As I have mentioned in a previous blog or two, giving unsolicited advice is not a practice I often undertake. Today, however, I feel the need to do so as a public service.
This is pretty straightforward
advice: Don’t attempt to change the battery in your car’s key fob at 5:00 in
the morning. I did just that yesterday morning, with rather alarming
results—literally.
My fob, like many, snaps together.
This sounds pretty simple but is, in practice, something akin to trying to open
a child-proof pill bottle while wearing mittens. First off, you need to pry
apart the outer shell and then pry apart the electronics board inside to access
and replace a pair of batteries. Once that is accomplished, the pieces must be
snapped together again—the equivalent of assembling furniture with one hand.
After finally managing to get the fob
mostly snapped together, I grabbed a pair of channel-lock pliers and
leveraged them to clamp down on the edge of the fob.
Big mistake.
The fob did snap together but also
initiated the honk alarm on my car in the garage. When I tried to press the
button to stop the horn, the fob was totally unresponsive, and the horn
continued to blare at regular intervals. In a panic, I swept into my den to
retrieve the spare fob, which had to be fished from inside a glass vase that
holds a multitude of keys and fobs. Eventually, I found the fob and stopped the
racket.
Did I mention Desiree was sleeping at
the time? Well, after two minutes of horn honking, I had cured that.
—Mitchell Hegman
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