Okay. This was weird.
Yesterday afternoon, I tried to pick up my big box of fabric that had come and was being held at the post office. But it was raining, it was crappy, it's hard to get into the post office lot (it's on the corner of two very busy streets). I drove down there just to find someone PARKED in the entrance - so I could not safely get in.
So I went home. I garaged my car, figuring I would not feel like going out again. But then the rain let up, I had finished my piano practicing for the day, and so I decided to try again.
And I could not get the garage door to open.
(Yeah, everything seems to break at once, doesn't it?)
By good fortune, I had found the existence of a button to open it - my garage is weird; it used to be (I guess) much longer than it is; one of the people who owned the place before I did had part of the garage walled off and turned into a sort of potting shed. The button was in there - so at least I was able to open my garage and get the car back out.
I tried changing the battery on the remote - that was my first thought, "Oh, the battery's dead." No go. I even climbed up (not a good thing when your ears are plugged from having a cold and screwing up your already-bad balance) and looked at the unit to see if the numeric code on the remote could have got shifted somehow. No.
And no, the power wasn't out.
So, I called the garage door place. It was nearly five so the receptionist said she'd have the guy call me tomorrow (today).
This morning, driving out, by force of habit, I hit the button on the remote.
The door closed. I sat there for a moment, gobsmacked, and hit the button again. The door opened. And again. It closed again.
Somehow, it apparently fixed itself. I don't know how but I do have to call the door place and tell them to cancel the call. So at least that's $100 or so I saved myself.
(I suppose it could have been "rebooted" in a very primitive sort of way: I unplugged the unit when I went to look at its code, and plugged it back in but didn't try the opener again after I had done that.)
I do still need to call the electrician though and see if he can come out and fix the switch to the bedroom light....
3 comments:
You ever get the feeling that things like the door opener are sitting there quietly snickering at you?
Sheesh.
Guaranteed, if you'd got a repair person out there it would work perfectly for them, too.
Glad your opener is working again. I recently had to replace my garage door opener and I can tell you that you saved way more than $100 if you had had to replace it.
But your story reminded me of a day a few winters ago. It was bitter cold with snow on the ground. I was scheduled to deliver flowers for a local florist. I couldn't get the door open. My house faces south and later in the day after the sun had shown on it for a while, the door opened. Sometimes these things are smarter than we are. It knew it was too cold to be out in the weather.
i have to reset my mom's tv like that, occasionally. unplug it, then plug it back in, and then it works. glad to hear it DOES work.
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