I? Am An Idiot!

[carynb]

So, this story starts a week ago.

My apartment building has small, 3-car garages all around the first floor of the building. The only way to get into them is from the outside. There's a keypad beside each garage door, and every tenant has a remote. Either of these will open the door for their garage.

Last Thursday, when I tried to use the keypad to open my garage door, the battery was dead. It's been dying for a while, but I hadn't mentioned it to the super, since I could key in my code on the next garage over, and that would also open my door. So, as usual, I walked over to the next garage, to find that the batteries in that keypad had also died.

Sigh.

I knocked on the super's door, and he picked up a keypad/radio signal device that he keeps in his apartment and walked out with me to my garage, using that device to open the door. He told me he'd replace the batteries on the keypad, but that they die quickly in the cold. And asked my to start carrying my remote around with me instead of leaving it in the car (y'know, inside the garage), so that I could use that to open the door.

I bet you see where this is going, don't you?

That night, when we got to my place, lordzowy had to remind me to take the remote with me. I had opened the garage door with it, and then tossed it back into its usual spot on the dash. I've been pretty good since then - until last night.

When I left the apartment this morning, the remote wasn't on the little table thingy by the door, and it wasn't in my coat pocket - so it's in the car.

The super hasn't changed the batteries. Or, if he has, they're dead again.

Best of all, there's a note on his door - "Back on Thursday". So, he's back sometime today. He certainly wasn't there this morning.

Eventually, I gave up punching my code into a dead keypad, and went back inside to pick up a scarf, a toque, my iPod, and some TTC tokens. And took the TTC and York Region Transit to work.

At least it's warmed up a little. *sigh* This would have been awful a week ago. Today, It's just really, really annoying.

Comments

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Oops. And, of course, noone to blame but yourself. Of course, with your new house, this will no longer be a worry. Right? Yay!

[carynb.livejournal.com]

Reason #4,234 why I can't wait until my house is ready - access to the garage from inside the house. *g*

But, to be truthful, taking transit to work from my new place will be pretty bad. I won't really have an alternative if I can't drive. At least, living at Yonge & Eg, the transit option is there.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Yonge & Eg does leave you with easy transit, assuming work is on transit as well.

[crystal-diva.livejournal.com]

What a PITA! I can guaranteed, I'd have done precisely the same thing.

Next time, call me and I'll come get you. It's still too cold to be doing too much trekking here yet!

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

Ouch! And ((((hugs)))).

*D'oh*

[matthew-g.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Maybe you just need to stash batteries outside the house. :)

But it was quite crappy of him to have not changed the batteries before leaving. Booo.

[marahsk.livejournal.com]

Can you buy a second remote, so you can leave one in the car and the other on the table by the door?