Technology and cold weather may keep me from going into work on Wednesday. It’s hard to do when you  can’t open your car doors, after a snow and sleet storm. This is new to me. When technology and computers run automobiles, there is going to be trouble at some point down the road.

I worked home today because of the bad weather, as did many on the east coast. When I finished, I went out, shoveled a bit, and cleaned my car off for tomorrow. We had an assortment of weather the last 18 hours. Snow, sleet and freezing rain, plus falling temperatures. Not a good combination for trying to get a door open on a car. Technology and cold at its worst. And not having a garage!

I have one of those key pads or smart keys as the owner’s manual likes to call it. Smart?  Well, not so much. I don’t even have a chance with this thing, if I want to try to get my door open. The air temperature was even above freezing for a while. Nothing! I was really hoping to carry out the impossible before dark, since the temperatures tonight are going down into the teens. Everything will just refreeze all over again, including my car doors. Help!!

Now, I use computers . I don’t consider myself totally ignorant, but yet not the tech guru, as some others may be. But if I’d have known I would have had this kind of trouble, I might have thought twice about my purchase. This is not the first time this has happened. The first time was on a weekend. It was a minor inconvenience then, since my job was not involved. Unfortunately, I may have to use my extra day at home because of a technologically challenged SUV door.

I already had to replace the batteries in that smart key. Discovered that only by asking a co-worker who owns the same make of vehicle that I do, just a different model. I’m just to old for this kind of crap. Give me a key that I can just put into the door. And yeah, it has one of those. It didn’t work either. Got a better idea. Let’s just get this weather out of here and have temperatures way above 32 degrees.

So when I am done this blog, I will once again go out and see if I can accomplish a miracle. I’m not holding out any hope for this. Technology, sometimes you just suck. And cold, wet weather, you suck too.