D'Oh!

(Well it seems that so far this week I'm sharing a series of small mishaps from my life because here's another!)

If you have one of those new fangled (ish... I guess they've been around a while now) key fobs where you press a button to lock/unlock your car, you'll probably have experienced when the battery starts to go.

I've been noticing that my car fob needed to get closer and closer to unlock or lock my car so I went ahead and re-watched the video tutorial (I've done it before but forget the exact method) and grabbed the replacement battery (yay me for having one on hand!) out of my "junk" drawer and I replaced the battery in my key fob WOO HOO!

The next morning I went out to my car to go to work and I was pretty sleepy from a poor night's sleep and so it was annoying that my fob wasn't opening my car as I got closer and closer.  Until I was right next to my car and it still wasn't opening it which is when I realized that I hadn't CHECKED that battery replacement the night before and it apparently was a dead battery, ARGH!

Y'all?  In all the years I have owned my lovely car, I don't think I've ever used the key to get in or out!

I started to get a little panicky (see above re not a good night's sleep so not super strong in the thinking department) and I ran back upstairs for my secondary fob, upon which I had put a note saying "slightly broken" and in my frazzled state I thought this meant it didn't work at all (found out later that night that it did but didn't think to test it at the time) so I thought to google how to get in to my car without the key fob, AND I grabbed ANOTHER replacement battery (I had two, who knew) and the two screwdrivers I needed and threw them in my lunch bag to deal with at work.

So out I went again to my car and worried that I might accidentally set off the alarm (that I also don't know how to turn off if I don't have my fob working and can't get IN to the car to start it... I think starting it turns off the alarm???) I put the key into the lock and turned and.... nope.  Door wouldn't open.  Tried again.  NOPE!  OMG.  I started to freak out (quietly).  Would I have to call in sick because I am literally unable to get in to my car? 

I got myself to slow down enough to try to re-read the instructions and I had been turning they key the wrong way! (There is a lock and an unlock direction and I had been turning it to lock!)

So I gave it a turn in the OTHER direction and the door opened and I got myself to work with plenty of time left over (since I leave kind of stupid early to be honest but that's a post for another time) and then I swapped out the new dead battery with the new not dead battery and then I ACTUALLY CHECKED to make sure it worked and then we all lived happily ever after and on my way home I bought another new battery to keep on hand and I hope it doesn't drain itself by the time I have to change it out but I also hope that next time I do change out the battery I remember to test it before I try to use it!