Meme Week Kick-Off: Key Party

To boost ratings, cable channels do stunts like running theme weeks. Discovery Channel has Shark Week. Other channels have done other theme weeks as well. I’m pretty sure every week is Hitler Week on the History Channel.

My own version of this is going to be Meme Week. For this to be a true Meme Week, the idea would have to spread to other bloggers, but I really don’t have than kind of pull or influence. For now it’s just me coming up with a clever way to purge myself of a meme backlog. If you out there have any memes that I need to be aware of please let me know.

Readers of this blog know that I am very ambivalent about memes, mostly because so many are so lame. nearly all of them sound like they were written by bored seventh graders, which they probably were. The best ones follow a theme and are intriguing and thought provoking. The worst of these are just a list of astoundingly random questions, and we will get to some of those this week.



The first meme is one I got from Harmonica Man and is very similar to the What’s In Your Wallet/Purse/Pocket meme I did awhile back. That one called for a picture and description of all the jetsam and flotsam you carry around with you. I included a my keys as part of that list.

For this meme, Badoozie is asking for pictures of your key ring. I have no idea what she wants them for, but she has collected plenty already.

I keep my car keys on a separate key chain for security while valet parking and the like. Because I do it so often. It’s just easier to keep track of. I recently got a new Hyundai SanteFe to match my wife’s Hank Azaria Hyundai Azera. Since they are both from the same manufacturer, the keys, and even worse, the remotes are very similar. Hers has three buttons on the front and mine has only two. Nonetheless, I am always accidentally locking or unlocking her car doors or trunk, much to her annoyance. Even more annoying is that I seem to randomly set off the panic switch of one or the other vehicle rather frequently. And the horn to my car is LOUD.

The other key chain has a house key, a mailbox key, and a safety deposit box key. I have never used the safety deposit box key. My wife works near the bank and can get there during banking hours when we need our passports or other important papers. I would take that key off the chain, but then I would never find it if and when I ever needed it.

The leather key fob is a Cub Scout project my son did years and years ago. You can't see it, but there is an eagle's head impressed into it. These are the kinds of trinket that dads get stuck with the rest of their lives.

I used to have a key to the office, but at my new job they have security cards instead. So I was able to lose a key off the chain, but gained a proximity card to fit into my already Castanza-esque wallet. Since I get to work before the receptionist arrives, I get to do the butt bump every morning to the card reader to get in the door. Not a maneuver you want to watch.

There, that was a relatively easy and fun meme. Show us your keys. Even better mail us a wax impression of them with a street address and a GoogleMap® print-out of directions to your house.

BlatantMemeSoliciting: You’ll never here me say this any other time of the year: Hit me with your memes.