Bertie Stith lost her car keys on Thursday. Here’s how it happened. She’d come outside with her hands full. Her husband Chris was filling the lawn mower with gas so she stopped to help him. She laid the keys on the back bumper of his Chevy Colorado pickup.
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Then Bertie forgot about them.
On Friday, Chris went to work in Cameron in his pickup. Amazingly, the poor keys rode nearly all the way on the bumper. They finally took a tumble at the top of a hill on Hwy. 69 just north of Cameron, with Chris none the wiser.
That same Friday morning Bertie needed her keys and couldn’t find them and instantly knew what she had done with them. She walked along the roadway for more than a mile from her home looking for the keys with no luck.
Now, here’s the rest of the story.
LaVeta Hale of Gallatin and a friend had been in Cameron on Saturday morning and bought some ceiling tile and home improvement supplies, which she was carrying in the back of a pickup. As she was leaving town on Hwy. 69 just north of Cameron, the wind caught some of the load and blew it out.
LaVeta and her friend stopped and LaVeta hopped out to secure the load and adjust the rear view mirror. Then she decided to walk to the top of the hill behind them, just to make sure they hadn’t lost anything else.
She looked down and saw a set of keys and thought, "Those are my keys!" Her keys, you say?
The plot thickens.
It turns out about a month before, LaVeta was shopping at Liberty and lost her keys. The ones she spied on the ground looked just like them. Then she realized that these keys could not possibly be hers. Hers were hopelessly lost in Liberty.
LaVeta picked the keys up and examined them more closely. The key ring had the same style of car key, but it also had a Dungy’s Market saver card and a Daviess County Library card.
LaVeta figured they most likely belonged to someone who lived in or near Gallatin.
Bertie is a Gallatin Publishing Company employee. When she came to work Monday, she put a "lost" classified ad in the paper. LaVeta called a few moments later to put in a "found" classified.
Wonder of wonder, LaVeta had found Bertie’s keys! The keys had taken a trip of over 20 miles.
And the rest is — well, just weird.