DUMBfounded

Our garage remote has been inoperable for months now... maybe even a year. The battery died and I attempted once  before to buy a new one while grocery shopping only to find out it was the wrong size. So we've been parking the car out on the street for quite some time. The times where we've actually parked in the garage have been a pain. We'll pull up, turn off the car, send someone to unlock the front door, then they have to run the key back to the car so we can start it up again, run back to the house through the front door, take their shoes off ;) , go in to the garage and push the button to open the garage door. It sucks! Today me and Ti FINALLY decided to take a trip to Radio Shack to get a new battery for the remote. When the clerk opened up the remote she looked at the battery and said "Oh, your battery's not dead... it's just upside down."

 

 I didn't even know how to react. She tested the battery to make sure that it was still active and sure enough it was. Since I was already there I decided to buy a new battery for my car remote. We tested that as soon as we walked out of the store... and it worked yay! When we pulled up to the house with our existing battery in the garage remote (now turned the right way) we pushed that magical button... and up went the garage door. Hip hip hooray. I'm an idiot.