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Originally Posted by Knut
I have myQ. It is great except when I am outside working and i get texts from my wife "why is the garage door open?"
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Just before Christmas, I had let my brother-in-law store my sister's present in my garage because it was this big, custom made wooden bench thing. He has the access code to my garage. No problem. Sometimes he takes my ladder, brings it back, etc.
A night or two later, with the bench thing far from my mind, I was down in the basement watching TV with my wife, but left my phone upstairs. "No big deal" I thought. "What am I going to miss? It is good to not be tethered to my phone sometimes."
My wife nodded off and woke up and saw on her phone that the garage door had opened and remained open (thanks MyQ!). Expecting the worst, I shot up, looked outside through the basement window to the garage (detached, out back) and saw lights on inside. That was not normal. Must be thieves and I must do something!
As I ran to the garage with a snow shovel, I could hear voices inside. Now I'm in full-on defend my turf mode and ready for action. I burst in and... there's my niece standing there. "Hey Uncle James!" Along with my brother-in-law and his dad.
If I had my phone with me in the basement, I would've noticed his texts asking me if they could come and get the bench, and then just saying that they were coming to get the bench, and then that they were in my garage getting the bench.
So to keep this (barely) on topic, it grinds my gears that I have my phone with me 95% of the time and miss nothing, but leave it upstairs once and I end up running to the garage with no jacket and a shovel ready to jab some filthy thieves in the face. And the MyQ thing works nicely.
/CoolStoryBro