I just traded in my fifteen year old car. It had a nice, simple, flat metal key that worked just fine, and fit nicely in my pocket. The new car has an electronic key fob the size of a small pot roast! Where the heck am I supposed to keep that? At home, sure, I can throw it on a shelf. But at work, at a store, at the park, I have to keep it on my person somehow. I don’t carry a purse, and only occasionally have a backpack on me. So I have to stuff this MONSTER into my trouser pocket where it makes a lump like a stage-four goiter.
I’m hoping someone has come up with a solution for this annoying first-world problem. Thanks!
The fob to my 2017 VW fits in the front pocket of my pants no problem. In the same pocket (and about the same size as) my inhaler. Of course, I’ve made an effort to get rid of any keys/ID cards I don’t need, so I have only 2 other keys and one card.
Do you wear really tight pants or something?
5 years ago, I woulda been with you, questioning why anyone would need or even want car key technology more advanced than a mechanical car key. Now, I love not having to take my fob out of my pocket to open or start my car. I hope your present dissatisfaction is short-lived.
My used car came with only one of these and they cost a lot to duplicate. So I just keep it hidden in the car attached to a string. Now if you want to lock your car doors you can probably have the key duplicated to create the simple flat key you can keep your pocket, assuming the car just uses mechanical motion to open the door–not electronics.
Same here. I hate that wad of keys in my pocket, as it’s either digging into my leg or I’m banging my hand on it while walking. Now it hangs off a belt loop.
Mine fits in my pocket fine as well, but I understand women’s pants generally have smaller pockets than men’s. And now I am honestly uncertain of the OP’s gender. The username sounds masculine, but then the OP says “I don’t carry a purse”, which seems like something a man wouldn’t feel the need to mention as it would just be considered a given that men don’t normally carry purses. Unless that was meant as a joke.
And I shoule add, I love my newfangled car key. I never need to take them out of my pocket at all. I can just walk up to my car with the key in my pocket, press a button on the door handle, and it unlocks. Then I get in, press a button, and it starts. No need to fish around in my pocket and pull out my keys.
Thanks; I’ll probably just get used to it like all of life’s other indignities.
That would probably work for many cars, but not mine. It doesn’t even have key-holes in the door.
That looks a lot like mine. I’m probably overreacting.
I’m a man. I suppose I should have said “as a man, I don’t carry a purse” but I figured the not-carrying-a-purse part was all that was really relevant.
I feel confident in writing that my pants are skinnier than OP’s and the only time I’ve had a problem was when two of the big fobs are locked together on a too-short steel wire when renting a vehicle. The short wire loop doesn’t let the fobs lay flat next to each other so it’s like a half closed jack knife in my pocket.
I used to keep my car key on the same keychain as my house key, the key to my filing cabinet, the key to my mom’s house, etc. Now it’s too large. I put it in my pocket, but it’s not attached to anything. And it’s not in my pocket when I am at home.
My key fob and giantish key are on a wrist strap. So I wear it like a bracelet. No other keys on it. I don’t carry a bag in a store. Just my card/cash and car-key/fob.
