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May. 19th, 2015 06:55 pm*sigh* [grin]
I've been looking for a new battery for my car remote for a few weeks now. A CR-2032, fairly standard battery. Radio Shack didn't have it. K-Mart didn't have it. Wal-Mart didn't have it.
I finally found it at Albertson's.
Yesterday I literally cut the package open while I was at work and installed it. I go to leave for the day, and the remote doesn't work.
Crap. I couldn't imagine that the battery had sat on the shelves for very long as the store has only been open for a couple of months.
I don't want to mess with the thing when I get home, so I wait until I'm back at work this morning to take the remote off my key ring, pry it apart with a knife, pull out the battery, put the old one back in. Fortunately it works well enough, I was replacing it because I noticed the range had decreased a bit.
I go to put the new battery back in its package to return it to the store. And I turned the battery over.
There was a sticker covering the back of the battery so it wouldn't discharge as rapidly as it sat on the shelf. Thus, it could not make contact with the terminal springs in the remote as the sticker was a plasticized insulator.
*facepalm*
Remove sticker, take remote off the key ring and take it apart YET AGAIN, replace battery, test it BEFORE putting it back on the key ring, it works great.
I'd never seen a sticker seal on this type of battery before. And it just happened that I'd not needed to turn the battery over or I would have seen the sticker.
There's an episode of Magnum, P.I. where Magnum saves a cat, I think it happened off-camera/between episodes. Agatha is the head of the Honolulu Cat Fanciers Society, or somesuch, and they give Magnum an award for saving the cat. He gets up to give a little speech that goes something like this: "I love cats. We had cats when we were kids, and we used to play this game called Spin The Cat. We'd wait until Mom waxed the kitchen floor, then we'd put the cat on the ground and spin it around and around. No, honestly, the cat loved it!" People are looking increasingly aghast. Scene cuts to Agatha and Magnum walking in the parking lot, Magnum looking kind of dejected. Agatha says "Mister Magnum, I believe in everyone's life that we are allotted only a certain number of times to make complete and utter fools of ourselves. Think of it as you've just reduced your number by one."
(and I just discovered that my spell checker in Firefox stopped working. Again. *sigh*)
I've been looking for a new battery for my car remote for a few weeks now. A CR-2032, fairly standard battery. Radio Shack didn't have it. K-Mart didn't have it. Wal-Mart didn't have it.
I finally found it at Albertson's.
Yesterday I literally cut the package open while I was at work and installed it. I go to leave for the day, and the remote doesn't work.
Crap. I couldn't imagine that the battery had sat on the shelves for very long as the store has only been open for a couple of months.
I don't want to mess with the thing when I get home, so I wait until I'm back at work this morning to take the remote off my key ring, pry it apart with a knife, pull out the battery, put the old one back in. Fortunately it works well enough, I was replacing it because I noticed the range had decreased a bit.
I go to put the new battery back in its package to return it to the store. And I turned the battery over.
There was a sticker covering the back of the battery so it wouldn't discharge as rapidly as it sat on the shelf. Thus, it could not make contact with the terminal springs in the remote as the sticker was a plasticized insulator.
*facepalm*
Remove sticker, take remote off the key ring and take it apart YET AGAIN, replace battery, test it BEFORE putting it back on the key ring, it works great.
I'd never seen a sticker seal on this type of battery before. And it just happened that I'd not needed to turn the battery over or I would have seen the sticker.
There's an episode of Magnum, P.I. where Magnum saves a cat, I think it happened off-camera/between episodes. Agatha is the head of the Honolulu Cat Fanciers Society, or somesuch, and they give Magnum an award for saving the cat. He gets up to give a little speech that goes something like this: "I love cats. We had cats when we were kids, and we used to play this game called Spin The Cat. We'd wait until Mom waxed the kitchen floor, then we'd put the cat on the ground and spin it around and around. No, honestly, the cat loved it!" People are looking increasingly aghast. Scene cuts to Agatha and Magnum walking in the parking lot, Magnum looking kind of dejected. Agatha says "Mister Magnum, I believe in everyone's life that we are allotted only a certain number of times to make complete and utter fools of ourselves. Think of it as you've just reduced your number by one."
(and I just discovered that my spell checker in Firefox stopped working. Again. *sigh*)
