We use an electronic card to get into work. It works by holding the card near a thing.
When I get home from work the first thing I do is hold my card next to the key hole.
I wish we could say things like this here without having to make a thread of it. I often have little anecdotes that I want to share. but making a thread is a big deal. so they go unsaid.
(And we hit 4000)
I should mention - It’s a habit. I know full well that the card won’t open my front door.
i have one of those things to get into work too. Have never tried to use it to get into my house though 
The main door at work has a key pad lock. I frequently find myself standing in front of it with my house keys in my hand, wondering what the hell I’m playing at.
I have one key card for work, and another for my apartment building. I foten hold the wrong one up to the thingy. then wonder why the damn thing is not giving me the opening beep.:smack:
I try using my remote key (for the car) to get in the door to the house. Unless by some odd chance I happen to be thinking when I get to the door.
and review is my friend 
I frequently tried to gain access to my office using my bus card if that is of any comford Lobsang?
I occaisionally try to put my car key into my door lock, even though they look nothing alike.
Aren’t we at an age where keys are no longer needed? I wish I had some damned keypad thingy or something. Would you techno-geeks get busy on it?! I know theres commercial stuff available but I want one for my house.
We were promised flying cars by now. Give us something, sheesh!
I did the same thing the other day when I got home. Took almost a full 20 seconds before I realized I was standing there looking like an idiot waiting for the entry beep to come.
Self checkout machine at the grocery store: “Thank you for shopping at Ingles!”
Bruce_Daddy: “You’re welcome.”
I try to use my remote for the car all the time on my house door and on other people’s cars. I just automatically reach inside my purse and pull my keys out, no matter where I’m going.
At work I use a touch-screen cash register. The other day I went to shut down my computer and found myself poking the ‘OK’ button on the monitor about four times before I went “woah, you’ve been working too much.”
I pull my keys out about a block before I get there (walking). Sometimes I do the same for other people’s houses.
Kind of similar – Mum worked for years in a hospital communications room, and she was one of the Voices you hear in hospital paging doctors, and she did ambulance shouts and all that – after one harrowing day at work, she started off a mealtime prayer by paging God.
This is the same woman who put macaroni in cake mix, so I suppose it’s understandable.
Kind of similar – Mum worked for years in a hospital communications room, and she was one of the Voices you hear in hospital paging doctors, and she did ambulance shouts and all that – after one harrowing day at work, she started off a mealtime prayer by paging a doctor.
This is the same woman who put macaroni in cake mix, so I suppose it’s understandable.
When using the TTY-to-voice relay (system where operator tells hearing person what deaf person types, then types what hearing person says so deaf and hearing can talk on the phone):
To deaf person I’m talking with: I’ll talk you to later. Goodbye.
To operator: And thank you, operator.
Everytime. I always thank the operator without thinking. She must type it, 'cuz I said it and that’s the rules. :o
Some days, I’ll be on the phone all day, then when I get home I’ll answer the phone “This is sperfur, may I help you?” Really throws people off when they’re calling you at home.
Or I’ll call someone and forget that I called them. I’ll make small talk for a little while, waiting for them to get around to telling me what they want, then I’ll ask them, “So, what can I do for ya?” “You called me…” “I did? What did I want?”
I guess most of the dumb things I do are on the phone…
When the boys are watching DVDs or videos, the TV screen goes blue before you load the film. I was walking by the parlor and saw the blue screen and flipped because I thought I had another Windows problem to deal with. This doesn’t happen so much since we switched to W2K Pro at work 
I am also a phone idiot!
I answer my home phone with my work blurb, and visa-versa.
And because I have a phone next to my calculator I often go to ring someone pushing the numbers on the calculator and normally get the whole way through the number before I realise.
I also do this to the phone when I want to use the calculator. I once called someone I know doing this… very wierd!