I have a little red pickup truck that I absolutely love. It’s an ’81 Dodge Ram 50–four cylinders, 4-wheel drive–nothing fancy, just a truck that goes from here to there with enough room for surfboards or construction stuff, and that’s it. Dented up enough that I don’t care all that much, yet still clean enough that I’m not embarrassed to drive it.
A to B and nothing else, thanks.
Rebuilt the motor and the transmission, so it’ll go for a while. The only problem I have is leaving surfboards in the back. I hate thieves, and I love surfboards. I refuse to walk into a grocery store with a surfboard under my arm and end up on @kookoftheday, so that makes morning surfs into home-wave-home-again trips, which is annoying. I’ve only got two surfboards that are short enough to fit in the cab of the truck, and even then, I hesitate to do it. Melted wax is hard to get out of the seats.
I rigged up a half-assed lock with a padlock and a short length of coated steel cable, but it basically just makes it annoying for someone to steal my shit instead of making it impossible to steal it.
Yesterday, Juan Hernandez was skimming through Kickstarter campaigns and found this thing. Only problem is that you’ve got to pull your fin out to get it in, which, while it’s not that much of a hassle, would get on my nerves after a while. Then, in the comments below it on Facebook, a reader (thanks, Brian Horan!) posted something way better. It’s called Dockslocks, and they’re not paying me to write this. I haven’t even tried one out. But god damn, sometimes the simplest things are the greatest things.
It’s pretty simple: a little fin key looking thing that opens up and clips onto your leash plug. Then, you run a cable through it, lock it to something stationary, and walk away free to go grocery shopping without ending up on Instagram. I’m just about to order one. If it doesn’t work, I’ll let you know, but it’s so simple it basically can’t fail. Unless, of course, there’s a bike thief walking around with a set of bolt cutters, but if someone really wants something, they’re going to get it. Might as well make them sweat for it.
