Why is it when the doctors had to cut my first child out of me because her heart beat was dropping I calmly agreed? Why is it when my child turned blue with a fever of 105 degrees I calmly took her to the hospital? When the baby fell and smashed her nose flat and it immediately turned blue I calmly got a bag of ice and called the doctor. I was calm when my van was burguralized.
But ... When I come out the grocery store and my key fob doesn't unlock the car and I use my key to open the door which sets off the alarm when I start the van I freak out. The horn keeps beeping and I start to panic because the key thing isn't working and that is the only way I know to turn off the alarm. And my ice cream is melting. The kids think it is funny that the horn continues to beep. I'm more upset that my ice cream is melting.
I finally pull it together, shut the car off and go back into the store to buy a battery for the alarm button thingy praying that it works or we are going to have to drive home with the horn beeping all the way.
I thought to myself as I was changing that battery why is it so hard to trust God with the little insignificant things that interrupt our day. If I can trust Him with the "big things" why can't I remember that He is in control of everything?
Even batteries and car alarms.
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Doesn't putting the key into the ignition and turning the car on stop the alarm?
Not if you engaged the alarm with the key fob. You have to turn it off with the fob. And my fob wasn't working. And even when I turned the car off the horn kept beeping. I just like to write the word fob.
Yes, the word "fob" is wonderfully playful little word, isn't it?
I am amazed that you cannot cancel the alarm by starting the car with the key. I just cannot get over how strange that is. BTW: when your purse was stolen from the van, did the alarm go off? After re-reading that post, it seems like the answer is no. Or did the alarm go off for so long that it killed the battery?
What's a fob? And by the way, I agree that having one's ice cream melt is something worth getting upset about :) !
The key fob is that little black box on your keychain with the arm, disarm, trunk buttons.
When my van was broken into I locked the door with the door lock button inside the van (if that makes sense?) and not the arm button. So I have been really careful to always use the arm button on the key fob to set the alarm. I didn't realize I had to use the fob to activate the anti-theft device.
The ice cream didn't melt. I guess what they say about packing all the frozen food together works. :)
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