The Panic Button
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
Canada
January 22, 2017 8:18am CST
For the second time in a week my husband has gone to the YMCA around 6AM, walking out the door with no lights on outside and instead of pushing the unlock button on his car key he hits the panic button.
The car, a van is not a quiet and unnoticed vehicle when its screaming in our neighborhood that early in the morning. I can imagine our neighbors were not happy.
You could say its my fault. I insist the cars be locked when we leave them out. He's not used to that yet... we found one morning someone has ransacked our cars looking for money.
We never leave anything of value in our cars but I want the cars locked up at night.
Have you accidentally or on purpose pushed the panic button?
The only time I ever pushed the button I was in a large parking lot and I couldn't find my car...
Until I hit the panic button.
The photo is my back yard - heavy fog for the last two days with weather warnings.
The photo is my back yard - heavy fog for the last two days with weather warnings.21 people like this
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
22 Jan 17
That is country living. My daughter doesn't lock her doors either. Mine are locked...
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@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate I lock up if Vince is away - not that either of us would be a match for a burglar. :)
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Jan 17
@syeow1 Oh I understand, yes it is an interesting photo. Thank you.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
1 Feb 17
I am sorry to hear that your cars were gone through. I am sure your hubby will grow accustomed to pressing the right button. Of course, a nice little "sorry" note to the neighbors, might not hurt.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
2 Feb 17
I don't think it will happen again, Our neighbors are good ones and so are we.
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@Shellyann36 (11385)
• United States
2 Feb 17
@PainsOnSlate No doubt you are. Glad there are no problems stemming from it.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
27 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate The quiet time in Switzerland is from 10 pm up to 7 am, Saturday and Sunday up to 9 am and you cannot make noise from noon up to 1:30 pm.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
I like the idea of motion lights, I've had them on other homes, we might need to do that.. There is no official quiet time here but we do try to be quiet until daylight...
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
@LadyDuck That's amazing, I've never heard of any place like that. Very interesting.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
22 Jan 17
Never hit that button once and neither had my husband. But, I can use the remote in total darkness...I know by feel where the buttons are that I want to use...my husband has to be looking right at it...
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
Last night I wondered if I locked the car and picked up the key in the dark and couldn't tell which button to use so i went outside and checked the car. I had shut the lights out as I was going to bed and went outside to see how cold it was...Burrrrr
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
27 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate I guess you don't park in a garage.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
@AbbyGreenhill No the garage is full of my slate and the machines I use to cut them up. If it ever snows here this winter we will move stuff around and put one car in and use only the other that will live outside.
@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
22 Jan 17
I want my cars locked too. We have had a lot of fog this past week as well.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Jan 17
I like the fog, it makes everything look so mysterious!
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate It's my favorite type of weather, the thicker the better
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
26 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate Oh that was scary! We don't leave money or any valuable things inside the car either.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
23 Jan 17
Everything needs to be locked these days. Gone are the days when one there was trust.
You hitting the panic button - was it to tell the world that you found your car?
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Jan 17
My husband hit the panic button twice by accident, when I was in the parking lot I couldn't find my car so I hit the button and I followed the sound and drive away...
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@luisadannointed (4171)
• Philippines
30 Jan 17
Your backyard is so wonderful. I hope I can get to a place like your. I want to go to Greece. I hope God will permit.
Anyway I never had a car, but I got alarmed everytime I bump to one of my classmates car and it makes people look at me as if I did a shameful thing. Lol!
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
30 Jan 17
Thank you we love the woods behind our house. I would like to go to Greece too, maybe later this year for a trip. Those alarms on the cars are noisy, you made me laugh.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
28 Jan 17
I hear it once in a while in the afternoon too, my husband's excuse is its dark outside...
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
28 Jan 17
The panic button can be useful, but no one wants to hear that in the early hours of the day.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Jan 17
It has never happened to me, I think because he goes to the W in the dark he just hits the wrong button, the first time he did it it was screaming a long time as he tried to figure out what happened, the second time he stopped it pretty fast...
@paigea (35693)
• Canada
25 Jan 17
@PainsOnSlate A lot of technology is a mystery to me.
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
23 Jan 17
Lovely yard. Kudos to your husband for getting out and about so early but - what an alarm clock!
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
24 Jan 17
He and I both wake up around 6, we don't ever use an alarm because our bodies are used to getting up early, that Panic button is not so good for the neighborhood...
@Juliaacv (48437)
• Canada
22 Jan 17
I have accidentally hit the panic button, but its always been in a public parking lot, never at home.
I can imagine that your neighbours were forgiving since we've all done it by accident.
My button that I often hit is the trunk button, and when I start up the car and see that little icon of open trunk, I think to myself, the next car we buy we'll have to look at the keyfob a little closer and how it fits into our hand so that it isn't accidentally pressed-live and learn!
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
Too funny, we have vans so when the back door is open its hard to miss..
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@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
22 Jan 17
I have hit that panic button & boy it's loud. I also like to keep my car looked when it's outside as it's a habit I developed from years of living in NY. Many of my neighbours not only don't lock their cars but will leave their car windows open all night too.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
We try to remember to lock and the windows are always up, MY husband was a bit embarrassed when he had to admit he didn't lock the car that night and tried to tell me I left the glove box open....
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
22 Jan 17
We live in a rather large neighborhood, we are on the edge of the woods, We know all our neighbors and we enjoy the peace and quiet of the forest.
@DianneN (246849)
• United States
22 Jan 17
We keep two cars in the garage and two in the driveway. Although we live in a quiet neighborhood, we always lock the cars outside. My husband is notorious for setting off the alarms and opening trunks. Lol! All our key fobs are different, so I can't blame him.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
Because we have vans the back door being open could not be missed...We lock them now and now my hubby does the same.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
27 Jan 17
That's what we are doing now, and if I need to I check at night..
