Tom's Bee Tribulations in Hudson NY : Part 1

We're visiting Helen and Matt upstate this weekend. Tom's training for the NY Marathon and his plan calls for a long run. So he sets out for a 20 miler. About 5 miles in, he decides to take a loop through a nature preserve. He removes his little running backpack and hides it in a bush. When he comes back:

Yes. Tom snuggled his backpack on top of a hive of bees. His credit card and his cash and his water bottle are in the backpack. Luckily he still has his phone. He calls me. I say I'll drive over with another credit card, cash and water.

As I'm offering to do this, it all starts to feel a little perilous. Tom just got a new car and I've never driven it before. This car's filthy with new fangled gadgets. It's got one of those keys that's not really a key. It's a doohickey you put in your pocket and you press a button to start the engine. Plus it's got a crazy automatic gear shifter featuring multiple mystery buttons. And besides that, it's an automatic so you have to remember to press the brake while you're taking it out of park and things that are really weird if you have driven manual transmissions your whole life.

I go downstairs and grab a car key from Matt and Helen's kitchen island. Once outside, I approach the vehicle. I press the unlock button on the key thing. Nothing happens. I click again. Nothing. I click 19-40 more times. Still nothing.  I try to unlock the trunk.

Then I realize that it's Matt's car key, not Tom's. His car is in the garage with probably all of the doors open and the trunk unlocked.

I go back in the house and find the right key. I drive out to meet Tom and give him his stuff. Tom leans in the car window and says that we need to get a pole and a hook and some duct tape. He says that after he gets back from his run, we'll need to go over and retrieve his backpack from the belly of the beehive.

Part 2: The Extraction Plan: https://waitingtogetthere.blogspot.com/2019/09/toms-bee-tribulations-in-hudson-ny-part_22.html