I took our car in for an oil change this morning, and since there were so many cars in front of the garage, I parked 30 seconds away in different parking lot. When I walked with the mechanic to collect the car, he asked me if it has a code. (This is much more common in Israel than I recall it being in the US: most, if not all, cars built after sometime in the '90s require both a physical key and a four-digit PIN to start.) I told him the car has no PIN, and as he reached toward the door handle with the key to get in and drive the car to his garage, I told him it was also unlocked. (Whoops.)
"You know how it is," I said, scrambling, "No code, unlocked... No one's going to steal my car."
"That's right: no one steals cars in Israel," the mechanic answered, "...They just borrow them for a little while!"
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