I’m an Idoit! Take 1…

It seems that while out at the World Ag Show, someone lost his car key! If that was all it wouldn’t be a big deal but my car key included the controls to my “integrated” car alarm. With no key to deactivate the alarm, I can not get the car out of the garage at DTW without towing it.

When I got home last night, I cabbed it to my house thinking that Better Half had the spare. Turns out it was just a valet key. I decided to try it anyway and took another cab back out to the airport this morning. Guess what….valet key doesn’t deactivate the alarm, so I can’t even get the car out of park let alone drive it. So I call a local VW dealer and they tell me I need to tow it to them so they can deactivate my alarm and then provide me with a new key. UGHHHHHH!!

So, here I sit back at DTW, my car stuck and I waiting for Better Half to pick me up after dropping Lil’ Baird at daycare so I can then go home and turn the whole place upside down to find that freakin’ spare key with alarm controls. If I can’t…then it’s the fee to tow the car to Livonia then having to pay service to deactivate the alarm. I’m easily looking at dropping over $300 (cab rides back and forth, extra parking, towing fee, potential overnight car rental and service fee) all because I couldn’t zip my car key into my briefcase!!!!

P.S. – I’ve labeled this “Take 1″ as I am sure as things move on, I will continue to make bone head mistakes…so consider this part of an ongoing series…