Garage Door Opener
Today's Arlo and Janis comic strip is making a joke based on how far away you can be and open your garage door, or unlock your car, with the electronic device. It reminds me:
We had an electronic garage door opener in the early '60s. One afternoon when I was home alone, I heard the garage door open. I thought Marlin was coming home, but when I checked, no one was there. I closed the door and went back upstairs. The door opened again. I think that several times the door was raised and lowered. I was puzzled and concerned.
When Marlin did come home a while later, I told him about this baffling malfunction of the automatic garage door. He knew the answer to this puzzle. He had been talking to the fellows at the firehall down the street from us. While he talked to them, he'd been punching the button on the remote door opener. The signal had carried that far, though he hadn't expected that it would.
A fun toy, --for sure.
Submitted by
NJ
at 2/20/2005 11:26:22 AM- Nothing? In the driveway? That's odd,unless the battery is low or something. I think my husband was inside the "firebarn" when he was playing with the gadget. He had no idea he was opening and closing the door.
Submitted by
mary lou
at 2/20/2005 2:48:08 PM- When I lived in the Aleutians, all of the houses were exactly alike, so you drove down the street pushing the button on your remote until a door opened and then you knew you were home. They built a set of new houses, and there were only four remote codes, that made for a LOT of strange looks as you walked into the house!! LOLOL TRUE STORY!
Submitted by
James
at 2/20/2005 3:06:03 PM- Back in my days in the Air Force, there was equipment at my station in a B-52 that we were not allowed to turn on at high altitude or near large cities. We were told the reason for the prohibition was because it would emit at the frequency of many remote controls. It supposedly could cause people's garage doors to open.
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J. Washburn Stoker
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I've often wondered how far the signal reached, yet sometimes, I'll be sitting right in the driveway, pressing the button, and 'nothing'. :)