I was about to drive to church on Sunday morning when I encountered a bit of an incident.  I was trying to unlock the car with my remote but it just wasn’t working.  I tried for about 5 minutes and it wasn’t working.  So I was thinking, “what can I do?”  The only thing I could think of was that I would put my key in the door, the alarm would go off, and I would turn off the alarm manually.  Ok, that was my only idea since I had somewhere to be.

I stick my key in the door and my alarm goes off, I go to turn off the alarm except it doesn’t turn off!  So now my car alarm is going off very loudly, I have the keys in my hand, the door open, and am basically helpless.  I try pressing all sorts of buttons, but the alarm is just BLARING.  At one point, I somehow I got the alarm off.  So I proceed to stick my key in the ignition.  BAD IDEA!  BEEP BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOP BOOP.  Next thing you know, some people who live down the street get home and they’re just standing outside their garage watching me.  They probably thought I was breaking in the car.  So I use large motions to show that I am trying to press the buttons on my remote.  So then I just look at them and shrug.  The lady goes in the house but the man just stands about 100 feet away staring at me.  I wonder what he was thinking.  Maybe he was wondering if I was breaking in or maybe he was wondering if I needed help.  He finally left.

So with no idea what to do, I call my roommate and wake him up to ask for help.  He says he’ll come out and look at it.  I tried clicking the remote again and it worked!  Whew.  Car unlocked.  Alarm off.  He said my battery was probably dead.  I thought so too.  But he went and checked the battery and it was fine!!

Sheesh, all that trouble for some mysterious reason?  Dang, I hope that never happens again.  It was quite nerve wrecking!