God.

When I finally got him out, he was so

dehydrated he had to drink six glasses of water.

The scariest one

- There was this time I was driving...

Home, actually.

I don't think I was working. And I came

across this accident that had just happened.

There was nobody there.

So I called 911,

And I went over to the car wreck...

And there was this woman

trapped in the car.

But I didn't wanna leave her in the car,

you know. She was unconscious.

I couldn't tell... if she was really

badly hurt or what was going on.

And I started to work on the lock

to try and get her out.

It was just her and I, and I kept

looking at her through the glass thinking,

I could save her life.

You have the bad gun again.

Just keep moving. No.

Keep going. Okay. Okay.

Don't back away. But if you die,

aren't you just dead?

I mean, how can you keep going

if you can die?

Just try and pick up

that big gun because-

- I didn't know that.

- You've got it again.

But I didn't pick it up.

It just - Aaah!

Oh, my God! I killed him!

No, that was you.

No, no, no, I was doing so good.

Hold on, hold on.

You were doing okay. You're pretty good,

actually. Seriously, you're pretty good.

No, I know. I'm really good. No,

for a beginner you're pretty good.

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